TY - CONF A1 - Breese, Philipp Peter A1 - Becker, Tina A1 - Oster, Simon A1 - Metz, C. A1 - Altenburg, Simon T1 - In-situ defect detection for laser powder bed fusion with active laser thermography N2 - Defects are still common in metal components built with Additive Manufacturing (AM). Process monitoring methods for laser powder bed fusion (PBF-LB/M) are used in industry, but relationships between monitoring data and defect formation are not fully understood yet. Additionally, defects and deformations may develop with a time delay to the laser energy input. Thus, currently, the component quality is only determinable after the finished process. Here, active laser thermography, a non-destructive testing method, is adapted to PBF-LB/M, using the defocused process laser as heat source. The testing can be performed layer by layer throughout the manufacturing process. The results of the defect detection using infrared cameras are presented for a custom research PBF-LB/M machine. Our work enables a shift from post-process testing of components towards in-situ testing during the AM process. The actual component quality is evaluated in the process chamber and defects can be detected between layers. T2 - 2023 Annual International Solid Freeform Fabrication Symposium CY - Austin, TX, USA DA - 14.08.2023 KW - Additive Manufacturing KW - Additive Fertigung KW - Laser Powder Bed Fusion KW - Nondestructive Testing KW - Flying Spot Laser Thermography PY - 2023 AN - OPUS4-58137 LA - eng AD - Bundesanstalt fuer Materialforschung und -pruefung (BAM), Berlin, Germany ER - TY - CONF A1 - Breese, Philipp Peter A1 - Becker, Tina A1 - Oster, Simon A1 - Metz, C. A1 - Altenburg, Simon T1 - In-situ defect detection via active laser thermographic testing for PBF-LB/M N2 - Great complexity characterizes Additive Manufacturing (AM) of metallic components via laser powder bed fusion (PBF-LB/M). Due to this, defects in the printed components (like cracks and pores) are still common. Monitoring methods are commercially used, but the relationship between process data and defect formation is not well understood yet. Furthermore, defects and deformations might develop with a temporal delay to the laser energy input. The component’s actual quality is consequently only determinable after the finished process. To overcome this drawback, thermographic in-situ testing is introduced. The defocused process laser is utilized for nondestructive testing performed layer by layer throughout the build process. The results of the defect detection via infrared cameras are shown for a research PBF-LB/M machine. This creates the basis for a shift from in-situ monitoring towards in-situ testing during the AM process. Defects are detected immediately inside the process chamber, and the actual component quality is determined. T2 - Lasers in Manufacturing (LiM) CY - Munich, Germany DA - 26.06.2023 KW - Additive Manufacturing KW - Laser Powder Bed Fusion KW - Nondestructive Testing KW - Defect Detection KW - Flying Spot Laser Thermography PY - 2023 AN - OPUS4-57922 LA - eng AD - Bundesanstalt fuer Materialforschung und -pruefung (BAM), Berlin, Germany ER - TY - CONF A1 - Becker, Tina A1 - Altenburg, Simon A1 - Metz, Christian A1 - Breese, Philipp Peter A1 - Oster, Simon A1 - Maierhofer, Christiane T1 - Two approaches for multi measurand in-situ monitoring of the L-PBF process – bicolor- and RGB-optical tomography N2 - Since metal additive manufacturing (AM) becomes more and more established in industry, also the cost pressure for AM components increases. One big cost factor is the quality control of the manufactured components. Reliable in-process monitoring systems are a promising route to lower scrap rates and enhance trust in the component and process quality. The focus of this contribution is the presentation and comparison of two optical tomography based multi measurand in-situ monitoring approaches for the L-PBF process: the bicolor- and the RGB-optical tomography. The classical optical tomography (OT) is one of the most common commercial in-situ monitoring techniques in industrial L-PBF machines. In the OT spatial resolved layer-images of the L-PBF process are taken from an off-axis position in one near infrared wavelength window. In addition to the explanatory powers classical OT, both here presented approaches enable the determination of the maximum surface temperature. In contrast to thermography that may also yield maximum temperature