TY - THES A1 - Fritsch, Tobias T1 - A Multiscale Analysis of Additively Manufactured Lattice Structures N2 - Additive Manufacturing (AM) in terms of laser powder-bed fusion (L-PBF) offers new prospects regarding the design of parts and enables therefore the production of lattice structures. These lattice structures shall be implemented in various industrial applications (e.g. gas turbines) for reasons of material savings or cooling channels. However, internal defects, residual stress, and structural deviations from the nominal geometry are unavoidable. In this work, the structural integrity of lattice structures manufactured by means of L-PBF was non-destructively investigated on a multiscale approach. A workflow for quantitative 3D powder analysis in terms of particle size, particle shape, particle porosity, inter-particle distance and packing density was established. Synchrotron computed tomography (CT) was used to correlate the packing density with the particle size and particle shape. It was also observed that at least about 50% of the powder porosity was released during production of the struts. Struts are the component of lattice structures and were investigated by means of laboratory CT. The focus was on the influence of the build angle on part porosity and surface quality. The surface topography analysis was advanced by the quantitative characterisation of re-entrant surface features. This characterisation was compared with conventional surface parameters showing their complementary information, but also the need for AM specific surface parameters. The mechanical behaviour of the lattice structure was investigated with in-situ CT under compression and successive digital volume correlation (DVC). The Deformation was found to be knot-dominated, and therefore the lattice folds unit cell layer wise. The residual stress was determined experimentally for the first time in such lattice structures. Neutron diffraction was used for the non-destructive 3D stress investigation. The principal stress directions and values were determined in dependence of the number of measured directions. While a significant uni-axial stress state was found in the strut, a more hydrostatic stress state was found in the knot. In both cases, strut and knot, seven directions were at least needed to find reliable principal stress directions. KW - Additive manufacturing KW - Laser powder bed fusion KW - Residual stress KW - Surface roughness analysis KW - Computed tomography PY - 2019 U6 - http://nbn-resolving.de/urn/resolver.pl?urn:nbn:de:kobv:517-opus4-470418 SP - 1 EP - 97 PB - Universitätsbibliothek Potsdam CY - Potsdam AN - OPUS4-53476 LA - eng AD - Bundesanstalt fuer Materialforschung und -pruefung (BAM), Berlin, Germany ER - TY - CONF A1 - Mishurova, Tatiana A1 - Artzt, K. A1 - Haubrich, J. A1 - Requena, G. A1 - Bruno, Giovanni T1 - New aspects about the search for the most relevant parameters optimizing SLM materials N2 - Using non-optimum combination of manufacturing parameters in selective laser melting (SLM) may lead to reduction of quality of component: defects generation, distortion of geometry and even cracking. Usually, the optimization of parameters is performed by changing volumetric energy density (Ev) and selecting parameters giving low porosity values. However, not only low porosity but also stable microstructure and low residual stresses will help to achieve advanced mechanical behavior of the component. In present work, we investigated cuboid-shaped Ti-6Al-4V samples produced with different manufacturing parameters. The parameters leading to the same Ev were considered as well as parameters which are not included in Ev. Residual stresses in subsurface region were investigated by synchrotron X-ray diffraction, which allows to penetrate around 100 µm from the surface therefore overcome the problem of high roughness of SLM components without additional sample preparation. Only tensile stresses were found along the building direction, that can play critical role especially during cyclic loading. The pore shape and spatial distribution obtained by computed tomography varied for samples produced with the same Ev. However, by