Research Article

Titanium Alloy Repair with Wire-Feed Electron Beam Additive Manufacturing Technology

Table 4

Average Vickers microhardness, 500 g load.

Specimen conditionPlaneVickers hardness, HVBulk material hardness, HV

PM (as-received)X-Y322 ± 15322 ± 13
X-Z320 ± 11
Y-Z324 ± 14

PM (SRed)X-Y314 ± 12314 ± 14
X-Z310 ± 14
Y-Z317 ± 15

As-depositedX-Y316 ± 9319 ± 11
X-Z319 ± 12
Y-Z322 ± 11

SRedX-Y307 ± 13304 ± 14
X-Z304 ± 16
Y-Z302 ± 13