TY - JOUR A1 - Laumer, Tobias A1 - Wudy, Katrin A1 - Drexler, Maximilian A1 - Amend, Philipp A1 - Roth, Stephan A1 - Drummer, Dietmar A1 - Schmidt, Michael T1 - Fundamental investigation of laser beam melting of polymers for additive manufacture T2 - Journal of Laser Applications N2 - By selective laser sintering (SLS), polymer powders are molten layer by layer to build conventional prototypes or parts in small series with geometrical freedom that cannot be achieved by other manufacturing technologies. The SLS process is mainly defined by the beam–matter interaction between powder material, laser radiation and different material characteristics by itself. However the determination of these different material characteristics is problematic because powder material imposes certain requirements that cannot sufficiently be provided by conventional measurement methods. Hence new fundamental investigation methods to determine the optical and thermal material characteristics like the thermal diffusivity, thermal conductivity, or the influence of different heating rates on the melting behavior are presented in this paper. The different analysis methods altogether improve the process of understanding to allow recommendations for the future process controlling. Y1 - 2014 UR - https://opus4.kobv.de/opus4-oth-regensburg/frontdoor/index/index/docId/4138 SN - 1938-1387 SN - 1042-346X VL - 26 IS - 4 PB - AIP Publishing ER -