Thermal effect on the microstructure of the lattice structure Cu-10Sn alloy fabricated through selective laser melting
Abstract Cu-10Sn alloy with body-center-cubic (BCC) lattice structure was fabricated through selective laser melting (SLM). The geometry of SLMed BCC lattice Cu-10Sn alloy (rod diammeter ∼300 μm, length ∼700 μm) was in good agreement with the design model. Similar with the nearly full density Cu-10Sn alloy, columnar also constituted the majority parts of the lattice structure Cu-10Sn, but exhibited various morphologies due to the different grain growth orientation under thermal effect. The gowth orientation of columnar grain in the rods oriented to the as-fabricated layer due to the higher thermal conductivity of the as-fabricated layers.