In recent years, additive manufacturing of products made from 5000 series alloys has grown in popularity for marine and automotive applications. At the same time, little research has been aimed at determining the permissible load ranges and areas of application, especially in comparison with materials obtained by traditional methods. In this work, we compared the mechanical properties of aluminum alloy 5056 produced by wire-arc additive technology and rolling. Structural analysis of the material was carried out using EBSD and EDX. Tensile tests under quasi-static loading and impact toughness tests under impact loading were also carried out. SEM was used to examine the fracture surface of the materials during these tests. The mechanical properties of the materials under quasi-static loading conditions exhibit a striking similarity. Specifically, the yield stress ${\mathsf{\sigma }}_{0.2}$ was measured at 128 MPa for the industrially manufactured AA5056_IM and 111 MPa for the AA5056_AM. In contrast, impact toughness tests showed that AA5056_AM KCV_full was 190 kJ/m², half that of AA5056_IM KCV_full, which was 395 kJ/m².

In recent years, additive manufacturing of products made from 5000 series alloys has grown in popularity for marine and automotive applications. In this work, we compare of mechanical properties characteristics of aluminum alloy 5056 material produced by wire-arc additive technology and rolling. We carried out tension tests under quasi-static loading and impact toughness tests under impact loading. The results show that upon similar ultimate tensile strength and ductility, material after additive manufacturing demonstrates decreased resistance against dynamic loading than material manufactured by the typical method of casting and rolling. This decrease in properties was explained through macro- and microstructure analysis.

In this study, a composite with alternate layers of 5056 and 1580 alloys was manufactured with wire arc additive manufacturing technology. It is shown that increased strength characteristics of composite material can be obtained with deformation treatment using a high-pressure torsion (HPT) technique. The microstructure and mechanical properties of the HPT-processed material in different structural states were investigated. The HPT-processed material exhibits a high value of ultimate tensile strength (~770 MPa) but low ductility. Short-term annealing at 250 °C and additional deformation with HPT to 0.25 of revolution at room temperature resulted in a slight decrease in the material’s strength to ~700 MPa but provided ductility of ∼9%. Physical mechanisms to improve plasticity in correlation with microstructure evolution are discussed.