using some process parameters it was possible to decrease residual stresses and obtain uniform α+β Ti microstructure and relatively low porosity. Additionally, it was found that not included in Ev (e.g., base plate position, focus distance) should be considered as additional manufacturing parameters during SLM process. T2 - ESIAM 2019 CY - Trondheim, Norway DA - 09.09.2019 KW - Additive manufacturing KW - Computed tomography KW - Residual stress PY - 2019 AN - OPUS4-49216 LA - eng AD - Bundesanstalt fuer Materialforschung und -pruefung (BAM), Berlin, Germany ER - TY - THES A1 - Schumacher, David T1 - Zerstörungsfreie Prüfung mit photonenzählenden und spektralauflösenden Röntgenmatrixdetektoren am Beispiel von Werkstoffverbunden N2 - Diese Arbeit beschäftigt sich mit den Eigenschaften der photonenzählenden und spektralauflösenden Detektortechnik und möglichen Anwendungsgebieten in der zerstörungsfreien Prüfung. Dabei wurden konventionelle und photonenzählende Detektortechniken hinsichtlich der Bildqualität und Anwendbarkeit bei unterschiedlichen Prüfaufgaben verglichen und untersucht, inwiefern sich die Energieschwellwertsetzung auf die erreichbare Bildqualität und eine Materialdiskriminierbarkeit bei verschiedenen radiographischen Verfahren auswirkt. Anhand von Anwendungsbeispielen wurden diese Eigenschaften und deren Auswirkung auf das Messergebnis analysiert. Neben der Radiographie wurden auch dreidimensionale Verfahren wie CT und Laminographie berücksichtigt. Als eine der wichtigsten Eigenschaften der photonenzählenden Detektortechnik wurden zunächst die Energieauflösung des photonenzählenden Detektors und die Homogenität der Energieantwort über größere Detektorbereiche bestimmt. Dabei stellte sich heraus, dass die Energieauflösung eines abgegrenzten Detektorbereichs ca. 32 % bei 60 keV beträgt und die Streuung in der Energieantwort der einzelnen Detektorbereiche ca. 12 % ausmacht, woraus sich eine Gesamtunsicherheit in der spektralen Detektorantwort von ca. 44 % ergibt. Die geringe Energieauflösung und das stark heterogene Verhalten der Detektorbereiche ergeben sich vor allem aus der Detektorelektronik, welche nur eine globale Energieschwellwertsetzung zulässt. Trotz dieser Einschränkungen konnte demonstriert werden, dass auch konventionelle radiographische Verfahren, wie Radiographie oder CT, vom Einsatz der photonenzählenden Technik profitieren. So ist es mit dieser Technik möglich, bei sehr geringen Dosisleistungen (z.B. aufgrund der Durchstrahlung großer Wandstärken von dichten Materialien) noch sehr gute Bildqualitäten zu erreichen. Die hohe Dynamik und Kontrastempfindlichkeit dieser Technik begünstigen die Inspektion von Leichtbauwerkstoffen wie Faserverbunde, was anhand von Vergleichen mit herkömmlicher Detektortechnik und anderen ZfP-Verfahren gezeigt werden konnte. Daneben konnte durch den Einsatz der Energieschwellwertsetzung der Einfluss von nicht bildzeichnender Streustrahlung im Röntgenbild um bis zu 20 % reduziert werden. Die Auswirkungen von Aufhärtungseffekten in der CT konnten sogar um bis zu Faktor 1 000 (in der mittleren quadratischen Abweichung), im Vergleich zu herkömmlicher Detektortechnik, reduziert werden. Der Einsatz von photonenzählender Detektortechnik mit Röntgenblitzröhren ist hingegen nicht sinnvoll, da aufgrund der hohen Photonendichte pro Puls und einer endlichen Totzeit des Detektors in der Größenordnung der Pulsbreite eines Blitzes nur ein geringes Signal detektiert werden kann. Im Hinblick auf eine Materialdiskriminierbarkeit konnte demonstriert werden, dass im Fall einer Radiographie anhand der Energieschwellwertsetzung im Detektor eine materialstärkenunabhängige Diskriminierung zwischen zwei Materialien (hier: Al und Fe) erzielt werden kann. Unter Einsatz mehrerer Energiefenster und eines Verfahrens der explorativen und multivariaten Datenanalyse konnte eine materialaufgelöste CT eines Multi-Material-Phantoms erreicht werden, wobei die Schwächungskoeffizienten der enthaltenen Materialien im relevanten Energieberiech teilweise sehr dicht beieinander lagen. Neben Radiographie und CT wurde auch die Möglichkeit einer materialaufgelösten Laminographie am Beispiel eines