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US 11,458,537 · App. 16/495,949 · Granted Oct 4, 2022

Heat treatment method for additive manufactured Ni-base alloy object, method for manufacturing additive manufactured Ni-base alloy object, Ni-base alloy powder for additive manufactured object, and additive manufactured Ni-base alloy object

Inventors: Masaki Taneike (Tokyo, JP); Kosuke Fujiwara (Tokyo, JP); Hidetaka Haraguchi (Tokyo, JP); Shuji Tanigawa (Tokyo, JP); Nobuhiko Saito (Tokyo, JP)
Assignee: MITSUBISHI HEAVY INDUSTRIES, LTD.
B22F3/24C22C1/0433C22C19/051C22F1/10B22F2003/248B22F2301/15B33Y10/00B33Y70/00B33Y80/00
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Patent No.
US 11,458,537
App. No.
16/495,949
Granted
Oct 4, 2022
Kind
B2
Abstract

A heat treatment method for an additive manufactured object formed of a laminate-molded Ni-base alloy includes: a heat treatment step for carbide precipitation optimization of heating the additive manufactured object for 1 hour or longer and 100 hours or shorter at a temperature which is equal to or higher than a temperature T1 determined by Formula (1) according to amounts of component elements and is equal to or lower than 1,350° C.; and an aging treatment step of heating the additive manufactured object for 1 to 30 hours at a temperature of 800° C. to 950° C. after the heat treatment step for carbide precipitation optimization. T1 (° C.)=177×Ni (%)+176×Co (%)+172×Cr (%)+178×Mo (%)+174×W (%)+171×Al (%)+170×Ti (%)+168×Ta (%)+163×Nb (%)+307×C (%)−16259  (1)

Claims (37)

1. A heat treatment method for an additive manufactured Ni-base alloy object, the method comprising:

a providing step of providing an additive manufactured object formed of a Ni-base alloy laminate-molded into a predetermined shape, a heat treatment step for carbide precipitation optimization of heating the additive manufactured object for 0.5 hours or longer and 100 hours or shorter at a temperature which has a lower limit T1 that is equal to or higher than 1,255° C. and upper limit that is equal to or lower than 1,350° C.; and

an aging heat treatment step of heating the additive manufactured object for 1 to 30 hours at a temperature of 800° C. to 950° C. after the heat treatment step for carbide precipitation optimization,

wherein the lower limit T1 is determined by Formula (1):

T1 (° C.)=177×Ni (%)+176×Co (%)+172×Cr (%)+178×Mo (%)+174×W (%)+171×Al (%)+170×Ti (%)+168×Ta (%)+163×Nb (%)+307×C (%)−16259  (1), and

wherein the Ni-base alloy contains, by mass %,

Co: 15% to 25%,

Cr: 10% to 22%,

Mo: 0% to 3.5%,

W: 0.5% to 10%,

Al: 1.0% to 4.0%,

Ti: 0% to 5.0%,

Ta: 0% to 4.0%,

Nb: 0% to 2.0%,

C: 0.03% to 0.2%,

B: 0.001% to 0.02%,

Zr: 0% to 0.1%, and

a balance consisting of Ni and unavoidable impurities.

2. The heat treatment method for an additive manufactured Ni-base alloy object according to claim 1 ,

wherein the Ni-base alloy contains, by mass %,

Al (%)+0.5×Ti (%) of 1% to 5%, and

W (%)+0.5×Mo (%) of 0.5% to 10%.

3. The heat treatment method for an additive manufactured Ni-base alloy object according to claim 1 ,

wherein a total content of Ti, Ta, and Nb in the Ni-base alloy is 10.0% or less by mass %.

4. The heat treatment method for an additive manufactured Ni-base alloy object according to claim 1 , further comprising:

a solution heat treatment step of heating the additive manufactured object for 0.5 to 10 hours at a temperature of 1,150° C. to 1,250° C. between the heat treatment step for carbide precipitation optimization and the aging heat treatment step.

5. The heat treatment method for an additive manufactured Ni-base alloy object according to claim 1 ,

wherein a heat treatment for stress removal is performed on the additive manufactured object before the heat treatment step for carbide precipitation optimization.

6. The heat treatment method for an additive manufactured Ni-base alloy object according to claim 1 ,

wherein a HIP treatment is performed on the additive manufactured object after the heat treatment step for carbide precipitation optimization and before the aging heat treatment step.

7. The heat treatment method for an additive manufactured Ni-base alloy object according to claim 1 ,

wherein a stabilization heat treatment is performed after the heat treatment step for carbide precipitation optimization and before the aging heat treatment step.

8. A heat treatment method for an additive manufactured Ni-base alloy object,

comprising carrying out the heat treatment method for an additive manufactured Ni-base alloy object according to claim 1 to precipitate one or more M 23 C 6 carbides on average at grain boundaries per 10 μm of grain boundary length.

9. A method for manufacturing an additive manufactured Ni-base alloy object, the method comprising:

an additive manufacturing step of forming an additive manufactured object formed of a Ni-base alloy on a substrate by repeating a process of melting a Ni-base alloy powder and forming a rapidly solidified layer on the substrate; and

subsequently subjecting the additive manufactured object to the heat treatment method for an additive manufactured Ni-base alloy object according to claim 1 .

Assignments (1)
ASSIGNMENT OF ASSIGNOR'S INTEREST Recorded Sep 20, 2019
From: TANEIKE, MASAKI; FUJIWARA, KOSUKE; HARAGUCHI, HIDETAKA; TANIGAWA, SHUJI; SAITO, NOBUHIKO
To: MITSUBISHI HEAVY INDUSTRIES, LTD.
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Priority Claims (1)
JP JP2017-064847 · Mar 29, 2017 · national
Continuity (1)
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