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    RESIDUAL STRESS AND DEFORMATION ANALYSIS OF INCONEL 718 ACROSS VARYING OVERHANGS IN LASER POWDER BLOWN DIRECTED ENERGY DEPOSITION
    (University of Texas at Austin, 2023) Hernandez, A.J.; Garcia, D.; Watanabe, K.I.; Gradl, P.R.; Wheeler, K.; Hafiychuk, Halyna; Wicker, R.B.; Medina, F.
    Any metal that is subjected to rapid heat and cooling will undergo the development of residual stresses. As they experience intense temperature fluctuations, this will consequently alter the way the material will behave. This issue proves to be of great concern within additive manufacturing. That said, the presence of temperature fluctuations is more prominent in Directed energy deposition (DED), whereas other methods of manufacturing are more prominent in the pre- or post- printing process. This in turn means the deformation, as well as the redistribution of the residual stresses within pieces, are subject to variance by several process parameters set during a print. By using the Inconel 718 alloy feedstock in RPMI’s Laser Powder Directed Energy Deposition (LP-DED) printer, a series of coupons with four different overhang angles and laser power outputs will determine how these changes thermo-mechanically affect the prints through the use of FEA simulations and scans.