Effects of solution treatment, precipitation hardening, and shot peening on the cavitation erosion resistance of 17‑4PH steel produced by additive and conventional methods.

Aleksander Świetlicki, Mariusz Walczak, Dariusz Chocyk, Mirosław Szala

Abstract read

In one paragraph

Article in Scientific reports, 2026. The graph could read no effect estimate from its abstract, so it casts no vote on the map. Not yet cited in PubMed.

0numbers the graph read from it

0cells of the map it votes in

0citing papers in PubMed

–field-weighted citation impact

1 · What the graph read from it

What it found

Each row is one number read from the abstract, on the scale the paper reported it, with its interval. Left of the dashed line favours the treatment, right favours the comparator. Under each row is the sentence it came from. New to these charts? A ten-minute tutorial.

The abstract states no effect estimate the extractor could read, or names no intervention and outcome on the map, so this paper lights no cell and moves no belief. It is still indexed, cited and linked below.

2 · The registry

The trial behind it

Trials whose registry record cites this paper, or whose number appears in the abstract. A trial that started after this paper was published is citing it as background, not reporting it.

Neither the registry nor the abstract names a trial number. If this is a trial report, that itself is worth knowing.

3 · Its place in the literature

Who cites it

0 citing papers in PubMed.

No citing paper in PubMed yet.

4 · The record

Corrections and comments

PubMed lists nothing against this paper. Absence here is not a guarantee, only a check that was made.

5 · Who and what money

Authors and funding

4 authors.

Aleksander ŚwietlickiDepartment of Materials Engineering, Faculty of Mechanical Engineering, Lublin University of Technology, Nadbystrzycka 36D, 20-618, Lublin, Poland. aleksander.swietlicki@pollub.edu.pl.

Mariusz WalczakDepartment of Materials Engineering, Faculty of Mechanical Engineering, Lublin University of Technology, Nadbystrzycka 36D, 20-618, Lublin, Poland.

Dariusz ChocykDepartment of Applied Physics, Faculty of Mechanical Engineering, Lublin University of Technology, Nadbystrzycka 36, 20-618, Lublin, Poland.

Mirosław SzalaDepartment of Materials Engineering, Faculty of Mechanical Engineering, Lublin University of Technology, Nadbystrzycka 36D, 20-618, Lublin, Poland.

Funding

Ministerstwo Edukacji i Nauki FD-20/IM-5/127

6 · The paper itself

Abstract

17-4PH stainless steel is widely used in hydraulic components exposed to cavitation, yet its cavitation erosion resistance (CER) depends strongly on both the manufacturing route and the applied post-processing. This study compares the CER of conventionally processed and DMLS-fabricated 17-4PH steel after solution treatment, precipitation hardening, and shot peening with glass, ceramic, and steel media. The novelty of the work lies in the systematic comparison of these post-processing routes across both manufacturing methods, supported by a structure-property analysis of hardness, surface morphology, phase composition, crystallite size, and microstrain-derived estimated stress magnitude. The DMLS material showed consistently higher CER than the conventional steel. The best performance was observed for the precipitation-hardened and ceramic-shot-peened DMLS specimen, which exhibited an erosion rate of 1.49 µm h

Indexed as

Cavitation erosionDMLSHeat treatmentPrecipitation hardeningShot peeningSurface treatment

Identifiers

PMID42243362

DOI10.1038/s41598-026-55854-6

PMCPMC13473491

What OpenQuestion holds

Textmetadata

Read underepoch 390

Registered trials

None linked

Read under generation 80e0d062 · epoch 390. Bibliography from PubMed, PubMed Central and OpenAlex; grants from NIH RePORTER; trial links from ClinicalTrials.gov; estimates, votes and beliefs from the OpenQuestion graph.