

Moreover, it was found that the carbon content has a large influence on the solidification behavior, and the manganese content also affects the solidification sequence. Through this study, it was found that Fe-Mn-C-Al TWIP steel may have a solidification sequence with high crack sensitivity, belonging to hypo-peritectic steel. Based on this, the crack sensitivity of TWIP steel is further determined. In this study, differential thermal analysis (DTA) method was used, combined with professional thermodynamic software ThermoCalc to analyze the solidification behavior for Fe-Mn-C-Al alloys with different chemical compositions. However, the crack sensitivity of this new TWIP steel has not been reported yet. It has an excellent combination of elongation and tensile strength, as well as good anti-delayed fracture property.

The overall solidification cracking susceptibility and freezing range was highest for the 26 wt.% P91 alloy amongst the mixed compositions between P91 steel and 740H superalloy, proving that solidification characteristics play a major role in alloy design for additive manufacturing.Fe-Mn-C-Al alloy is a new steel grade of TWIP steel developed in recent years. From Scheil simulations, it was deduced that pronounced segregation of Nb and Cu within the cracks increased the solidification range by suppressing the solidus temperature. The top region, with the highest cooling rate, has the highest solidification cracking susceptibility and is in good agreement with the experimentally observed crack length. With inputs from experiments, such as secondary dendrite arm spacing, the DICTRA (diffusion-controlled transformations) module within the Thermo-Calc software was used to model location-specific solidification cracking susceptibility. Microstructure characterization revealed intergranular solidification cracks, which increased in length along with the build height. An alloy derived from a mixture of 26 wt.% P91 steel and 74 wt.% Inconel 740H, with high configurational and total entropy, was fabricated using wire-arc additive manufacturing. In this work, location-specific solidification cracking susceptibility has been investigated using an integrated computational materials engineering (ICME) approach for a graded alloy formed by mixing P91 steel and Inconel 740H superalloy. Solidification cracking is a major obstacle when joining dissimilar alloys using additive manufacturing.
