About this Abstract |
Meeting |
2024 TMS Annual Meeting & Exhibition
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Symposium
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Additive Manufacturing Modeling, Simulation and Machine Learning
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Presentation Title |
F-65: Microstructure Control via Coordinated Dual-beam Laser Scanning |
Author(s) |
Kyle Graham Perkins, Ioannis Bitharas, Andrew J Moore |
On-Site Speaker (Planned) |
Kyle Graham Perkins |
Abstract Scope |
Recent PBF research has produced high-density (>99.9%) components, leading to increased efforts to understand microstructure development during solidification. We present results from our research into an experimentally calibrated semi-analytical model to provide fast emulation of the thermal gradient (G) and solidification velocity (V) that govern grain growth during solidification. This efficient computational approach enables us to investigate the effect of a wide range of parameters, significantly reducing the computational expense of other numeral modelling techniques. Results show that single scanning beams used in raster scanning strategies struggle to achieve the thermal gradient required for equiaxed grain growth although a secondary heat source via a dual beam configuration can reduce the thermal gradient across the melt pool boundary, it is not sufficient to produce equiaxed grains. However, we show that increasing the solidification rate can achieve a large volume of equiaxed grains and potential methods are discussed. |
Proceedings Inclusion? |
Planned: |
Keywords |
Additive Manufacturing, Modeling and Simulation, Solidification |