Realtime Measurement of Temperature Field during Direct Laser Deposition Shaping

Abstract:

Direct laser deposition shaping is a state-of-the-art rapid prototyping technology. It can directly fabricate metal parts layer-by-layer without any die, mold, fixture and intermediate, just driven by the laminated CAD model. Accordingly, how to improve the quality of as-formed parts becomes an urgent issue in this research field. It is well known that as for the hot working, the heat history can generate enormous influence on the microstructure and mechanical properties of the parts. Due to the large quantity of heat introduced by laser fabrication process, it is necessary to build a temperature measuring platform to realtime monitor and control the temperature field in the laser fabrication process. As a result, such platform was created to communicate with computer by the temperature data collecting module and interface standard converting module, and achieved the temperature acquisition in the serial communication process through the Microsoft programming software. The experimental result proves the validity of the platform, which can provide effective boundary condition and experimental verification for the numerical simulation. In addition, the desirable temperature distribution can be obtained through the realtime process monitoring and effective parameter adjusting.

• Periodical: Advanced Materials Research (Volumes 143-144)
• Pages: 521-526
• DOI: https://doi.org/10.4028/www.scientific.net/AMR.143-144.521
• Online since: October 2010
• Authors: Kai Zhang, Xiao Feng Shang, Wei Jun Liu
• Keywords: Data Acquisition (DAQ), Direct Laser Deposition Shaping, Realtime Measurement, Serial Communication, Temperature Field

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