information, the needed equipment is significantly cheaper and offers a higher spatial resolution. Both approaches are implemented at a new in-house developed L-PBF system (Sensor-based additive manufacturing machine - SAMMIE). SAMMIE is specifically designed for the development and characterization of in-situ monitoring systems and is introduced as well. T2 - ICAM2022 CY - Orlando, FL, USA DA - 31.10.2022 KW - Additive Manufacturing KW - L-PBF KW - In-process monitoring KW - Optical tomography PY - 2022 AN - OPUS4-56594 LA - eng AD - Bundesanstalt fuer Materialforschung und -pruefung (BAM), Berlin, Germany ER - TY - CONF A1 - Becker, Tina A1 - Stark, T. A1 - Arduini, M. A1 - Manara, J. A1 - Altenburg, Simon T1 - Emissivity – Gamechanger for quantitative in-situ monitoring N2 - For a deep process understanding of the laser powder bed fusion process (PBF-LB/M), recording of the occurring surface temperatures is of utmost interest and would help to pave the way for reliable process monitoring and quality assurance. A notable number of approaches for in-process monitoring of the PBF-LB/M process focus on the monitoring of thermal process signatures. However, due to the elaborate calibration effort and the lack of knowledge about the occurring spectral directional emissivity, only a few approaches attempt to measure real temperatures. In this study, to gain initial insights into occurring in the PBF-LB/M process, measurements on PBF-LB/M specimens and metal powder specimens were performed for higher temperatures up to T = 1290 °C by means of the emissivity measurement apparatus (EMMA) of the Center for Applied Energy Research (CAE, Wuerzburg, Germany). Also, measurements at ambient temperatures were performed with a suitable measurement setup. Two different materials—stainless steel 316L and aluminum AlSi10Mg—were examined. The investigated wavelength λ ranges from the visible range (λ-VIS = 0.40–0.75 µm) up to the infrared, λ = 20 µm. The influence of the following factors were investigated: azimuth angle φ, specimen temperature TS, surface texture as for PBF-LB/M surfaces with different scan angles α, and powder surfaces with different layer thicknesses t. T2 - Rapid.Tech 3D 2024 CY - Erfurt, Germany DA - 14.05.2024 KW - PBF-LB/M KW - In situ monitoring KW - Emissivity KW - Additive Manufacturing PY - 2024 AN - OPUS4-60148 LA - eng AD - Bundesanstalt fuer Materialforschung und -pruefung (BAM), Berlin, Germany ER - TY - JOUR A1 - Neumann, Christian A1 - Thore, Johannes A1 - Clozel, Mélanie A1 - Günster, Jens A1 - Wilbig, Janka A1 - Meyer, Andreas T1 - Additive manufacturing of metallic glass from powder in space N2 - Additive manufacturing of metals – and in particular building with laser-based powder bed fusion – is highly flexible and allows high-resolution features and feedstock savings. Meanwhile, though space stations in low Earth orbit are established, a set of visits to the Moon have been performed, and humankind can send out rovers to explore Venus and Mars, none of these milestone missions is equipped with technology to manufacture functional metallic parts or tools in space. In order to advance space exploration to long-term missions beyond low Earth orbit, it will be crucial to develop and employ technology for in-space manufacturing (ISM) and in-situ resource utilisation (ISRU). To use the advantages of laser-based powder bed fusion in these endeavours, the challenge of powder handling in microgravity must be met. Here we present a device capable of building parts using metallic powders in microgravity. This was proven on several sounding rocket flights, on which occasions Zr-based metallic glass parts produced by additive manufacturing in space were built. The findings of this work demonstrate that building parts using powder feedstock, which is more compact to transport into space than wire, is possible in microgravity environments. This thus significantly advances ISRU and ISM and paves the way for future tests in prolonged microgravity settings. KW - Metallic Glass KW - Additive Manufacturing KW - Space PY - 2023 UR - https://nbn-resolving.org/urn:nbn:de:kobv:b43-600667 DO - https://doi.org/10.1038/s41526-023-00327-7 VL - 9 SP - 1 EP - 9 PB - Springer Nature AN - OPUS4-60066 LA - eng AD - Bundesanstalt fuer Materialforschung und -pruefung (BAM), Berlin, Germany ER - TY - CONF A1 - Altenburg, Simon T1 - Introduction to ProMoAM N2 - A brief introduction to the project ProMoAM is