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    Effect of Post-weld Heat Treatment on Microstructure and Mechanical Properties of Laser Beam Welded TiAl-based Alloy

    Post-weld heat treatment is carried out on the laser beam welded γ-TiAl-based alloy Ti-48Al-1Cr-1.5Nb-1Mn-0.2Si-0.5B (at. pct). The macro/microstructure and mechanical properties of both as-welded and heat-treate...

    Jie Liu, Volker Ventzke, Peter Staron in Metallurgical and Materials Transactions A (2014)

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    Laser Weldability of High-Strength Al-Zn Alloys and Its Improvement by the Use of an Appropriate Filler Material

    Heat-treatable Al-Zn alloys are promising candidates for use as structural lightweight materials in automotive and aircraft applications. This is mainly due to their high strength-to-density ratio in compariso...

    Josephin Enz, Stefan Riekehr, Volker Ventzke in Metallurgical and Materials Transactions A (2016)

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    Process Optimization of Dual-Laser Beam Welding of Advanced Al-Li Alloys Through Hot Cracking Susceptibility Modeling

    Laser welding of advanced Al-Li alloys has been developed to meet the increasing demand for light-weight and high-strength aerospace structures. However, welding of high-strength Al-Li alloys can be problemat...

    Yingtao Tian, Joseph D. Robson in Metallurgical and Materials Transactions A (2016)

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    Phase Transformations During Solidification of a Laser-Beam-Welded TiAl Alloy—An In Situ Synchrotron Study

    An in situ highly time-resolved, high-energy X-ray diffraction investigation was carried out to observe the phase transformations of a TiAl alloy during laser beam welding. The diffraction patterns are recorded e...

    Jie Liu, Peter Staron, Stefan Riekehr in Metallurgical and Materials Transactions A (2016)

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    Phase Transformation and Residual Stress in a Laser Beam Spot-Welded TiAl-Based Alloy

    The microstructure, chemical composition, residual stress, and lattice parameter evolution of the welding zone (WZ) and heat-affected zone (HAZ) of a laser-beam-welded TiAl-based alloy were investigated. It wa...

    Jie Liu, Peter Staron, Stefan Riekehr in Metallurgical and Materials Transactions A (2016)