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Additive manufacturing processes, particularly Laser-Based Powder Bed Fusion of Metals (PBF-LB/M), enable the development of new application possibilities due to their manufacturing-specific freedom of design. These new fields of application require a high degree of component quality, especially in safety-relevant areas. This is currently ensured primarily via a considerable amount of downstream quality control. Suitable process monitoring systems promise to reduce this effort drastically. This paper introduces a novel monitoring method in order to gain process-specific thermal information during the manufacturing process. The Synchronized Path Infrared Thermography (SPIT) method is based on two synchronized galvanometer scanners allowing high-speed and high-resolution observations of the melt pool in the SWIR range. One scanner is used to steer the laser over the building platform, while the second scanner guides the field of view of an IR camera. With this setup, the melting process is observed at different laser powers, scan speeds and at different locations with respect to the laser position, in order to demonstrate the positioning accuracy of the system and to initially gain thermal process data of the melt pool and the heat-affected zone. Therefore, the SPIT system shows a speed independent overall accuracy of ±2 Pixel within the evaluated range. The system further allows detailed thermal observation of the melt pool and the surrounding heat-affected zone.
Das direkte Metall-Laser-Schmelzen (DMLS) aus der Familie der Additiven Fertigungsverfahren (AM) ermöglicht die schichtweise Erzeugung komplexer dreidimensionaler Geometrien mit hoher relativer Dichte unter Verwendung von Metallpulver als Ausgangsmaterial [1]. Die Technologie wird zunehmend eingesetzt, um innovative Bauteile material- und gewichtssparend herzustellen oder komplexe Produkte ohne zusätzliche Werkzeuge oder Spannvorrichtungen zu fertigen. Darüber hinaus sind Funktionsintegrationen, zum Beispiel Gussformen mit eingeprägten Kühlkanälen, möglich. Da einzelne Metallpulverschichten auf vorhergehende Schichten aufgeschmolzen werden, entstehen während der Herstellung des Bauteils komplexe, zeitabhängige Temperaturprofile [2]. Durch den Einsatz hoher Laserintensitäten und Scangeschwindigkeiten, bei denen die Belichtungszeit der Laserbestrahlung im Bereich von Millisekunden liegt, werden zudem extrem hohe Aufheiz- und Abkühlraten induziert, die zu einzigartigen Mikrostrukturen und Materialeigenschaften führen [3].
Diese extremen Prozessbedingungen können sich jedoch auch negativ auf den Fertigungsprozess auswirken. Bei komplexen Bauteilen bleibt die Prozessstabilität und Qualitätssicherung Umfragen zufolge weiterhin die wichtigste technologische Barriere für den Einsatz additiv gefertigter Bauteile in hochbelasteten oder sicherheitsrelevanten Bereichen [4]. Daher verspricht der Zusammenhang zwischen Temperaturprofil während der Fertigung, relativer Dichte der Bauteile, sowie thermophysikalischer Eigenschaften additiv gefertigter Proben wichtige Erkenntnisse, insbesondere im Hinblick auf eine zerstörungsfreie Qualitätssicherung, sowie neue Anwendungsmöglichkeiten.
Industriezweige wie die Glas-Industrie, die Kraftwerkstechnik sowie die Luft- und Raumfahrttechnik müssen kontinuierlich neue Methoden entwickeln, sowie bestehende Verfahren optimieren, um in ihren Bereichen wettbewerbsfähig zu sein bzw. neue Anforderungen an Umwelt- und Klimaschutz zu erfüllen. Dies beinhaltet oft die Entwicklung neuer Materialien, die leichter zu fabrizieren sind und sowohl mechanisch als auch thermisch höheren Belastungen standhalten. Für die genannten Industriezweige sind Prozesse mit hohen Betriebstemperaturen bis zu 3.000 °C kennzeichnend und damit ist die Kenntnis von Materialeigenschaften bei diesen extremen Temperaturen von großer Bedeutung. Auch wenn es bereits einige Messapparaturen für die Bestimmung von thermophysikalischen Materialdaten bei hohen Temperaturen gibt, muss die Rückführung dieser auf die SI Basiseinheiten gewährleistet werden, um die Zuverlässigkeit der gemessenen Daten für die Anforderung der genannten Branchen sicherzustellen.
Diese Aufgabe ist das Ziel des EMPIR-(European Metrology Programme for Innovation and Research) Projektes Hi-TRACE [1]. Hi-TRACE zielt darauf ab, Referenzapparaturen und neue
Methoden für die Messung von thermophysikalischen Materialeigenschaften, (thermische Diffusivität, spezifische Wärme, Emissionsgrad und Schmelztemperatur) sowie der Haftung
von Schichten über 1.000 °C zu bestimmen.
Nowadays, additive manufacturing processes are becoming more and more appealing due to their production-oriented design guidelines, especially with regard to topology optimisation and minimal downstream production depth in contrast to conventional technologies. However, a scientific path in the areas of quality assurance, material and microstructural properties, intrinsic thermal permeability and dependent stress parameters inhibits enthusiasm for the potential degrees of freedom of the direct metal laser melting process (DMLS). Especially in quality assurance, post-processing destructive measuring methods are still predominantly necessary in order to evaluate the components adequately. The overall objective of these investigations is to gain process knowledge make reliable in situ statements about component quality and material properties based on the process parameters used and emission values measured. The knowledge will then be used to develop non-destructive tools for the quality management of additively manufactured components. To assess the effectiveness of the research design in relation to the objectives for further investigations, this pre-study evaluates the dependencies between the process parameters, process emission during manufacturing and resulting thermal diffusivity and the relative density of samples fabricated by DMLS. Therefore, the approach deals with additively built metal samples made on an EOS M290 apparatus with varying hatch distances while simultaneously detecting the process emission. Afterwards, the relative density of the samples is determined optically, and thermal diffusivity is measured using the laser flash method. As a result of this pre-study, all interactions of the within factors are presented. The process variable hatch distance indicates a strong influence on the resulting material properties, as an increase in the hatch distance from 0.11 mm to 1 mm leads to a drop in relative density of 57.4%. The associated thermal diffusivity also reveals a sharp decrease from 5.3 mm2/s to 1.3 mm2/s with growing hatch distances. The variability of the material properties can also be observed in the measured process emissions. However, as various factors overlap in the thermal radiation signal, no clear assignment is possible within the scope of this work.
To address the needs for increasing efficiency in power conversion, stratified structures like thermal barrier coatings, are used to increase operation temperature. Also advanced material processing like 3D laser printing of metals and ceramics are based on a layer-to-layer process at high temperatures, resulting in non-homogeneous components. Both systems require more and more detailed investigation methods to characterise the material properties of the resulting structures and to optimize the relevant processes. To address the required needs in advanced material characterisation recently an attempt was started to develop a unique measurement set-up for advanced material characterisation. This method is based on the well know laser flash principle, which was improved by adding supplementary heating sources and additional detection channels. Combining different heating mechanism and heating times with the two-dimensional measuring of the thermal flow across the sample enables the determination of different opto-thermal parameters and other material properties, e.g. mechanical contact, electrical conductivity or optical data, which also depend on or affect the flow of heat. In this paper we describe the implementation of the different optical methods to measure the thermal heat flow by point-like and two-dimensional temperature measurement and present first results on several samples.