given. T2 - 2nd Workshop on In-situ Monitoring and Microstructure Development in Additive Manufactured Alloys CY - Online meeting DA - 19.04.2021 KW - Additive Manufacturing KW - Process monitoring KW - ProMoAM PY - 2021 AN - OPUS4-52513 LA - eng AD - Bundesanstalt fuer Materialforschung und -pruefung (BAM), Berlin, Germany ER - TY - CONF A1 - Altenburg, Simon A1 - Maierhofer, Christiane T1 - Improving additive manufacturing technologies by in-situ monitoring: Thermography N2 - Additive manufacturing of metals gains increasing relevance in the industrial field for part production. However, especially for safety relevant applications, a suitable quality assurance is needed. A time and cost efficient route to achieve this goal is in-situ monitoring of the build process. Here, the BAM project ProMoAM (Process monitoring in additive manufacturing) is briefly introduced and recent advances of BAM in the field of in-situ monitoring of the L-PBF and the LMD process using thermography are presented. T2 - Anwenderkonferenz Infratec GmbH CY - Online meeting DA - 04.11.2021 KW - Additive Manufacturing KW - Process monitoring KW - Thermography PY - 2021 AN - OPUS4-54026 LA - eng AD - Bundesanstalt fuer Materialforschung und -pruefung (BAM), Berlin, Germany ER - TY - CONF A1 - Breese, Philipp Peter A1 - Becker, Tina A1 - Oster, Simon A1 - Altenburg, Simon A1 - Metz, C. A1 - Maierhofer, Christiane T1 - Aktive Laserthermografie im L-PBF-Prozess zur in-situ Detektion von Defekten N2 - Die zerstörungsfreie Prüfung von metallischen Bauteilen hergestellt mit additiver Fertigung (Additive Manufacturing - AM) gewinnt zunehmend an industrieller Bedeutung. Grund dafür ist die Feststellung von Qualität, Reproduzierbarkeit und damit auch Sicherheit für Bauteile, die mittels AM gefertigt wurden. Jedoch wird noch immer ex-situ geprüft, wobei Defekte (z.B. Poren, Risse etc.) erst nach Prozessabschluss entdeckt werden. Übersteigen Anzahl und/oder Abmessung die vorgegebenen Grenzwerte für diese Defekte, so kommt es zu Ausschuss, was angesichts sehr langer Bauprozessdauern äußerst unrentabel ist. Eine Schwierigkeit ist dabei, dass manche Defekte sich erst zeitverzögert zum eigentlichen Materialauftrag bilden, z.B. durch thermische Spannungen oder Schmelzbadaktivitäten. Dementsprechend sind reine Monitoringansätze zur Detektion ggf. nicht ausreichend. Daher wird in dieser Arbeit ein Verfahren zur aktiven Thermografie an dem AM-Prozess Laser Powder Bed Fusion (L-PBF) untersucht. Das Bauteil wird mit Hilfe des defokussierten Prozesslasers bei geringer Laserleistung zwischen den einzelnen gefertigten Lagen unabhängig vom eigentlichen Bauprozess erwärmt. Die entstehende Wärmesignatur wird ort- und zeitaufgelöst durch eine Infrarotkamera erfasst. Durch diese der Lagenfertigung nachgelagerte Prüfung werden auch zum Bauprozess zeitversetzte Defektbildungen nachweisbar. In dieser Arbeit finden die Untersuchungen als Proof-of-Concept, losgelöst vom AM-Prozess, an einem typischen metallischen Testkörper statt. Dieser besitzt eine Nut als oberflächlichen Defekt. Die durchgeführten Messungen finden an einer eigens entwickelten L-PBF-Forschungsanlage innerhalb der Prozesskammer statt. Damit wird ein neuartiger Ansatz zur aktiven Thermografie für L-PBF erforscht, der eine größere Bandbreite an Defektarten auffindbar macht. Der Ansatz wird validiert und Genauigkeit sowie Auflösungsvermögen geprüft. Eine Anwendung am AM-Prozess wird damit direkt forciert und die dafür benötigten Zusammenhänge werden präsentiert. T2 - DGZfP-Jahrestagung 2022 CY - Kassel, Germany DA - 23.05.2022 KW - Additive Manufacturing KW - Laser Powder Bed Fusion KW - Thermografie KW - Zerstörungsfreie Prüfung KW - Aktive Laserthermografie PY - 2022 UR - https://nbn-resolving.org/urn:nbn:de:kobv:b43-550353 SN - 978-3-947971-25-1 VL - 177 SP - 1 EP - 9 PB - Deutsche Gesellschaft für Zerstörungsfreie Prüfung e.V. AN - OPUS4-55035 LA - deu AD - Bundesanstalt fuer Materialforschung und -pruefung (BAM), Berlin, Germany ER - TY - CONF A1 - Altenburg, Simon A1 - Maierhofer, Christiane A1 - Pelkner, Matthias T1 - Process monitoring in metal AM @ BAM - The project ProMoAM N2 - Results of the project ProMoAM (Process monitoring in additive manufacturing) presented. Results from in-situ eddy current testing, optical emission spectroscopy, thermography, optical tomography as well as particle and gas emission spectroscopy are summarized and correlated to results from computed tomography