Welding pool measurement using thermal array sensor

Chia-Hung Cho; Yi-Chen Hsieh; Hsin-Yi Chen

doi:10.1117/12.2187751

28 August 2015 Welding pool measurement using thermal array sensor

Chia-Hung Cho, Yi-Chen Hsieh, Hsin-Yi Chen

Proceedings Volume 9609, Infrared Sensors, Devices, and Applications V; 960912 (2015) https://doi.org/10.1117/12.2187751
Event: SPIE Optical Engineering + Applications, 2015, San Diego, California, United States

Abstract

Selective laser melting (SLM) is an additive manufacturing (AM) technology that uses a high-power laser beam to melt metal powder in chamber of inert gas. The process starts by slicing the 3D CAD data as a digital information source into layers to create a 2D image of each layer. Melting pool was formed by using laser irradiation on metal powders which then solidified to consolidated structure. In a selective laser melting process, the variation of melt pool affects the yield of a printed three-dimensional product. For three dimensional parts, the border conditions of the conductive heat transport have a very large influence on the melt pool dimensions. Therefore, melting pool is an important behavior that affects the final quality of the 3D object. To meet the temperature and geometry of the melting pool for monitoring in additive manufacturing technology. In this paper, we proposed the temperature sensing system which is composed of infrared photodiode, high speed camera, band-pass filter, dichroic beam splitter and focus lens. Since the infrared photodiode and high speed camera look at the process through the 2D galvanometer scanner and f-theta lens, the temperature sensing system can be used to observe the melting pool at any time, regardless of the movement of the laser spot. In order to obtain a wide temperature detecting range, 500 °C to 2500 °C, the radiation from the melting pool to be measured is filtered into a plurality of radiation portions, and since the intensity ratio distribution of the radiation portions is calculated by using black-body radiation. The experimental result shows that the system is suitable for melting pool to measure temperature.

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Chia-Hung Cho, Yi-Chen Hsieh, and Hsin-Yi Chen "Welding pool measurement using thermal array sensor", Proc. SPIE 9609, Infrared Sensors, Devices, and Applications V, 960912 (28 August 2015); https://doi.org/10.1117/12.2187751

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