About this Abstract |
Meeting |
2024 TMS Annual Meeting & Exhibition
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Symposium
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Additive Manufacturing: Process-induced Microstructures and Defects
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Presentation Title |
Using high frequency beam oscillation to control melt pool dynamics in laser melting revealed by in-situ x-ray imaging |
Author(s) |
Guannan Tang, Ziheng Wu, Samuel J. Clark, Andrey Meshkov, Subhrajit Roychowdhury, Benjamin Gould, Victor Ostroverkhov, Thomas Adcock, Steven J. Duclos, Kamel Fezzaa, Christopher Immer, Anthony Rollett, Gabe Guss, Yunhui Chen, Van Petegem Steven, Steven Matthew Hoover, Nicholas Lamprinakos, Kaila Bertsch, Jennifer Glerum, Runbo Jiang |
On-Site Speaker (Planned) |
Guannan Tang |
Abstract Scope |
The metal additive manufacturing industry is actively developing instruments and strategies to enable higher productivity, optimal build quality, and controllable as-built microstructure. A beam controlling technique, laser oscillation has shown potential in all these aspects in laser welding; Here, we utilized a synchrotron-based X-ray operando technique to image the dynamic keyhole oscillation in Ti-6Al-4V using a miniature powder bed fusion setup. We found good agreement between the experimental observations and simulations. The study revealed the continuous and periodic fluctuations in the characteristic keyhole parameters that are unique to the oscillating laser beam processing and responsible for the chevron pattern formation at solidification. In particular, despite the intrinsic longer-range fluctuation, the oscillating technique displayed potential for reducing keyhole instability, mitigating porosity formation, and altering surface topology. These insights on the oscillating keyhole dynamics can be useful for the future development and application of this technique. |
Proceedings Inclusion? |
Planned: |
Keywords |
Additive Manufacturing, Titanium, Modeling and Simulation |