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With ER2319 and B4C powder as feedstocks and additives, respectively, a wire arc additive manufacturing (WAAM) system based on double-pulse melting electrode inert gas shielded welding (DP-MIG) was used to fabricate single-pass multilayer 2319 aluminum alloy. The results showed that, compared with additive manufacturing component without B4C, the addition of which can effectively reduce the grain size (from 43 µm to 25 µm) of the tissue in the deposited layer area and improve its mechanical properties (from 231 MPa to 286 MPa). Meanwhile, the mechanical properties are better in the transverse than in the longitudinal direction. Moreover, the strengthening mechanism of B4C on the mechanical properties of aluminum alloy additive manufacturing mainly includes dispersion strengthening from fine and uniform B4C granular reinforcing phases and fine grain strengthening from the grain refinement of B4C. These findings shed light on the B4C induced grain refinement mechanism and improvement of WAAM 2319 Al alloy.
ABSTRACT
A new focusing structure is proposed, consisting of periodic array air holes in silicon and based on two-dimensional (2D) photonic crystal (PC) with negative refraction and subwavelength imaging characteristics. The light radiating from a point source can form a subwavelength imaging of which the half-width reaches 0.47λ through a wedge PC. Due to the influence of the aberration and evanescent field, the symmetry plane of the image is inside the structure rather than the boundary. In addition, moving the PC by 2 µm to the left horizontally, the image moves by 3.57 µm and the half-width of each image is less than the half-wavelength in this process.
