TY - CONF A1 - Mishurova, Tatiana A1 - Thiede, Tobias A1 - Evsevleev, Sergei A1 - Serrano Munoz, Itziar A1 - Gollwitzer, Christian A1 - Bruno, Giovanni T1 - 3D Shape Analysis of Powder for Laser Beam Melting by Synchrotron X-ray CT N2 - The quality of components made by laser beam melting (LBM) additive manufacturing is naturally influenced by the quality of the powder bed. A packing density < 1 and porosity inside the powder particles lead to intrinsic voids in the powder bed. Since the packing density is determined by the particle size and shape distribution, the determination of these properties is of significant interest to assess the printing process. In this work, the size and shape distribution, the amount of particle’s intrinsic porosity as well as the packing density of micrometric powder used for LBM have been investigated by means of synchrotron X-ray computed tomography (CT). Two different powder batches were investigated: Ti-6Al-4V produced by plasma atomization and Stainless Steel 316L produced by gas atomization. Plasma atomization particles were observed to be more spherical in terms of the mean anisotropy compared to particles produced by gas atomization. The two kinds of particles are comparable in size according to the equivalent diameter. The packing density is lower (i.e. the powder bed contains more voids in between particles) for the Ti-6Al-4V particles. The comparison of the tomographic results with laser diffraction, as another particle size measurements techniques, proved agreement. T2 - User Meeting HZB 2018 CY - Berlin, BESSY II DA - 06.12.2018 KW - BAMline KW - Computed tomography KW - Laser beam melting KW - Powder PY - 2018 AN - OPUS4-46933 LA - eng AD - Bundesanstalt fuer Materialforschung und -pruefung (BAM), Berlin, Germany ER -