| About this Abstract |
| Meeting |
MS&T23: Materials Science & Technology
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| Symposium
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Additive Manufacturing: Equipment, Instrumentation and In-Situ Process Monitoring
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| Presentation Title |
Two-color Melt Pool Thermal Imaging on Powder-blown Laser-DED to Advance Understanding of Melt Pool Thermal-fluid Physics |
| Author(s) |
Alexander J. Myers, Guadalupe Quirarte, Jack L Beuth, Jonathan A Malen |
| On-Site Speaker (Planned) |
Alexander J. Myers |
| Abstract Scope |
An experimental technique to image melt pool temperature with a commercial color camera for powder-blown laser directed energy deposition (L-DED) was developed. This technique relies on two-color thermography and high dynamic range photography to construct spatially-resolved thermal fields of 316L stainless steel melt pools from solidus to vaporization. By leveraging the principle of two-color thermal imaging, the need for a priori knowledge of melt pool emissivity and the camera’s view factor is negated. The system's ability to accurately measure temperature was validated with a calibrated tungsten filament. Comparing in-situ temperature measurements and ex-situ cross-sectional geometry to multi-physics computational fluid dynamics models provides a means of calibrating uncharacterized parameters, such as the temperature-dependence of surface tension. This state-of-the-art process monitoring tool provides multi-physics CFD model validation, cooling rates in the melt pool tail, and process mapping of critical melt pool behaviors such as the peak temperatures across processing space. |