TY - JOUR A1 - D'Accardi, E. A1 - Krankenhagen, Rainer A1 - Ulbricht, Alexander A1 - Pelkner, Matthias A1 - Pohl, Rainer A1 - Palumbo, D. A1 - Galietti, U. T1 - Capability to detect and localize typical defects of laser powder bed fusion (L‑PBF) process: an experimental investigation with different non‑destructive techniques JF - Progress in Additive Manufacturing N2 - Additive manufacturing (AM) technologies, generally called 3D printing, are widely used because their use provides a high added value in manufacturing complex-shaped components and objects. Defects may occur within the components at different time of manufacturing, and in this regard, non-destructive techniques (NDT) represent a key tool for the quality control of AM components in many industrial fields, such as aerospace, oil and gas, and power industries. In this work, the capability of active thermography and eddy current techniques to detect real imposed defects that are representative of the laser powder bed fusion process has been investigated. A 3D complex shape of defects was revealed by a μCT investigation used as reference results for the other NDT methods. The study was focused on two different types of defects: porosities generated in keyhole mode as well as in lack of fusion mode. Different thermographic and eddy current measurements were carried out on AM samples, providing the capability to detect volumetric irregularly shaped defects using non-destructive methods. KW - Additive Manufacturing KW - Defect detection KW - Thermography KW - Eddy-current testing KW - Micro-computed tomography PY - 2022 UR - https://nbn-resolving.org/urn:nbn:de:kobv:b43-546680 DO - https://doi.org/10.1007/s40964-022-00297-4 SN - 2363-9512 VL - 7 IS - 6 SP - 1239 EP - 1256 PB - Springer AN - OPUS4-54668 LA - eng AD - Bundesanstalt fuer Materialforschung und -pruefung (BAM), Berlin, Germany ER - TY - CONF A1 - D'Accardi, E. A1 - Krankenhagen, Rainer A1 - Ulbricht, Alexander A1 - Palumbo, D. A1 - Galietti, U. T1 - Capability of active thermography to detect and localize pores in Metal Additive Manufacturing materials N2 - A powerful tool to understand, demonstrate and explain the limits of the pulsed technique in terms of detectability and localizability of AM keyhole pores has been assessed by comparing the active thermographic approach (both experimental and FEM simulations) to Computed Tomography results; ✓ µCT results demonstrate that the intended defect geometry is not achieved; indeed a network of voids (microdefects consisting of small sharp-edged hollows with a complicated, almost fractal, inner surface) was found; ✓ both Exp-PT and FEM results explains clearly why no indication of defect related to the thermal contrasts could be found during the investigation of an uncoated surface. However, the application of further data evaluations focusing on the thermal behavior and emissivity evaluation (PPT post data processing) enable the detection of some defects; ✓ coating facilitates a closer inspection of inner defects, but inhomogeneities of the coating could impair the spatial resolution and lead to the emergence of hotspots (the FEM simulation reached its limit with this extreme geometry where a 25 µm thin disc is considered at a 1 cm thick specimen in millisecond time resolution); ✓ both Exp-PT and FEM results allow the conclusion that very short pulses of 200 ms or shorter should be sufficient to detect these defects below, but near the surface; besides a short duration of the thermal phenomenon it should be emphasized, about 0.04 s (high frame rate camera); T2 - Convegno AIAS 2020 CY - Online meeting DA - 02.09.2020 KW - Additive Manufacturing KW - Laser powderbed fusion KW - Pores KW - Thermography PY - 2020 AN - OPUS4-51922 LA - eng AD - Bundesanstalt fuer Materialforschung und -pruefung (BAM), Berlin, Germany ER - TY - CONF A1 - D'Accardi, E. A1 - Ulbricht, Alexander A1 - Krankenhagen, Rainer A1 - Palumbo, D. A1 - Galietti, U. T1 - Capability of active thermography to detect and localize pores in Metal Additive Manufacturing materials T2 - IOP conference series: Materials science and engineering N2 - Active thermography is a fast, contactless and non-destructive technique that can be used to detect internal defects in different types of material. Volumetric irregularities such as the presence of pores in materials produced by the Additive Manufacturing processes can strongly affect the thermophysical and the mechanical properties of the final component. In this work, an experimental investigation aimed at detecting different pores in a sample made of stainless AISI 316L produced by Laser Powder Bed Fusion (L-PBF) was carried out using pulsed thermography in reflection mode. The capability of the technique and the adopted setups in terms of geometrical and thermal resolution, acquisition frequency and energy Density of the heating source were assessed to discern two contiguous pores as well as to detect a single pore. Moreover, a quantitative indication about the minimum resolvable pore size among the available and analysed defects was provided. A powerful tool to assess the Limits and the opportunities of the pulsed technique in terms of detectability and localizability was provided by comparing active thermography results to Computed Tomography as well as a related Finite Element Analysis (FEA) to simulate the pulsed heating transfer with Comsol. T2 - 49th Italian Association for Stress Analysis Conferencee (AIAS 2020) CY - Online meeting DA - 02.09.2020 KW - Additive manufacturing KW - Laser powderbed fusion KW - Pores KW - Thermography KW - Micro-CT PY - 2021 UR - https://nbn-resolving.org/urn:nbn:de:kobv:b43-519231 DO - https://doi.org/10.1088/1757-899X/1038/1/012018 VL - 1038 SP - 1 EP - 17 PB - Institute of Physics CY - London AN - OPUS4-51923 LA - eng AD - Bundesanstalt fuer Materialforschung und -pruefung (BAM), Berlin, Germany ER -