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JOURNAL OF MATERIALS ENGINEERING AND PERFORMANCE
Volume 27, Issue 1, Pages 32-43Publisher
SPRINGER
DOI: 10.1007/s11665-017-2874-5
Keywords
additive manufacturing; defect modeling; powder bed fusion; powder coating; residual stresses and distortion
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- DARPA [HR001-12-C-0037]
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Powder bed additive manufacturing offers unmatched capabilities. The deposition resolution achieved is extremely high enabling the production of innovative functional products and materials. Achieving the desired final quality is, however, hampered by many potential defects that have to be managed in due course of the manufacturing process. Defects observed in products manufactured via powder bed fusion have been studied experimentally. In this effort we have relied on experiments reported in the literature and-when experimental data were not sufficient-we have performed additional experiments providing an extended foundation for defect analysis. There is large interest in reducing the effort and cost of additive manufacturing process qualification and certification using integrated computational material engineering. A prerequisite is, however, that numerical methods can indeed capture defects. A multiscale multiphysics platform is developed and applied to predict and explain the origin of several defects that have been observed experimentally during laser-based powder bed fusion processes. The models utilized are briefly introduced. The ability of the models to capture the observed defects is verified. The root cause of the defects is explained by analyzing the numerical results thus confirming the ability of numerical methods to provide a foundation for rapid process qualification.
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