for future in-situ defect detection. T2 - 3rd Meeting of WG6 (NDT in AM) of the EFNDT CY - Online meeting DA - 15.03.2022 KW - Additive Manufacturing KW - Process monitoring KW - ProMoAM PY - 2022 AN - OPUS4-54484 LA - eng AD - Bundesanstalt fuer Materialforschung und -pruefung (BAM), Berlin, Germany ER - TY - CONF A1 - Breese, Philipp Peter A1 - Becker, Tina A1 - Oster, Simon A1 - Altenburg, Simon A1 - Metz, C. A1 - Maierhofer, Christiane T1 - Aktive Laserthermografie im L-PBF-Prozess zur in-situ Detektion von Defekten N2 - Die zerstörungsfreie Prüfung von metallischen Bauteilen hergestellt mit additiver Fertigung (Additive Manufacturing - AM) gewinnt zunehmend an industrieller Bedeutung. Grund dafür ist die Feststellung von Qualität, Reproduzierbarkeit und damit auch Sicherheit für Bauteile, die mittels AM gefertigt wurden. Jedoch wird noch immer ex-situ geprüft, wobei Defekte (z.B. Poren, Risse etc.) erst nach Prozessabschluss entdeckt werden. Übersteigen Anzahl und/oder Abmessung die vorgegebenen Grenzwerte für diese Defekte, so kommt es zu Ausschuss, was angesichts sehr langer Bauprozessdauern äußerst unrentabel ist. Eine Schwierigkeit ist dabei, dass manche Defekte sich erst zeitverzögert zum eigentlichen Materialauftrag bilden, z.B. durch thermische Spannungen oder Schmelzbadaktivitäten. Dementsprechend sind reine Monitoringansätze zur Detektion ggf. nicht ausreichend. Daher wird in dieser Arbeit ein Verfahren zur aktiven Thermografie an dem AM-Prozess Laser Powder Bed Fusion (L-PBF) untersucht. Das Bauteil wird mit Hilfe des defokussierten Prozesslasers bei geringer Laserleistung zwischen den einzelnen gefertigten Lagen unabhängig vom eigentlichen Bauprozess erwärmt. Die entstehende Wärmesignatur wird ort- und zeitaufgelöst durch eine Infrarotkamera erfasst. Durch diese der Lagenfertigung nachgelagerte Prüfung werden auch zum Bauprozess zeitversetzte Defektbildungen nachweisbar. In dieser Arbeit finden die Untersuchungen als Proof-of-Concept, losgelöst vom AM-Prozess, an einem typischen metallischen Testkörper statt. Dieser besitzt eine Nut als oberflächlichen Defekt. Die durchgeführten Messungen finden an einer eigens entwickelten L-PBF-Forschungsanlage innerhalb der Prozesskammer statt. Damit wird ein neuartiger Ansatz zur aktiven Thermografie für L-PBF erforscht, der eine größere Bandbreite an Defektarten auffindbar macht. Der Ansatz wird validiert und Genauigkeit sowie Auflösungsvermögen geprüft. Eine Anwendung am AM-Prozess wird damit direkt forciert und die dafür benötigten Zusammenhänge werden präsentiert. T2 - DGZfP-Jahrestagung 2022 CY - Kassel, Germany DA - 23.05.2022 KW - Additive Manufacturing KW - Laser Powder Bed Fusion KW - Thermografie KW - Zerstörungsfreie Prüfung KW - Aktive Laserthermografie PY - 2022 AN - OPUS4-55040 LA - deu AD - Bundesanstalt fuer Materialforschung und -pruefung (BAM), Berlin, Germany ER - TY - CONF A1 - Breese, Philipp Peter A1 - Becker, Tina A1 - Oster, Simon A1 - Metz, C. A1 - Altenburg, Simon T1 - In-situ Prüfung additiv gefertigter L-PBF-Bauteile mit aktiver Laserthermografie N2 - Die additive Fertigung von metallischen Bauteilen (Additive Manufacturing - AM; auch 3D-Druck genannt) bietet eine Vielzahl an Vorteilen gegenüber konventionellen Fertigungsmethoden. Durch den schichtweisen Auftrag und das selektive Aufschmelzen von Metallpulver im Laser Powder Bed Fusion Prozess (L-PBF) sind u.a. optimierte und flexibel anpassbare Designs und die Nutzung von neuartigen Materialien möglich. Aufgrund der Komplexität des AM-Prozesses und der Menge an Einflussfaktoren ist eine Qualitätssicherung der gefertigten Bauteile unabdingbar. Verschiedene in-situ Monitoringansätze werden bereits angewendet, jedoch findet eine dedizierte Prüfung erst im Nachgang der Fertigung ex-situ statt. Der Grund dafür ist, dass die Entstehung von geometrischen Abweichungen und Defekten auch zeitversetzt zum eigentlichen Materialauftrag und damit auch zum Monitoring stattfinden kann. Die Notwendigkeit geeigneter in-situ Prüfmethoden für L-PBF, um die Erforderlichkeit einer Nacharbeitung frühzeitig festzustellen und Ausschuss zu vermeiden ist angesichts kostenintensiver Ausgangsstoffe und einer oftmals mehrstündigen bis mehrtägigen Prozessdauer besonders hoch. Daraus motiviert wird im Rahmen des Projektes ATLAMP die Möglichkeit der aktiven Laserthermografie mit Hilfe des defokussierten Fertigungslasers untersucht. Damit ist, bei vergleichsweise geringer Laserleistung, eine