Characterization of Laser Peening- Induced Effects on a Biomedical Ti6al4v Alloy by Thermoelectric Means
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View metadata, citation and similar papers at core.ac.uk brought to you by CORE provided by Digital.CSIC Characterization of laser peening- induced effects on a biomedical Ti6Al4V alloy by thermoelectric means Hector Carreón Sandra Barriuso Juan Antonio Porro Jose Luis González-Carrasco José Luis Ocaña Downloaded From: http://opticalengineering.spiedigitallibrary.org/ on 09/23/2015 Terms of Use: http://spiedigitallibrary.org/ss/TermsOfUse.aspx Optical Engineering 53(12), 122502 (December 2014) Characterization of laser peening-induced effects on a biomedical Ti6Al4V alloy by thermoelectric means Hector Carreón,a,* Sandra Barriuso,b Juan Antonio Porro,c Jose Luis González-Carrasco,b,d and José Luis Ocañac aInstituto de Investigaciones Metalúrgicas, UMSNH-IIM, Edif. “U” C.U., 58000-888 Morelia, Mexico bCentro Nacional de Investigaciones Metalúrgicas, CENIM-CSIC, Avenida Gregorio del Amo 8, 28040 Madrid, Spain cUniversidad Politécnica de Madrid, Ctr. Láser UPM, 28040 Madrid, Spain dCentro Investigación Biomédica en Red en Bioingeniería, Biomateriales y Nanomedicina, 28029 Madrid, Spain Abstract. Laser peening has recently emerged as a useful technique to overcome detrimental effects associ- ated with other well-known surface modification processes such as shot peening or grit blasting used in the biomedical field. It is worthwhile to notice that besides the primary residual stress effect, thermally induced effects might also cause subtle surface and subsurface microstructural changes that might influence corrosion resistance and fatigue strength of structural components. In this work, plates of Ti-6Al-4V alloy of 7 mm in thick- ness were modified by laser peening without using a sacrificial outer layer. Irradiation by a Q-switched Nd-YAG laser (9.4-ns pulse length) working at the fundamental 1064-nm wavelength at 2.8 J∕pulse and with water as a confining medium was used. Laser pulses with a 1.5-mm diameter at an equivalent overlapping density of 5000 cm−2 were applied. Attempts to analyze the global-induced effects after laser peening were addressed by using the contacting and noncontacting thermoelectric power techniques. © 2014 Society of Photo-Optical Instrumentation Engineers (SPIE) [DOI: 10.1117/1.OE.53.12.122502] Keywords: laser shock peening; thermoelectric measurements; Ti-6Al-4V; biomaterial. Paper 140177SSP received Jan. 29, 2014; revised manuscript received Mar. 21, 2014; accepted for publication Apr. 8, 2014; pub- lished online Jun. 11, 2014. 1 Introduction including shot size and shape, velocity, coverage, impinge- Titanium and its alloys are extensively used in the aeronau- ment angle, etc. Because each shot impacts the surface at a tics, medical, and engineering industries due to their intrinsic random location, peening for sufficient time to achieve uni- form surface coverage results in many multiple impacts pro- properties, such as light weight, high strength to weight ratio, 1–5 corrosion resistance, biocompatibility, and excellent high- ducing a highly cold worked surface layer. Gravity shot temperature properties. Surface engineering of titanium peening utilizes the same mechanism as conventional air- alloy components, used as biomaterials, provides a means blast but employs fewer impacts by larger shot, resulting by which the desirable bulk properties are retained in con- in a less cold worked surface layer. In conventional roller junction with enhanced fatigue strength. In addition, efforts burnishing, a hard cylindrical roller is pressed into the sur- to improve the osseointegration, fixation, and stability of tita- face of an axisymmetric work piece with sufficient force to nium base implants have been addressed by creating a rough deform the near surface layers. Roller burnishing is per- topography that increases the surface area available for bone/ formed with multiple passes, usually under increasing implant apposition. Various surface processing technologies load for improved surface finish and deliberate cold working are applied in order to achieve this goal of surface treatment of the surface. Fatigue enhancement is attributed to improved finish, increased yield strength due to cold working, and the modification. Almost all existing methods of surface development of a compressive surface layer. In conventional enhancement are currently available to develop a layer of ball burnishing, a fixed (nonrotating) ball is held in contact compressive residual stress following mechanical tensile with the moving work piece surface under a normal force deformation. The methods differ primarily in how the surface sufficient to deform the surface of the work piece. A smooth is deformed (roughness) and in the magnitude and