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Suppression of denudation zone using laser profile control in vacuum selective laser melting

Published:2023-02 Issue:1 Volume:35 Page:012004
ISSN:1042-346X
Container-title:Journal of Laser Applications
language:en
Short-container-title:Journal of Laser Applications

Author:

Ihama Masahiro¹,Sato Yuji²,Mizuguchi Yuta¹,Yoshida Norio²,Srisawadi Sasitorn³^ORCID,Tanprayoon Dhritti³,Suga Tetsuo²^ORCID,Tsukamoto Masahiro²

Affiliation:

1. Graduate School of Engineering, Osaka University, 2-1 Yamadaoka, Suita, Osaka 565-0871, Japan

2. Joining and Welding Research Institute, Osaka University, 11-1 Mihogaoka, Ibaraki, Osaka 567-0047, Japan

3. National Metal and Materials Technology Center, 114 Thailand Science Park, Paholyothin Road, Klong 1, Klong Luang, Pathumthani 12120, Thailand

Abstract

A vacuum selective laser melting method with a beam profile control was developed to fabricate the high quality 3D object. To investigate the quality of 3D fabrication, the denudation zone (DZ) as a quality indicator was evaluated to make a single bead. The main challenge is to clarify the correlation between the DZ and beam profiles. The beam profiles, such as a Gaussian mode, a doughnut mode, and a flat-top mode, were formed in several modes, by a dioptric system with a beam shaper. A stainless steel 316L (SS316L) powder was irradiated in arbitrary pressure to form a single bead, and then the DZ was measured. As a result, it was found that the flat-top mode recorded the minimum value of the DZ under atmospheric pressure. Thus, the dynamics of the metal vapor while the laser irradiation were observed by the Schlieren imaging technique under atmospheric pressure. The average velocity of metal vapor with flat-top mode was the slowest, i.e., 0.199 m/s. It was found that the DZ becomes small depending on the dynamics of metal vapor. The ambient pressure was reduced to 300 Pa in order to reduce the gas movement, and the DZ with flat-top mode was improved to record a minimum value of 0.048 mm, 1/3 of the DZ at atmospheric pressure.

Publisher

Laser Institute of America

Subject

Instrumentation,Biomedical Engineering,Atomic and Molecular Physics, and Optics,Electronic, Optical and Magnetic Materials

Link

https://lia.scitation.org/doi/pdf/10.2351/7.0000749

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