glasfaserverstärkten Rotorblatts untersucht. Anhand der Energieschwellwertsetzung war nicht nur eine eindeutige Trennung der Glasfasern von der Epoxidharzmatrix möglich, sondern auch eine signifikante Reduzierung der durch die Laminographie entstandenen Artefakte. Der damit verbundene Gewinn an Information führt zu einer verbesserten Aussagefähigkeit des Untersuchungsergebnisses, was letztendlich eine gesteigerte Betriebssicherheit zur Folge hat. N2 - This thesis investigates the properties of photon counting and energy discriminating digital detector arrays and possible applications in the field of non-destructive testing. Conventional integrating detector technology was compared with photon counting technology in terms of image quality and applicability in different inspection tasks. The impact of internal energy thresholding on material discriminability and achievable image quality was investigated for different radiological methods. The properties of photon counting detectors and their impact on the measurement result were analyzed for different applications including three-dimensional methods such as CT and laminography in addition to radiographic testing. Energy resolution is one of the most important properties of photon counting technology. Therefore, energy resolution was initially determined in addition to the homogeneity of the energy Response across the detector. It was found that the energy resolution amounts to approx. 32 % for a 60 keV monoenergetic spectrum (241Am). In combination with the variance in the response of single detector tiles of approx. 12 % the total uncertainty in the detector energy response appears to approx. 44 %. This low energy resolution and strongly heterogenous detector response result mainly from the detector electronics which only allow setting global energy thresholds. Despite these limitations it was demonstrated that even conventional single energy techniques, such as radiography or CT, benefit from photon counting technology. Thus, this technology allows to gain high quality images even at very low dose rates which might occur e.g. at high wall thickness Penetration of dense materials. The high dynamic range and high contrast sensitivity facilitate the inspection of lightweight materials such as fiber composites which was shown by comparison with integrating technology and other NDT methods. Furthermore, the use of energy thresholding enables to reduce the influence of non-imaging scattered radiation within the X-ray image by about 20 %. The impact of beam hardening artefacts in CT was reduced even up to a factor of 1 000, compared to conventional integrating detector technology. In contrast, the use of photon counting technology with x-ray flash tubes is not useful, since the high photon density within a single flash and a finite dead time of the detector only yield a very low signal. In terms of material discriminability, it was shown that due to energy thresholding a thickness Independent material separation between two materials (here: Al and Fe) can be achieved in the case of a radiography. By using more than two energy windows in combination with multivariate methods of data analysis, a material resolved CT of a multi-material phantom was performed in which six materials were separated distinctly despite very close attenuation coefficients in the relevant energy range. In addition to radiography and CT, the possibility of a material resolved laminography was investigated by means of a glass fiber reinforced wind turbine blade. In addition to a distinct separation between glass fibers and resin matrix, a significant reduction of cross artefacts that inherently arise from the laminography could be achieved. This gain in information yields a higher significance of the measurement and hence an increased reliability of the component or the whole system. T3 - BAM Dissertationsreihe - 165 KW - Zerstörungsfreie Prüfung KW - Photonenzählende Detektoren KW - Radiographie KW - Laminographie KW - Computer-Tomographie KW - Dual-Energy KW - Nondestructive testing KW - Photon counting detectors KW - Radiography KW - Laminography KW - Computed tomography KW - Dual energy PY - 2019 