Manufacturing Technology 2024, 24(4):608-617 | DOI: 10.21062/mft.2024.066

Mechanical Properties, Structure and Machinability of the H13 Tool Steel Produced By Material Extrusion

Martin Maly ORCID...1,2, Stepan Kolomy ORCID...1, Radek Kasan ORCID...1,2, Lukas Bartl ORCID...1,2, Josef Sedlak ORCID...1, Jan Zouhar ORCID...1
1 Institute of Manufacturing Technology, Faculty of Mechanical Engineering, Brno University of Technology, Technická 2896/2, 616 69 Brno, Czech Republic
2 Central European Institute of Technology (CEITEC), Brno University of Technology, Purkyòova 656/123, 612 00 Brno, Czech Republic

The study focuses on an evaluation of mechanical properties of the H13 tool steel manufactured by the material extrusion and further comparison with conventionally produced material. Notably, for achieving sufficient surface quality of functional parts further post-processing is required. Thus, a comprehensive investigation, encompassing hardness, ultimate tensile strength (UTS) and yield strength (YS) measurement, microstructure, and machinability was performed. The material extrusion, an increasingly utilized additive manufacturing (AM) technique, offers a viable alternative to the prevalent laser powder bed fusion (LPBF) methods. This method enables a creation of complex geometries using various materials. The investigation revealed that the horizontal orientation of parts yielded the highest mechanical properties, reaching the ultimate tensile strength of approximately 1200 MPa. Additionally, the material exhibited the hardness of 47 HRC in the as-built state. The conventionally produced steel resulted in the higher UTS and YS in comparison to the AM material. The machinability of the as-built material in regard to cutting forces and surface roughness was also evaluated Lower surface roughness was achieved by decreasing feed per tooth. Optically measure material porosity was 6.13 % with maximum pore size 7.43 µm. The primary objective of this research is to optimize the mechanical properties of H13 tool steel post-printing, with a broader aim to apply the gained insights to improve other materials produced by the material extrusion.

Keywords: Material extrusion, H13 tool steel, Additive manufacturing, Microstructure, Mechanical properties
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This research study was supported by the grant “Modern technologies for processing advanced materials used for interdisciplinary applications”, FSI-S-22-7957. This work has been performed in the project RICAIP: Research and Innovation Centre on Advanced Industrial Production which has received funding from the European Union's Horizon 2020 research and innovation program under grant agreement No 857306 and from the Ministry of Education, Youth and Sports under OP RDE grant agreement No CZ.02.1.01/0.0/0.0/17_043/0010085

Received: February 18, 2024; Revised: July 3, 2024; Accepted: July 8, 2024; Prepublished online: July 9, 2024; Published: September 1, 2024  Show citation

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Maly M, Kolomy S, Kasan R, Bartl L, Sedlak J, Zouhar J. Mechanical Properties, Structure and Machinability of the H13 Tool Steel Produced By Material Extrusion. Manufacturing Technology. 2024;24(4):608-617. doi: 10.21062/mft.2024.066.
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