zerstörungsfreie Prüfung mittels Flying Spot Thermografie möglich. Diese findet jeweils anschließend an die Fertigung einer Schicht statt, womit der reale Status des Bauteils im Verlauf des AM-Prozesses geprüft wird. Als Grundlage dafür werden im Rahmen dieser Arbeit mit AM gefertigte, defektbehaftete Probekörper zunächst losgelöst vom Fertigungsprozess untersucht. Damit werden die Grundlagen für den neuartigen Ansatz der aktiven in-situ Laserthermografie im L-PBF-Prozess mittels des Fertigungslasers geschaffen. Auf diese Weise lassen sich auch zeitversetzt auftretende Defekte zerstörungsfrei im Prozessverlauf feststellen und eine aussagekräftige Qualitätssicherung des Ist-Zustands des Bauteils erreichen. T2 - Thermographie-Kolloquium 2022 CY - Saarbrücken, Germany DA - 28.09.2022 KW - Additive Manufacturing KW - Laser Powder Bed Fusion KW - Defekte KW - Zerstörungsfreie Prüfung KW - Aktive Laserthermografie PY - 2022 UR - https://www.dgzfp.de/Portals/thermo2022/BB178/Inhalt/18.pdf SN - 978-3-947971-27-5 AN - OPUS4-56810 LA - deu AD - Bundesanstalt fuer Materialforschung und -pruefung (BAM), Berlin, Germany ER - TY - CONF A1 - Schröder, Jakob A1 - Evans, Alexander A1 - Heldmann, A. A1 - Hofmann, M. A1 - Polatidis, E. A1 - Čapek, J. A1 - Petry, W. A1 - Serrano-Munoz, Itziar A1 - Bruno, Giovanni T1 - Diffraction and Single-Crystal Elastic Constants of Laser Powder Bed Fused Inconel 718 N2 - Laser powder bed fusion (PBF-LB/M) of metallic alloys is a layer-wise additive manufacturing process that provides significant scope for more efficient designs of components, benefiting performance and weight, leading to efficiency improvements for various sectors of industry. However, to benefit from these design freedoms, knowledge of the high produced induced residual stress and mechanical property anisotropy associated with the unique microstructures is critical. X-ray and neutron diffraction are considered the benchmark for non-destructive characterization of surface and bulk internal residual stress. The latter, characterized by the high penetration power in most engineering alloys, allows for the use of a diffraction angle close to 90° enabling a near cubic sampling volume to be specified. However, the complex microstructures of columnar growth with inherent crystallographic texture typically produced during PBF-LB/M of metallics present significant challenges to the assumptions typically required for time efficient determination of residual stress. These challenges include the selection of an appropriate set of diffraction elastic constants and a representative lattice plane suitable for residual stress analysis. In this contribution, the selection of a suitable lattice plane family for residual stress analysis is explored. Furthermore, the determination of an appropriate set of diffraction and single-crystal elastic constants depending on the underlying microstructure is addressed. In-situ loading experiments have been performed at the Swiss Spallation Neutron Source with the main scope to study the deformation behaviour of laser powder bed fused Inconel 718. Cylindrical tensile bars have been subjected to an increasing mechanical load. At pre-defined steps, neutron diffraction data has been collected. After reaching the yield limit, unloads have been performed to study the accumulation of intergranular strain among various lattice plane families. T2 - 11th European Conference on Residual Stresses CY - Prag, Czech Republic DA - 03.06.2024 KW - Additive Manufacturing KW - Laser Powder Bed fusion KW - Diffraction Elastic Constants KW - Microstructure KW - Electron Backscatter Diffraction PY - 2024 AN - OPUS4-60289 LA - eng AD - Bundesanstalt fuer Materialforschung und -pruefung (BAM), Berlin, Germany ER - TY - CONF A1 - Schröder, Jakob A1 - Evans, Alexander A1 - Luzin, V. A1 - Čapek, J. A1 - Polatidis, E. A1 - Bruno, Giovanni T1 - Laser Powder Bed Fusion: Fundamentals of Diffraction-Based Residual Stress Determination N2 - The general term additive manufacturing (AM) encompasses processes that enable the production of parts in a single manufacturing step. Among these, laser powder bed fusion (PBF-LB) is one of the most commonly used to produce metal components. In essence, a laser locally melts powder particles in a powder bed layer-by-layer to incrementally build a part. As a result, this process offers immense manufacturing flexibility and superior geometric design capabilities compared to