U6 - http://nbn-resolving.de/urn/resolver.pl?urn:nbn:de:kobv:b43-500327 SN - 1613-4249 VL - 165 SP - 1 EP - 172 PB - Bundesanstalt für Materialforschung und -prüfung (BAM) CY - Berlin AN - OPUS4-50032 LA - deu AD - Bundesanstalt fuer Materialforschung und -pruefung (BAM), Berlin, Germany ER - TY - CONF A1 - Schob, D. A1 - Sagradov, I. A1 - Roszak, R. A1 - Sparr, H. A1 - Franke, R. A1 - Ziegenhorn, M. A1 - Kupsch, Andreas A1 - Léonard, Fabien A1 - Müller, Bernd R. A1 - Bruno, Giovanni T1 - Material and damage behaviour of 3D printed PA12 under cyclic loading N2 - The material and damage behaviour of additively manufactured polyamide 12 (PA12) under dynamic loading was characterized by cyclic tests and microstructure analysis. The results were used to develop a numerical material and damage model. In a recent study, it was shown that the material and damage behaviour of 3D printed PA12 under quasistatic loading is simulated in a realistic way by coupling the material model by Chaboche and the damage model by Gurson-Tvergaard-Needleman (GTN). Using microscopy, X-ray refraction, and computed tomography, a porosity of about 5% was evaluated. These results served as a starting point for the present work. For the dynamic load, both the previously used Chaboche model and the GTN model were extended. Furthermore, the temperature was measured during the experiment and the self-heating effect was observed. Therefore, a temperaturedependent material parameters for the simulation were introduced. Considering the results of mechanical experiments, microstructural investigations, and self-heating effects, a good agreement between Experiment and numerical simulation could be achieved. T2 - VI International Conference on Computational Modeling of Fracture and Failure of Materials and Structures CY - Brunswick, Germany DA - 12.06.2019 KW - Polyamide 12 KW - Selective Laser Sintering (SLS) KW - Viscoplasticity KW - Chaboche model KW - GTN model KW - X-ray refraction KW - Computed tomography PY - 2019 AN - OPUS4-48335 LA - eng AD - Bundesanstalt fuer Materialforschung und -pruefung (BAM), Berlin, Germany ER - TY - CONF A1 - Evans, Alexander A1 - Thiede, Tobias A1 - Mishurova, Tatiana A1 - Léonard, Fabien A1 - Laquai, René A1 - Ulbricht, Alexander A1 - Serrano Munoz, Itziar A1 - Müller, Bernd R. A1 - Bruno, Giovanni T1 - Non destructive characterization in Additive manufacturing N2 - An overview of non destructive characterisation in additively manufactured materials using computed tomography, refraction and diffraction based stress analysis T2 - BAM-IFW workshop CY - IFW Dresden, Germany DA - 28.03.2019 KW - Residual stress analysis KW - Additive manufacturing KW - Computed tomography KW - Diffraction KW - X-ray refraction PY - 2019 AN - OPUS4-49842 LA - eng AD - Bundesanstalt fuer Materialforschung und -pruefung (BAM), Berlin, Germany ER - TY - CONF A1 - Evsevleev, Sergei A1 - Mishurova, Tatiana A1 - Sevostianov, Igor A1 - Garcés, Gerardo A1 - Requena, Guillermo A1 - Cabeza, Sandra A1 - Bruno, Giovanni T1 - Load transfer and damage evolution in multiphase Al alloy matrix composites under uniaxial compression N2 - Aluminum alloys are extensively used in the automotive industry. Particularly, squeeze casting production of Al-Si alloys is employed in the conception of metal matrix composites (MMC) for combustion engines. Such materials are of a high interest since they allow combining improved mechanical properties and reduced weight and hence improve efficiency. We investigate two types of MMCs, which can be potentially used for production of combustion engine pistons: 1) a near-eutectic cast AlSi12CuMgNi alloy reinforced with 15%vol. Al2O3 random planar oriented short fibers and 2) the same alloy reinforced with 7%vol. Al2O3 random planar oriented short fibers + 15%vol. SiC particles. Complex 3D microstructure of the samples in as-cast condition, consisting of four and five phases (Al matrix, eutectic Si, intermetallics, Al2O3 fibers and SiC particles) was investigated by synchrotron computed tomography (CT). Advanced methods based on machine learning were applied for segmentation of all phases. This allowed extracting quantitative