form of surface is achieved, but with extensive cold work and the the resulting residual stress and cold work (plastic deforma- potential for surface damage and residual tensile stress. tion) distributions developed in the surface layers. The high friction and shear forces produced can cause sur- For example, conventional air-blast shot peening is gen- face damage even when lubricants are used. erally applied to steel, titanium, and nickel alloys. High Laser shock processing (also known as laser peening), an velocity impact of each particle of shot produces a dimple alternative surface processing technology, has been success- with a region of compression in the treated zone. Typical fully applied for surface enhancement of titanium alloys.6,7 compressive residual stress distributions reach a maximum Irradiation by a Q-switched high-power laser pulse induces approaching the alloy yield strength, and extend to a high pressure plasma (several gigapascals), which produces depth of 0.05 to 0.5 mm. The magnitude of compression high amplitude shock waves.8 To protect irradiated surfaces achieved depends primarily upon the mechanical properties from thermal rise, sacrificial layers can be used. Irradiating of the alloy. The depth of the compressive layer and the water-immersed surfaces (1 to 10-mm water thickness) en- degree of cold working depend upon the peening parameters, able a factor 5 to 10 intensification of the shock amplitude by *Address all correspondence to: Hector Carreon, E-mail: [email protected] 0091-3286/2014/$25.00 © 2014 SPIE Optical Engineering 122502-1 December 2014 • Vol. 53(12) Downloaded From: http://opticalengineering.spiedigitallibrary.org/ on 09/23/2015 Terms of Use: http://spiedigitallibrary.org/ss/TermsOfUse.aspx Carreón et al.: Characterization of laser peening-induced effects on a biomedical Ti6Al4V alloy. a trapping-like effect on the plasma, although this method along the sample. The Seebeck coefficient, S, is defined as has the practical disadvantage of possible premature water the ratio between the voltage, ΔV, developed along the dielectric breakdown and is normally substituted by a sample and the temperature difference, ΔT, given by water jet curtain method.9 Laser shock processing produces S ¼ ΔV∕ΔT as shown in Fig. 1(a). a layer of compression of comparable magnitude to shot Recently, this method was used in a noncontacting way peening, but much deeper with less cold works without com- by detecting the magnetic field produced by thermoelectric promising the surface roughness. Moreover, this process is currents in metals; this is the called noncontacting thermo- not restricted by component geometry, as is the case with electric technique.16–22 Let us assume that we have a defect or deep rolling. imperfection in an otherwise homogeneous material and a Recently, experimental results reported by Carreon temperature gradient is established throughout the specimen. et al.10–12 indicate that the stress-dependence of the thermo- Because of this temperature gradient, different points at the electric power (TEP) in metals produces sufficient contrast to boundary between the defect or imperfection and the host detect and quantitatively characterize regions under com- material will be at different temperatures, therefore at differ- pressive residual stress based on their thermoelectric contrast ent thermoelectric potentials. These minor thermoelectric with respect to the surrounding intact material. Also, it was potential differences will drive local thermoelectric currents demonstrated that the thermoelectric method is entirely around the affected area producing a flux magnetic density insensitive to surface topography while it is uniquely sensi- given by B, which can be detected in a noncontacting way by tive to subtle variations in thermoelectric properties, which a high sensitive magnetometer as shown in Fig. 1(b). This are associated with the different material effects induced by technique was originally suggested for the detection of met- different surface modification treatments. The goal of this allic inclusions in the material but was subsequently shown research work is to use two nondestructive thermoelectric to be sensitive enough to sense subtle changes in the TEP of techniques, the noncontacting and contacting TEP measure- metals due to plastic deformation and the presence of ments, to sense the subsurface changes induced by laser residual stresses.21,22 peening in a metallic biomedical Ti-6Al-4V alloy. 3 Material and Thermoelectric Methods 2 TEP Phenomena In this section, the experimental setup and the procedure Thermoelectricity is caused by coupled transport of heat and used to detect and quantify subsurface changes on Ti-6Al- electricity in metals, which leads to a number of interesting 4V alloy by thermoelectric means will be described. A sur- phenomena,