| About this Abstract | 
   
    | Meeting | 2023 TMS Annual Meeting & Exhibition | 
   
    | Symposium | Powder Materials Processing and Fundamental Understanding | 
   
    | Presentation Title | Characterising the Vapour Plume and Preferential Vaporisation of Alloy Elements during Laser Powder Bed Fusion Additive Manufacturing | 
   
    | Author(s) | Anna C.M. Getley, Samy  Hocine, Elena  Ruckh, Rubén  Lambert-Garcia, Sebastian  Marussi, Peter D Lee, Mike  Towrie, Chu Lun Alex  Leung | 
   
    | On-Site Speaker (Planned) | Anna C.M. Getley | 
   
    | Abstract Scope | Additive Manufacturing (AM) is regarded as the next revolution in the manufacturing sector. Laser Powder Bed Fusion (LPBF), a subset of AM, enables the design freedom to create progressively complex metal components; during the process, a bed of alloy powder is fused into solid via layer-wise melting with a high-power laser. A critical limitation influencing LPBF is preferential vaporisation; a phenomenon describing the unequal loss of alloy elements from the laser-matter interaction zone, due to differing physical properties. Preferential vaporisation has been sparingly observed in AM-printed parts through destructive techniques. This study presents the first demonstration of in situ synchrotron radiography and chemical characterisation techniques to analyse surface composition changes in a non-destructive fashion. We apply these experimental methods to link keyhole dimensions with surface chemistry, and further report a process map of preferential vaporisation across an AM track, as a function of LPBF parameters, over multiple industrial alloys. | 
   
    | Proceedings Inclusion? | Planned: | 
 
    | Keywords | Additive Manufacturing, Other, Characterization |