3D Printing Optical Engine for Controlling Material Microstructure

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• 作者：Wei-Chin Huang ; ^{Horus-Huang@itri.org.tw" class="auth_mail" title="E-mail the corresponding author} ; Kuang-Po Chang ; Ping-Han Wu ; Chih-Hsien Wu ; Ching-Chih Lin ; Chuan-Sheng Chuang ; De-Yau Lin ; Sung-Ho Liu ; Ji-Bin Horng ; Fang-Hei Tsau
• 关键词：Selective laser melting ; additive manufacturing ; material microstructure
• 刊名：Physics Procedia
• 出版年：2016
• 出版时间：2016
• 年：2016
• 卷：83
• 期：Complete
• 页码：847-853
• 全文大小：1378 K

文摘

Controlling the cooling rate of alloy during melting and resolidification is the most commonly used method for varying the material microstructure and consequently the resuling property. However, the cooling rate of a selective laser melting (SLM) production is restricted by a preset optimal parameter of a good dense product. The head room for locally manipulating material property in a process is marginal. In this study, we invent an Optical Engine for locally controlling material microstructure in a SLM process. It develops an invovative method to control and adjust thermal history of the solidification process to gain desired material microstucture and consequently drastically improving the quality. Process parameters selected locally for specific materials requirement according to designed characteristics by using thermal dynamic principles of solidification process. It utilize a technique of complex laser beam shape of adaptive irradiation profile to permit local control of material characteristics as desired. This technology could be useful for industrial application of medical implant, aerospace and automobile industries.