information such as volume fraction, shape and interconnectivity of every phase. In-situ compression tests during neutron diffraction experiments were used to track the load transfer among phases, while CT on pre-strained samples to monitor and quantify damage. A micromechanical model was developed to simulate the evolution of the internal stress of each phase during uniaxial compression. We showed that in composites with the Al2O3 fiber mat plane perpendicular to the load axis the Al-alloy matrix presents a large hydrostatic stress component, i.e. undergoes compression also in the direction transverse to the external load. This feature holds with and without the addition of SiC ceramic reinforcement and is absent in the case when the Al2O3 fiber mat plane is parallel to the load axis. We show, that the intermetallics play a decisive role at very high loads, when all other reinforcement phases suffer (extensive) damage. The addition of SiC particles does alleviate the load on the Al2O3 fibers, on the eutectic Si, and on the intermetallic phases in both cases of parallel and orthogonal (to the load axis) Al2O3 fiber orientation. Apart from the beneficial addition of ceramic reinforcement, the presence of intermetallic phase and eutectic silicon, forming an interconnected network even at high loads, when single particles break, confers peculiar properties to these multi-phase composites. T2 - The 3rd International Conference on Light Materials CY - Manchester, UK DA - 05.11.2019 KW - Aluminum alloy KW - Metal Matrix Composite KW - Computed tomography KW - Neutron diffraction KW - Stress analysis KW - Load partition PY - 2019 AN - OPUS4-49640 LA - eng AD - Bundesanstalt fuer Materialforschung und -pruefung (BAM), Berlin, Germany ER - TY - CONF A1 - von Werder, Julia A1 - Gardei, André A1 - Meng, Birgit ED - Caprai, V. ED - Brouwers, H. J. H. T1 - Functionalization of fibres for cement-based materials - selected test methods N2 - The low tensile strength of cement-based materials can be improved by the addition of fibres. In a joint research project, an industrial partner designed special coatings for polymer and carbon fibres by integrating surfactants and hydrophilic compounds. Aim of the developed functionalization was to ensure an even coverage of the fibre surfaces and to anchor them chemically in the cement-based matrix. Task of the BAM was to quantify the effect of the improved bond. In a first step a workable mortar adjusted to the strength of the tested fibres was developed and the fibre distribution assessed by light microscopy and computed tomography. To test the new coating for its efficiency to prevent cracking during hardening and to improve the loadbearing behaviour new test setups were developed or existing methods were adjusted. The experiments showed that the functionalization leads to a reduction of the crack area measured after the exposure of the wet mortar to strong drying conditions in the wind channel. Regarding the Efficiency to mitigate shrinkage cracks the functionalisation turned out to be more efficient for fibres made from polyacrylonitrile (PAN) than for carbon fibres. An improvement of the tensile strength after cracking of the cementitious matrix could only be documented for the coated carbon fibres. It could be quantified, however, only in the three-point bending tests because the fibres turned out to be too brittle for the applied single fibre pull-through test. T2 - 2nd International Conference on Sustainable Building Materials CY - Eindhoven, Netherlands DA - 12.08.2019 KW - Fibres KW - Functionalization KW - Mortar KW - Computed tomography KW - Shrinkage PY - 2019 VL - 5 SP - 16 EP - 25 AN - OPUS4-49480 LA - eng AD - Bundesanstalt fuer Materialforschung und -pruefung (BAM), Berlin, Germany ER - TY - JOUR A1 - Khrapov, D. A1 - Surmeneva, M. A1 - Koptioug, A. A1 - Evsevleev, Sergei A1 - Léonard, Fabien A1 - Bruno, Giovanni A1 - Surmenev, R. T1 - X-ray computed tomography of multiple-layered scaffolds with controlled gradient cell lattice structures fabricated via additive manufacturing N2 - In this paper we report on the characterization by X-ray computed tomography of calcium