About this Abstract |
Meeting |
MS&T22: Materials Science & Technology
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Symposium
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AI for Big Data Problems in Advanced Imaging, Materials Modeling and Automated Synthesis
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Presentation Title |
Deep Neural Networks for Laser Absorptivity Prediction from Synchrotron X-ray Images |
Author(s) |
Runbo Jiang, Joseph Aroh, Brian Simonds, Tao Sun, Anthony Rollett |
On-Site Speaker (Planned) |
Runbo Jiang |
Abstract Scope |
The quantification of the amount of absorbed light is essential for understanding laser-material interactions and melt pool dynamics in order to minimize defects in additively manufactured metal components. The geometry of a vapor depression, also known as a keyhole, in melt pools formed during laser melting is closely related to laser absorptivity. This relationship has been observed by the state-of-the-art in situ high speed synchrotron x-ray visualization and integrating sphere radiometry. These two techniques create a temporally resolved dataset consisting of keyhole images and the corresponding laser absorptivity. In this work, convolutional neural networks (ResNet50 and ConvNeXt) and vision transformer, are adapted to interpret an unprocessed x-ray image of a keyhole and predict the amount of light absorbed. CAM is used to highlight class-specific regions of images.The high-dimensional features extracted by the CNNs are visualized using PCA to identity the behavior of the relationship between the input keyhole geometry and output laser absorptivity. |