conventional processes. However, these advantages come at a cost: the localized processing inevitably induces large thermal gradients, resulting in the formation of large thermal stress during manufacturing. In the best case, residual stress remains in the final parts produced as a footprint of this thermal stress. Since residual stress is well known to exacerbate the structural integrity of components, their assessment is important in two respects. First, to optimize process parameter to minimize residual stress magnitudes. Second, to study their effect on the structural integrity of components (e.g., validation of numerical models). Therefore, a reliable experimental assessment of residual stress is an important factor for the successful application of PBF-LB. In this context, diffraction-based techniques allow the non-destructive characterization of the residual stress. In essence, lattice strain is calculated from interplanar distances by application of Braggs law. From the known lattice strain, macroscopic stress can be determined using Hooke’s law. To allow the accurate assessment of the residual stress distribution by such methods, a couple of challenges in regard of the characteristic PBF-LB microstructures need to be overcome. This presentation highlights some of the challenges regarding the accurate assessment of residual stress in PBF-LB on the example of the Nickel-based alloy Inconel 718. The most significant influencing factors are the use of the correct diffraction elastic constants, the choice of the stress-free reference, and the consideration of the crystallographic texture. Further, it is shown that laboratory X-ray diffraction methods characterizing residual stress at the surface are biased by the inherent surface roughness. Overall, the impact of the characteristic microstructure is most significant for the selection of the correct diffraction elastic constants. In view of the localized melting and solidification, no significant gradients of the stress-free reference are observed, even though the cell-like solidification sub-structure is known to be heterogeneous on the micro-scale. T2 - 4th Symposium on Materials and Additive Manufacturing CY - Berlin, Germany DA - 12.06.2024 KW - Additive Manufacturing KW - Residual Stress KW - Electron Backscatter Diffraction KW - Laser Powder Bed Fusion PY - 2024 AN - OPUS4-60294 LA - eng AD - Bundesanstalt fuer Materialforschung und -pruefung (BAM), Berlin, Germany ER - TY - JOUR A1 - Drendel, Jan A1 - Logvinov, Ruslan A1 - Heinrichsdorff, Frank A1 - Hilgenberg, Kai T1 - Simulation-based controlling of local surface temperature in laser powder bed fusion using the process laser N2 - State-of-the-art laser powder bed fusion (PBF-LB/M) machines allow pre-heating of the substrate plate to reduce stress and improve part quality. However, two major issues have been shown in the past: First, with increasing build height the apparent pre-heat temperature at the surface can deviate drastically from the nominal pre-heat temperature in the substrate plate. Second, even within a single layer the local surface pre-heat temperature can show large gradients due to thermal bottlenecks in the part geometry underneath the top surface. Both lead to unwanted changes in microstructure or defects in the final parts. In this study, a first attempt is taken to show the feasibility of pre-heating the top surface with the onboard laser beam to overcome the mentioned issues. A single layer of a group of three parts built from IN718 to a height of 33.5 mm is pre-heated in a commercially available PBF-LB/M machine to an average steady state surface temperature of 200 °C using the onboard laser beam. The parts are continuously heated, omitting powder deposition and melting step. Temperatures are measured by thermocouples underneath the surface. The experiments are supported by a thermal finite element (FE) model that predicts the temperature field in the parts. When heating the parts uniformly with the laser beam, differences in surface temperatures as large as 170 K are observed. To overcome this inhomogeneity, the heat flux supplied by the laser beam is modulated. An optimized, spatial heat flow distribution is provided by the thermal FE model and translated into a scan pattern that reproduces the optimized heat distribution on the PBF-LB/M machine by locally modulating hatch distance and scan velocity. This successfully reduces the differences in surface temperature