About this Abstract | 
  
   
    | Meeting | 
    2025 TMS Annual Meeting & Exhibition
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    | Symposium 
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    Magnesium Technology 2025
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    | Presentation Title | 
    Precipitate Strengthening Design Strategy for Mg-RE Alloy Manufactured by LPBF | 
  
   
    | Author(s) | 
    Chengwei  Zang, Dikai  Guan | 
  
   
    | On-Site Speaker (Planned) | 
    Chengwei  Zang | 
  
   
    | Abstract Scope | 
    
With the growing trend of industrial intelligence and pollution reduction, laser powder bed fusion (LPBF) has great potential for fabricating high-performance Mg alloy components with complex shapes. The extremely fast cooling rate of the LPBF process contributes to rapidly solidified non-equilibrium microstructure with fine grains and allows the addition of rare earth (RE) elements out of equilibrium saturation. Mg-RE series alloys with gadolinium (Gd) and yttrium (Y) as the main additives are considered to be able to achieve high strength by significant precipitation strengthening that is ordinarily realized through a solution heat treatment and a subsequent aging treatment in order to enable the precipitation of nanoscale β′ from supersaturated solid solution. Here we proposed a design method for optimise the composition of printed Mg alloy to achieve high precipitate strength. | 
  
   
    | Proceedings Inclusion? | 
    Planned:  | 
  
 
    | Keywords | 
    Additive Manufacturing, Magnesium, Modeling and Simulation |