TY - JOUR A1 - Becker, Tina A1 - Altenburg, Simon A1 - Scheuschner, Nils A1 - Breese, Philipp Peter A1 - Metz, C. A1 - Hilgenberg, Kai A1 - Maierhofer, Christiane T1 - In-situ monitoring of the Laser Powder Bed Fusion build process via bi- chromatic optical tomography N2 - As metal additive manufacturing (AM) is entering industrial serial production of safety relevant components, the need for reliable process qualification is growing continuously. Especially in strictly regulated industries, such as aviation, the use of AM is strongly dependent on ensuring consistent quality of components. Because of its numerous influencing factors, up to now, the metal AM process is not fully controllable. Today, expensive part qualification processes for each single component are common in industry. This contribution focusses on bi-chromatic optical tomography as a new approach for AM in-situ quality control. In contrast to classical optical tomography, the emitted process radiation is monitored simultaneously with two temperature calibrated cameras at two separate wavelength bands. This approach allows one to estimate the local maximum temperatures during the manufacturing process, thus increases the comparability of monitoring data of different processes. A new process information level at low investment cost is reachable, compared to, e.g., infrared thermography. T2 - LANE 2022 CY - Fürth, Germany DA - 04.08.2022 KW - Optical tomography KW - Additive Manufacturing KW - L-PBF KW - In-process monitoring PY - 2022 UR - https://nbn-resolving.org/urn:nbn:de:kobv:b43-560270 DO - https://doi.org/10.1016/j.procir.2022.08.035 SN - 2212-8271 VL - 111 SP - 340 EP - 344 PB - Elsevier B.V. CY - Amsterdam AN - OPUS4-56027 LA - eng AD - Bundesanstalt fuer Materialforschung und -pruefung (BAM), Berlin, Germany ER - TY - CONF A1 - Altenburg, Simon A1 - Scheuschner, Nils A1 - Maierhofer, Christiane A1 - Mohr, Gunther A1 - Hilgenberg, Kai T1 - Thermography in laser powder bed fusion of metals: time over threshold as feasible feature in thermographic data N2 - Thermography is one on the most promising techniques for in-situ monitoring of metal additive manufacturing processes. Especially in laser powder bed fusion processes, the high process dynamics and the strong focus of the laser beam cause a very complex thermal history within the produced specimens, such as multiple heating cycles within single layer expositions. This complicates data interpretation, e.g., in terms of cooling rates. A quantity that is easily calculated is the time a specific area of the specimen is at a temperature above a chosen threshold value (TOT). Here, we discuss variations occurring in time-over-threshold-maps during manufacturing of an almost defect free cuboid specimen. T2 - 15th Quantitative InfraRed Thermography conference CY - Online meeting DA - 21.09.2020 KW - Additive Manufacturing KW - Process monitoring KW - Thermography KW - L-PBF KW - Time over threshold PY - 2020 DO - https://doi.org/10.21611/qirt.2020.005 SP - 1 EP - 5 PB - QIRT Council CY - Quebec, Canada AN - OPUS4-52014 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 - Unraveling thermal radiation by multispectral thermography: Real temperatures in LMD N2 - Additive manufacturing of metals offers the opportunity to build parts with a high degree of complexity without additional costs, opening a new space for design optimization. However, the processes are highly complex and due to the rapid thermal cycles involved, high internal stresses and peculiar microstructures occur, which influence the parts mechanical properties. To systematically examine the formation of internal stresses and the microstructure, in-process spatially resolved measurements of the part temperature are needed. If the emissivity of the inspected part is known, its thermodynamic temperature can be reconstructed by a suited radiometric model. However, in additive manufacturing of metals, the emissivity of the part surface is strongly inhomogeneous and rapidly changing due to variations of, e.g., the degree of oxidation, the material state and temperature. Thus, here, the applicability of thermography in the determination of thermodynamic temperatures is limited. However, measuring the process thermal radiation at different wavelengths simultaneously enables one to separate temperature and emissivity spatially resolved to obtain further insight into the process. Here, we present results of an initial study using multispectral thermography to obtain real temperatures and emissivities in the powderfree LMD process. 