phosphate (CaP) and polycaprolactone (PCL) coatings on Ti-6Al-4V alloy scaffolds used as a material for medical implants. The cylindrical scaffold has greater porosity of the inner part than the external part, thus, mimicking trabecular and cortical bone, respectively. The prismatic scaffolds have uniform porosity. Surface of the scaffolds was modified with calcium phosphate (CaP) and polycaprolactone (PCL) by dip-coating to improve biocompatibility and mechanical properties. Computed tomography performed with X-ray and synchrotron radiation revealed the defects of structure and morphology of CaP and PCL coatings showing small platelet-like and spider-web-like structures, respectively. KW - Additive manufacturing KW - Lattice structure KW - Multiple-layered scaffold KW - Coating KW - Medical implants KW - Computed tomography KW - Polycaprolactone KW - Calcium phosphate PY - 2019 U6 - http://nbn-resolving.de/urn/resolver.pl?urn:nbn:de:kobv:b43-471931 UR - http://stacks.iop.org/1742-6596/1145/i=1/a=012044 SN - 1742-6596 VL - 1145 SP - 012044, 1 EP - 7 PB - IOP AN - OPUS4-47193 LA - eng AD - Bundesanstalt fuer Materialforschung und -pruefung (BAM), Berlin, Germany ER - TY - CONF A1 - Léonard, Fabien T1 - Distance transforms and correlation maps: advanced impact damage characterisation in composite panels N2 - One of the great strengths of X-ray computed tomography over conventional inspection methods (ultrasound, thermography, radiography) is that it can image damage in 3D. However for curved or deformed composite panels, it can be difficult to automatically ascribe the damage to specific plies or inter-ply interfaces. An X-ray computed tomography (CT) data processing methodology is developed to extract the through-thickness distribution of damage in curved or deformed composite panels. The method is applied to [(0°/90°)2]s carbon fibre reinforced polymer (CFRP) panels subjected low velocity impact damage (5 J up to 20 J) providing 3D ply-by-ply damage visualisation and analysis. Our distance transform approach allows slices to be taken that approximately follow the composite curvature allowing the impact damage to be separated, visualised and quantified in 3D on a ply-by-ply basis. In this way the interply delaminations have been mapped, showing characteristic peanut shaped delaminations with the major axis oriented with the fibres in the ply below the interface. This registry to the profile of the panel constitutes a significant improvement in our ability to characterise impact damage in composite laminates and extract relevant measurements from X-ray CT datasets. T2 - Dagstuhl Seminar 19151 Quantitative data visualisation challenge CY - Dagstuhl, Germany DA - 11.04.2019 KW - Computed tomography KW - X-ray computed tomography KW - Data processing PY - 2019 AN - OPUS4-47830 LA - eng AD - Bundesanstalt fuer Materialforschung und -pruefung (BAM), Berlin, Germany ER - TY - CONF A1 - Léonard, Fabien A1 - Bruno, Giovanni T1 - On nominal-actual comparisons for additive manufacturing applications N2 - Nominal-actual comparisons are routinely performed to compare a manufactured specimen to a reference specimen. X-ray Computed Tomography (CT) has brought a profound change in the way that tolerance verifications are performed in industry, by allowing the inner and outer geometries of an object to be measured, without the need for external access or destructive testing. As a results, CT is increasingly used in additive manufacturing applications, where a nominal-actual comparison performed between the digital model (CAD file), used as an input for the 3D printer, and the CT volume from the printed part, can provide invaluable information as to the accuracy of the printing process. However, the nominal-actual comparison process is somewhat different when applied to additively manufactured specimens by comparison to conventionally manufactured specimens. T2 - 9th Conference on Industrial Computed Tomography CY - Padova, Italy DA - 14.02.2019 KW - Computed tomography KW - X-ray computed tomography KW - Implants PY - 2019 AN - OPUS4-47832 LA - eng AD - Bundesanstalt fuer Materialforschung und -pruefung (BAM), Berlin, Germany ER -