Wear Behavior of Austenitic Stainless Steel 308L Fabricated by Wire Arc Additive Manufacturing
Saleh Alzughaibi, Youssef Alammari, Abdulrahman Alrumayh, Mohammed T. Alamoudi, Faisal J. Alzahrani, Hussam H. Noor, Khalid Alqosaibi · 2026
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Saleh Alzughaibi and coauthors test wear of additively built stainless steel in a 2026 study. Wire arc building creates large metal parts layer by layer, leaving mixed internal structures. Disks of the steel slid against a hard ball under loads and speeds that spanned wide ranges.
Wear volume climbed steeply as load increased. Sliding speed mattered far less across the tested range. Friction eased as load rose toward a middle value, then depended on speed at the highest load. Microscopy showed mixed ferrite and austenite patterns from the building process. Engineers using printed steel parts learn that load control matters most for wear life.
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| CREATOR | Saleh Alzughaibi, Youssef Alammari, Abdulrahman Alrumayh, Mohammed T. Alamoudi, Faisal J. Alzahrani, Hussam H. Noor, Khalid Alqosaibi |
|---|---|
| YEAR | 2026 |
| COLLECTION | PAPERS |
| FORMAT | TXT |
| FILE SIZE | 27 KB |
| VERSION | 1.0 |
| LICENSE | CC BY 4.0 |
| RIGHTS | CC BY |
| SOURCE | Europe PMC |