to 20 K. Thermographic imaging shows that a homogeneous surface temperature can be achieved despite the localized heat input by the beam. The potential for industrial application of the optimized laser-heating technique is discussed. KW - Additive Manufacturing KW - Simulation KW - Surface temperature KW - Laser powder bed fusion PY - 2023 DO - https://doi.org/10.1016/j.addma.2023.103854 SN - 2214-8604 VL - 78 SP - 1 EP - 16 PB - Elsevier B.V. AN - OPUS4-58825 LA - eng AD - Bundesanstalt fuer Materialforschung und -pruefung (BAM), Berlin, Germany ER - TY - CONF A1 - Kempf, A. A1 - Kruse, Julius A1 - Madia, Mauro A1 - Hilgenberg, Kai T1 - Correlation between quasistatic und fatigue properties of additively manufactured AlSi10Mg using Laser Powder Bed Fusion N2 - In order to find a resource efficient approach for the fatigue lifetime prediction of laser powder bed fusion (L-PBF) processed AlSi10Mg material, results of tensile and fatigue tests were compared. The specimens were manufactured with three different L-PBF machines and studied in different heat treatment conditions (as-built, annealed, T6 heat treated). The investigations showed that the high attainable tensile strength properties after the manufacturing process are not beneficial in the high cycle fatigue (HCF) regime. In contrast, the applied heat treatments, which lead typically to a decrease of ultimate tensile strength, improved dramatically the fatigue behavior. Additionally, a clear correlation between the elongation at fracture and HCF resistance has been found for individual heat treatment conditions. This empiric relationship provides an estimation of the fatigue resistance in the presence of material defects and can be implemented in part and process approvals. T2 - Fatigue Design 2021 CY - Online meeting DA - 17.11.2021 KW - Additive Manufacturing KW - Laser powder bed fusion KW - AlSi10Mg KW - Tensile properties KW - Fatigue properties PY - 2021 AN - OPUS4-53792 LA - eng AD - Bundesanstalt fuer Materialforschung und -pruefung (BAM), Berlin, Germany ER - TY - CONF A1 - Scheuschner, Nils A1 - Heinrichsdorff, F. A1 - Oster, Simon A1 - Uhlmann, E. A1 - Polte, J. A1 - Gordei, A. A1 - Hilgenberg, Kai T1 - In-situ monitoring of the laser powder bed fusion process by thermography, optical tomography and melt pool monitoring for defect detection N2 - For the wide acceptance of the use of additive manufacturing (AM), it is required to provide reliable testing methods to ensure the safety of the additively manufactured parts. A possible solution could be the deployment of in-situ monitoring during the build process. However, for laser powder bed fusion using metal powders (PBF-LB/M ) only a few in-situ monitoring techniques are commercially available (optical tomography, melt pool monitoring) but not researched to an extent that allows to guarantee the adherence to strict quality and safety standards. In this contribution, we present results of a study of PBF-LB/M printed parts made of the nickel-based superalloy Haynes 282. The formation of defects was provoked by local variations of the process parameters and monitored by thermography, optical tomography and melt pool monitoring. Afterwards, the defects were characterized by computed tomography (CT) to identify the detection limits of the used in-situ techniques. T2 - LiM Conference 2023 - Lasers in Manufacturing CY - Munich, Germany DA - 26.06.2023 KW - Thermography KW - High temperature alloys KW - Additive Manufacturing KW - PBF-LB/M PY - 2023 AN - OPUS4-57947 LA - eng AD - Bundesanstalt fuer Materialforschung und -pruefung (BAM), Berlin, Germany ER - TY - CONF A1 - Merz, Benjamin A1 - Mohr, Gunther A1 - Hilgenberg, Kai T1 - Position Detection for Hybrid Repair of gas turbine blades using PBF-LB/M N2 - This poster presents a workflow for camera-based position detection of components within PBF-LB/M machines. This enables a hybrid repair process of highly stressed components such as gas turbine blades using PBF-LB/M. T2 - Kuratoriumsführung CY - Berlin, Germany DA - 21.06.2022 KW - Additive Manufacturing KW - PBF-LB/M KW - Position detection KW - Camera KW - Image processing PY - 2022 AN - OPUS4-56587 LA - eng AD - Bundesanstalt fuer Materialforschung und -pruefung (BAM), Berlin, Germany ER - TY - CONF A1 - Altenburg, Simon A1 - Scheuschner, Nils A1 - Gumenyuk, Andrey A1 - Straße, Anne A1 - Maierhofer, Christiane T1 - Towards the determination of real process temperatures