Journal
METALS AND MATERIALS INTERNATIONAL
Volume 26, Issue 6, Pages 891-902Publisher
KOREAN INST METALS MATERIALS
DOI: 10.1007/s12540-019-00599-3
Keywords
Laser penetration depth; Absorptivity; Finite element method; Melt pool; Powder bed fusion
Funding
- Industrial Strategic Technology Development Program [10077677]
- Technology Innovation Program [20000201]
- Ministry of Trade, Industry and Energy (MOTIE, Korea)
- Korea Evaluation Institute of Industrial Technology (KEIT) [20000201] Funding Source: Korea Institute of Science & Technology Information (KISTI), National Science & Technology Information Service (NTIS)
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A systematic parametric study was conducted using thermal finite element method simulations in order to calibrate the laser penetration depth and absorptivity as a function of the laser power and scan speed for single tracks of Alloy 718 processed by laser powder bed fusion. A methodology was developed to calibrate both laser penetration depth and absorptivity using an algorithm proposed. Calibrated laser penetration depths and absorptivities captured experimentally observed variations of the melt pool depth and width with the laser power and scan speed, and showed strong correlations with a modified energy density, which is the laser power normalized by a square root of the scan speed (W/(m/s)(1/2)). The result indicated that the laser penetration depth and absorptivity heavily influence the determination of the melt pool depth and width, respectively. Variations of calibrated laser penetration depths and absorptivities with the laser power and scan speed reasonably depicted physical phenomena related with how incident laser beam interacts with the melt pool under different input energy densities, and were in quantitative agreement with those calculated from an analytical model and observed from the experiment. Graphic
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