TY - JOUR A1 - Heinl, M. A1 - Laumer, Tobias A1 - Bayer, F. A1 - Hausotte, Tino T1 - Temperature-dependent optical material properties of polymer powders regarding in-situ measurement techniques in additive manufacturing JF - Polymer Testing N2 - Due to the growing number of applications for Additive Manufacturing (AM), an increasing need for enhanced quality control methods exists. Here optical measurement techniques are often used for in-situ monitoring in AM. There is a great potential to standardize and improve applications of optical measurement devices in accordance to the increasing requirements of measuring tasks. Beside the optical material qualifications, especially process-oriented changes in optical effects are of great relevance for in-situ evaluations. The optical modifications may be attributed to aggregate specific phase transitions coming along with variable emitted wavelengths. A measuring setup with two integrations spheres and a heated process chamber have been developed to analyze the optical interactions of laser radiation and visual illumination with the powder. The process oriented analysis for selective laser sintering lead to improved operating conditions in the field of in-situ measurements in combination with an accurate evaluation of the absorption ratio of the examined powder. Y1 - 2018 U6 - https://doi.org/10.1016/j.polymertesting.2018.09.016 VL - 71 IS - October SP - 378 EP - 383 PB - Elsevier ER -