Particularly in the aerospace industry and its applications, recast layers and microcracks in base materials are considered to be undesirable side effects of the laser beam machining process, and can have a significant influence on the resulting material behavior and its properties. The paper deals with the evaluation of the affected areas of the Inconel 718 nickel-base superalloy after its drilling by a laser beam. In addition, measurements and analyses of the mechanical properties were performed to investigate how these material properties were affected. It is supposed that the mechanical properties of the base material will be negatively affected by this accompanying machining process phenomenon. As a verification method of the final mechanical properties of the material, static uniaxial tension tests were performed on experimental flat shape samples made of the same material (Inconel 718) and three different thicknesses (0.5/1.0/1.6 mm) which best represented the practical needs of aerospace sheet metal applications. There was one hole that was drilled with an angle of under 70° in the middle of the sample length. Additionally, there were several sets of samples for each material thickness that were drilled by both conventional and nonconventional methods to emphasize the effect of the recast layer on the base material. In total, 192 samples were evaluated within the experiment. Moreover, different tensile testing temperatures (room as 23 °C and elevated as 550 °C) were determined for all the circumstances of the individual experiments to simulate real operation load material behavior. As a result, the dependencies between the amount of the recast layer and the length of the microcracks observed after the material was machined by laser beam, and the decrease in the mechanical properties of the base material, were determined.

Department of Machining Assembly and Engineering Metrology Faculty of Mechanical Engineering VSB Technical University of Ostrava 708 00 Ostrava Czech Republic

Honeywell International s r o 148 00 Prague Czech Republic

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