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 - Multispectral thermography KW - Laser metal deposition KW - TES KW - LMD KW - Temperature emissivity separation PY - 2021 AN - OPUS4-52514 LA - eng AD - Bundesanstalt fuer Materialforschung und -pruefung (BAM), Berlin, Germany ER - TY - CONF A1 - Altenburg, Simon A1 - Maierhofer, Christiane A1 - Mohr, Gunther A1 - Hilgenberg, Kai T1 - Process monitoring in LBM using thermography and optical tomography N2 - Additive manufacturing (AM) opens the route to a range of novel applications. However, the complexity of the manufacturing process poses a challenge to produce defect-free parts with a high reliability. Since process dynamics and resulting microstructures of AM parts are strongly influenced by the involved temperature fields and cooling rates, thermography is a valuable tool for process monitoring. Another approach to monitor the energy input into the part during process is the use of optical tomography. Common visual camera systems reach much higher spatial resolution than infrared thermography cameras, whereas infrared thermography provides a much higher temperature dynamic. Therefore, the combined application increases the depth of information. Here, we present first measurement results using a laser beam melting setup that allows simultaneous acquisition of thermography and optical tomography from the same point of view using a beam splitter. A high-resolution CMOS camera operating in the visible spectral range is equipped with a near infrared bandpass filter and images of the build plate are recorded with long-term exposure during the whole layer exposing time. Thus, areas that reach higher maximum temperature or are at elevated temperature for an extended period of time appear brighter in the images. The used thermography camera is sensitive to the mid wavelength infrared range and records thermal videos of each layer exposure at an acquisition rate close to 1 kHz. As a next step, we will use computer tomographic data of the built part as a reference for defect detection. This research was funded by BAM within the focus area Materials. T2 - 3rd International Symposium Additive Manufacturing (ISAM 2019) CY - Dresden, Germany DA - 30.01.2019 KW - Additive manufacturing KW - Laser beam melting KW - Thermography KW - Optical Tomography PY - 2019 AN - OPUS4-47299 LA - eng AD - Bundesanstalt fuer Materialforschung und -pruefung (BAM), Berlin, Germany ER - TY - CONF A1 - Altenburg, Simon A1 - Maierhofer, Christiane A1 - Straße, Anne A1 - Gumenyuk, Andrey A1 - Mohr, Gunther A1 - Hilgenberg, Kai T1 - Thermography in metal AM: Comparison of high-speed NIR thermography and MWIR thermography N2 - Additive manufacturing (AM) opens the route to a range of novel applications.However, the complexity of the manufacturing process poses a challenge for the production of defect-free parts with a high reliability. Since process dynamics and resulting microstructures of AM parts are strongly influenced by the involved temperature fields, thermography is a valuable tool for process surveillance. The high process temperatures in metal AM processes allow one to use cameras usually operating in the visible spectral range to detect the thermally emitted radiation from the process. In our work, we compare the results of first measurements during the manufacturing processes of a commercial laser metal deposition (LMD) setup and a laser beam melting (LBM) setup using a MWIR camera with those from a VIS high-speed camera with band pass filter in the NIR range. T2 - Additive Manufacturing Benchmarks 2018 CY - Gaithersburg, MA, USA DA - 18.06.2018 KW - Thermography KW - Additive manufacturing KW - Laser metal deposition KW - Laser beam melting KW - ProMoAM PY - 2018 AN - OPUS4-45401 LA - eng AD - Bundesanstalt fuer Materialforschung und -pruefung (BAM), Berlin, Germany ER - TY - CONF A1 - Scheuschner, Nils A1 - Altenburg, Simon A1 - Straße, Anne A1 - Gumenyuk, Andrey A1 - Maierhofer, Christiane T1 - In-situ thermographic monitoring of the laser metal deposition process N2 - In this paper shortwave infrared (SWIR) thermographic measurements of the manufacturing of thin single-line walls via laser metal deposition (LMD) are presented. As the