The invention provides high-strength and high-
toughness four-dimensional gradient stainless steel and an additive manufacturing method thereof. The additive manufacturing method comprises the following steps that S1, printing raw materials are prepared, wherein the printing raw materials comprise 316L stainless steel
powder and 316L / TiC mixed
powder; the preparation method of the 316L / TiC mixed
powder comprises the following steps: uniformly mixing 2-6wt% of nano TiC powder and 94-98wt% of 316L stainless steel powder, putting the uniformly mixed powder into a
ball mill, and carrying out
grinding treatment, so that the nano TiC powder is uniformly attached to the surface of the 316L stainless steel powder; s2,
laser additive manufacturing is conducted, specifically, the two kinds of powder of the printing raw materials are placed in a
laser additive manufacturing device to be printed, the two kinds of powder are alternately printed during printing, and the number of printing
layers of each kind of powder is 1-100 till the needed sample size is obtained; the technological parameters of
laser additive manufacturing are as follows: the laser power is 150 to 500 W, the scanning speed is 400 to 1400 mm / s, the interlayer spacing is 0.04 to 0.1 mm, and the
layer thickness is 0.01 to 0.05 mm; in the additive manufacturing process,
argon is adopted as protective gas.