Title: Additive Manufacturing Process Simulation of Laser Powder Bed Fusion and Benchmarks

Authors: Mina S. Ghabbour, Xueyong Qu, Jacob I. Rome

DOI: 10.33599/nasampe/s.24.0248

Abstract: As the aerospace industry continues to adopt additively manufactured (AM) parts for flight hardware, process simulation becomes more attractive to improve the manufacturing process by understanding how process parameters affect part quality and performance. Process simulation can also be used to predict and prevent build failures before the printing process. The powder bed fusion process of Ti-6Al-4V material is modeled using commercial finite element software to simulate the selective laser melting process. The thermal history is obtained from transient heat transfer analysis. Both the inherent strain approach and a sequential thermal-mechanical approach are employed to predict residual stress and part distortion. A NAFEMS benchmark problem is presented as a numerical example. It is a thin wall structure with geometry features that can lead to part defects due to thermal distortion. It is shown that both analysis approaches are able to capture the thin-member bridging behavior, stepping behavior, and general distortion contour plot as those published by NAFEMS.

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Conference: SAMPE 2024

Publication Date: 2024/05/20

SKU: TP24-0000000248

Pages: 10

Price: $20.00