thermographic camera is mounted fixed to the welding arm, an acceleration sensor was used to assist in reconstructing the spatial position from the predefined welding path. Hereby we could obtain data sets containing the size of the molten pool and the oxide covered areas as functions of the position in the workpiece. Furthermore, the influence of the acquisition wavelength onto the thermograms was investigated in a spectral range from 1250 nm to 1550 nm. All wavelengths turned out to be usable for the in-situ process monitoring of the LMD process. The longer wavelengths are shown to be beneficial for the lower temperature range, while shorter wavelengths show more details within the molten pool. T2 - Sim-AM 2019 - 2. International Conference on Simulation for Additive Manufacturing CY - Pavia, Italy DA - 11.09.2019 KW - Additive manufacturing KW - 3D printing KW - Thermography KW - Direct energy deposition KW - Laser Metal Deposition KW - 3D Druck KW - Laser Pulver Auftragsschweißen KW - Additive Fertigung KW - Thermografie PY - 2019 UR - http://congress.cimne.com/SIM-AM2019/frontal/Doc/proceedings.pdf SN - 978-84-949194-8-0 SP - 246 EP - 255 AN - OPUS4-49086 LA - eng AD - Bundesanstalt fuer Materialforschung und -pruefung (BAM), Berlin, Germany ER - TY - CONF A1 - Altenburg, Simon A1 - Scheuschner, Nils A1 - Pignatelli, Giuseppe A1 - Maierhofer, Christiane A1 - Straße, Anne A1 - Gornushkin, Igor B. A1 - Gumenyuk, Andrey T1 - Thermography and optical emission spectroscopy: Simultaneous temperature measurement during the LMD process N2 - For metal-based additive manufacturing, sensors and measuring systems for monitoring of the energy source, the build volume, the melt pool and the component geometry are already commercially available. Further methods of optics, spectroscopy and non-destructive testing are described in the literature as suitable for in-situ application, but there are only a few reports on practical implementations. Therefore, a new BAM project aims to develop process monitoring methods for the in-situ evaluation of the quality of additively manufactured metal components. In addition to passive and active thermography, this includes optical tomography, optical emission and absorption spectroscopy, eddy current testing, laminography, X-ray backscattering and photoacoustic methods. These methods are used in additive manufacturing systems for selective laser melting, laser metal deposition and wire arc additive manufacturing. To handle the sometimes huge amounts of data, algorithms for efficient preprocessing are developed and characteristics of the in-situ data are extracted and correlated to defects and inhomogeneities, which are determined using reference methods such as computer tomography and metallography. This process monitoring and fusion of data of different measurement techniques should result in a significant reduction of costly and time-consuming, destructive or non-destructive tests after the production of the component and at the same time reduce the production of scrap. Here, first results of simultaneous measurements of optical emission spectroscopy and thermography during the laser metal deposition process using 316L as building material are presented. Temperature values are extracted from spectroscopic data by fitting of blackbody emission spectra to the experimental data and compared with results from a thermographic camera. Measurements with and without powder flow reveal significant differences between welding at a pristine metal surface and previously melted positions on the build plate, illustrating the significant influence of the partial oxidation of the surface during the first welding process on subsequent welding. The measurement equipment can either be mounted stationary or following the laser path. While first results were obtained in the stationary mode, future applications for online monitoring of the build of whole parts in the mobile mode are planned. This research was funded by BAM within the focus area Material. T2 - 2nd international congress on welding, additive manufacturing and associated non-destructive testing CY - Metz, France DA - 05.06.2019 KW - Additive manufacturing KW - Laser metal deposition KW - Thermography KW - Optical emission spectroscopy KW - Process monitoring PY - 2019 AN - OPUS4-48228 LA - eng AD - Bundesanstalt fuer Materialforschung und -pruefung (BAM), Berlin, Germany ER -