in the LMD process my multispectral thermography N2 - Due to the rapid thermal cycles involved in additive manufacturing of metals, high internal stresses and peculiar microstructures occur, which influence the parts mechanical properties. To systematically examine their formation, in-process measurements of the temperature are needed. Since the part emissivity is strongly inhomogeneous and rapidly changing in the process, the applicability of thermography for the determination of thermodynamic temperatures is limited. Measuring the thermal radiation in different wavelengths simultaneously, temperature and emissivity can be separated. Here, we present results of a preliminary study using multispectral thermography to obtain real temperatures and emissivities in directed energy deposition (DED) processes. T2 - Thermosense: Thermal Infrared Applications XLIII CY - Online meeting DA - 12.04.2021 KW - Additive Manufacturing KW - Process monitoring KW - Multispectral thermography KW - Laser metal deposition KW - TES KW - LMD KW - Temperature emissivity separation PY - 2021 DO - https://doi.org/10.1117/12.2587881 AN - OPUS4-52515 LA - eng AD - Bundesanstalt fuer Materialforschung und -pruefung (BAM), Berlin, Germany ER - TY - CONF A1 - Epperlein, Martin A1 - Hilgenberg, Kai A1 - Hellfritz, Benjamin A1 - Löffler, Frank T1 - Digitisation of the quality infrastructure - using the example of additive manufacturing N2 - Rapidly advancing technologies and progressive digitisation are posing challenges to the established quality infrastructure (QI). In response, the key stakeholders of the German QI established the initiative QI-Digital aimed at developing new solutions for modern quality assurance. One of the central use cases herein is quality assurance for additive manufacturing, in which a fully interlinked additive manufacturing process chain is established. The intention is to collect and process data from each production step, allowing for a comprehensive digital view of the physical material flow. Within this process chain, prototypes of digital QI tools like machine readable standards and digital quality certificates are being demonstrated, tested, and evolved. This is complemented by research on the process level, comprising the evaluation and refinement of methods for in-situ and ex-situ quality assurance, as well as algorithms for registration, reduction, and analysis of process data. This paper presents the status, goals, and vision for the QI-Digital use case additive manufacturing. T2 - Metal Additive Manufacturing Conference 2023 CY - Wien, Austria DA - 17.10.2023 KW - Additive Manufacturing KW - Digitalisation KW - Quality Assurance PY - 2023 SP - 96 EP - 104 CY - Wien AN - OPUS4-58628 LA - eng AD - Bundesanstalt fuer Materialforschung und -pruefung (BAM), Berlin, Germany ER - TY - JOUR A1 - Mohr, Gunther A1 - Scheuschner, Nils A1 - Hilgenberg, Kai T1 - In situ heat accumulation by geometrical features obstructing heat flux and by reduced inter layer times in laser powder bed fusion of AISI 316L stainless steel N2 - Material qualification for laser powder bed fusion (L-PBF) processes are often based on results derived from additively manufactured (AM) bulk material or small density cubes, although it is well known that the part geometry has a tremendous influence on the heat flux and, therefore, on the thermal history of an AM component. This study shows experimentally the effect of simple geometrical obstructions to the heat flux on cooling behavior and solidification conditions of 316L stainless steel processed by L-PBF. Additionally, it respects two distinct inter layer times (ILT) as well as the build height of the parts. The cooling behavior of the parts is in-situ traced by infrared (IR) thermography during the built-up. The IR signals reveal significant differences in cooling conditions, which are correlated to differences in melt pool geometries. The acquired data and results can be used for validation of computational models and improvements of quality assurance. KW - Selective laser beam melting KW - Thermography KW - Melt pool depth KW - Inter layer time KW - Ppreheating temperature KW - Additive Manufacturing PY - 2020 UR - https://nbn-resolving.org/urn:nbn:de:kobv:b43-512549 DO - https://doi.org/10.1016/j.procir.2020.09.030 VL - 94 SP - 155 EP - 160 PB - Elsevier B.V. AN - OPUS4-51254 LA - eng AD - Bundesanstalt fuer Materialforschung und -pruefung (BAM), Berlin, Germany ER -