Metal additive manufacturing of damage-controlled elements for structural protection of steel members

This paper develops hybrid steel members by integrating additively manufactured, ultra-lightweight, damage-controlled elements (DCEs) into hot-rolled structural steel members. This approach relies on segmenting a structural member into distinct sections; one or two segments are enlarged to be capaci...

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Main Authors: Hamdy Farhoud, Islam Mantawy
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Language:English
Published: Elsevier 2024-11-01
Series:Materials & Design
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Online Access:http://www.sciencedirect.com/science/article/pii/S0264127524008037
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description This paper develops hybrid steel members by integrating additively manufactured, ultra-lightweight, damage-controlled elements (DCEs) into hot-rolled structural steel members. This approach relies on segmenting a structural member into distinct sections; one or two segments are enlarged to be capacity protected; however, another end or middle DCE segment is optimized to emulate the conventional member’s strength and stiffness. A small-scale DCE was topologically optimized and then additively manufactured using a powder bed fusion technique through a direct metal laser sintering process of 17-4PH stainless steel and then was experimentally tested to study the buckling behavior under compression. The experimental testing of the optimized DCE shows a compressive strength of 81,000 times the specimen’s weight with stable post-peak buckling behavior. Numerical simulation confirms experimental results, showing a good correlation in fracture energy. A parametric study on four DCE specimens, scaled up by three, four, five, and six times, was performed and compared to hollow structural sections (HSS) of A500 Gr. C in tensile and compression strengths. The numerical simulation shows a linear relation between the weight ratio and HSS length. Additionally, numerical simulation of conventional member, DCE (scaled by three), and three hybrid members revealed that failure occurred in DCE as intended.
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spelling doaj-art-e591a97aba814b28aab4db57b93fa61b2025-08-20T02:30:42ZengElsevierMaterials & Design0264-12752024-11-0124711342810.1016/j.matdes.2024.113428Metal additive manufacturing of damage-controlled elements for structural protection of steel membersHamdy Farhoud0Islam Mantawy1Civil and Environmental Engineering Department, Henry M. Rowan College of Engineering, Rowan University, Glassboro, NJ 08028, USACorresponding author.; Civil and Environmental Engineering Department, Henry M. Rowan College of Engineering, Rowan University, Glassboro, NJ 08028, USAThis paper develops hybrid steel members by integrating additively manufactured, ultra-lightweight, damage-controlled elements (DCEs) into hot-rolled structural steel members. This approach relies on segmenting a structural member into distinct sections; one or two segments are enlarged to be capacity protected; however, another end or middle DCE segment is optimized to emulate the conventional member’s strength and stiffness. A small-scale DCE was topologically optimized and then additively manufactured using a powder bed fusion technique through a direct metal laser sintering process of 17-4PH stainless steel and then was experimentally tested to study the buckling behavior under compression. The experimental testing of the optimized DCE shows a compressive strength of 81,000 times the specimen’s weight with stable post-peak buckling behavior. Numerical simulation confirms experimental results, showing a good correlation in fracture energy. A parametric study on four DCE specimens, scaled up by three, four, five, and six times, was performed and compared to hollow structural sections (HSS) of A500 Gr. C in tensile and compression strengths. The numerical simulation shows a linear relation between the weight ratio and HSS length. Additionally, numerical simulation of conventional member, DCE (scaled by three), and three hybrid members revealed that failure occurred in DCE as intended.http://www.sciencedirect.com/science/article/pii/S0264127524008037Metal additive manufacturingDamage controlled elementBucklingFailure mechanismsNumerical analysisOptimization
spellingShingle Hamdy Farhoud
Islam Mantawy
Metal additive manufacturing of damage-controlled elements for structural protection of steel members
Materials & Design
Metal additive manufacturing
Damage controlled element
Buckling
Failure mechanisms
Numerical analysis
Optimization
title Metal additive manufacturing of damage-controlled elements for structural protection of steel members
title_full Metal additive manufacturing of damage-controlled elements for structural protection of steel members
title_fullStr Metal additive manufacturing of damage-controlled elements for structural protection of steel members
title_full_unstemmed Metal additive manufacturing of damage-controlled elements for structural protection of steel members
title_short Metal additive manufacturing of damage-controlled elements for structural protection of steel members
title_sort metal additive manufacturing of damage controlled elements for structural protection of steel members
topic Metal additive manufacturing
Damage controlled element
Buckling
Failure mechanisms
Numerical analysis
Optimization
url http://www.sciencedirect.com/science/article/pii/S0264127524008037
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