TY - JOUR ID - 14740 TI - Nanoindentation Shows Uniform Local Mechanical Properties Across Melt Pools And Layers Produced By Selective Laser Melting Of AlSi 10Mg Alloy JO - Advanced Materials Letters JA - AML LA - en SN - 0976-3961 AU - M. Everitt, Nicola AU - T. Aboulkhair, Nesma AU - Maskery, Ian AU - J. Tuck, Chris AU - Ashcroft, Ian AD - Y1 - 2016 PY - 2016 VL - 7 IS - 1 SP - 13 EP - 16 KW - nanoindentation KW - Additive Manufacturing KW - aluminium alloy.  DO - 10.5185/amlett.2016.6171 N2 - Single track and single layer AlSi 10Mg has been produced by selective laser melting (SLM) of alloy powder on an AlSi12 cast substrate. The SLM technique produced a cellular-dendritic ultra-fined grained microstructure. Chemical composition mapping and nanoindentation showed higher hardness in the SLM material compared to its cast counterpart.  Importantly, although there was some increase of grain size at the edge of melt pools, nanoindentation showed that the hardness (i.e. yield strength) of the material was uniform across overlapping tracks. This is attributed to the very fine grain size and homogeneous distribution of Si throughout the SLM material.  UR - https://aml.iaamonline.org/article_14740.html L1 - https://aml.iaamonline.org/article_14740_9fcd4619aae2f597fdad83fabaa8d61b.pdf ER -