Thermo-structural Finite Element Analysis of Direct Laser Metal Deposited Thin-Walled Structures

Zekovic, Srdja; Dwivedi, R.; Kovacevic, Radovan

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“…Similarly, a numerical model was developed for simulating the heat transfer and residual stress using the Comsol multiphysics environment to further understand the complex thermo-mechanical behaviour in the LS process [46]. The distortion due to undesirable residual stress in the LS process has most likely arisen from the presence of large thermal gradients [47][48][49][50]. Alternatively, a semi-analytical thermal model was presented to discretise the moving laser spots on a printed object to predict the temperature gradients in the selective laser melting (SLM) process and accompanying deformation [51].…”

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A Survey on Process Modelling, Innovation, Design, and Material Characterisation in Additive Manufacturing

Hassani

Emami

Tjahjowidodo

et al. 2023

Digital Manufacturing Technology

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The unique design freedom offered by additive manufacturing (AM) technologies enables engineers to develop more innovative products with relatively lower costs within a shorter period of processing time in comparison with conventional manufacturing methods. On the other hand, the unique capabilities of AM have created a platform for researchers to combine several engineering methods with the new manufacturing technique to grow industrial applications as well as resolve the existing issues with AM processes. Understanding the research values that AM offers academic environments, this paper performs a systematic survey on AM-related research topics in the fields of mechanical engineering and materials science that have attracted much attention from research teams over the last few years. These topics, namely process modelling in AM, innovative research in AM, generative design by AM, material characterisation in AM processes, and finally, design for additive manufacturing (DfAM), are notably investigated through this study.

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Section: Process Modelling To Predict Residual Stressmentioning

confidence: 99%

A Survey on Process Modelling, Innovation, Design, and Material Characterisation in Additive Manufacturing

Hassani

Emami

Tjahjowidodo

et al. 2023

Digital Manufacturing Technology

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Simulation of Metal Additive Manufacturing

Peña¹,

Choo²

2021

Proceedings of the 8th International Conference on Fluid Flow, Heat and Mass Transfer (FFHMT'21)

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Metal additive manufacturing (MAM) has gained interest due to its capability to produce metallic components with complex geometry by depositing consecutives layers of material that will shape said geometry through Direct Energy Deposition (DED) [1][2][3]. DED processes employ a high energy source, commonly a laser, to melt and laid metals [4]. Different DED technologies are commercially available such as Laser cladding (LC), Direct metal deposition (DMD), Laser engineer net shaping (LENS), Laser powder fusion (LPF), to name a few; these have been used to process various titanium, steel, nickel and aluminium alloys, among others [5]. It has been identified that DED processes are mainly influenced by the heat source power, scanning speed, feeding rate, and scanning strategy, and the exploration of these parameters with numerical simulation reduces experimental efforts [5,6]. Numerical modeling by using finite element method (FEM) software has been used to explore the effect of the process parameters in the temperature distribution, either heating, cooling or both, as well as residual stresses, residual deformation and grain formation; commercial and selfdeveloped code was reported in literature with good agreement to reference data [2,[6][7][8][9][10][11][12]. FEM cases are also employed to validate new methods such as the modified inherent strain method and the invasion model in MAM [1,13], as well as to evaluate diverse heat source models applicable to laser heating [14]. Based on this, a thermal-transient model in ANSYS® is proposed to reproduce a reference case [15]. The model considers a single-straight wall (12.6 x 38.1 mm x 3.0 mm) on a rectangular substrate (6.35 mm x 76.2 mm x 38.1 mm). The geometry is meshed with 20-nodes hexahedral elements, limited to a minimum element size of 0.75mm but forced to 62 divisions for the wall height. Sets of elements in each layer were created independently to allow for element birth/death commands and each set would be deposited as the heat source scans the geometry. A moving heating source is defined and travels at 8.47 mm/s, heating the top surface of the deposited elements; the parameters of the heat source were fitted to a laser with power of 425 W, 1.5 mm beam radius and process efficiency of 0.45. The initial temperature of the wall and substrate geometries and the surrounding temperature are defined as 30.5°C. Free convection boundary condition is assumed on every surface of the model and set to 10 W/mm 2 /°C. Wall and substrate are both assumed as Ti-6Al-4V with temperature dependent material properties [1][2][3]15]. The proposed model agrees qualitatively with the reference case for the temperature profile from the first deposited layer down to the bottom of the substrate. Nonetheless, there are some significant differences quantitatively, while temperature at the surface and almost 0.1 mm below are only 5% different that the reference case and at the substrate bottom around 10%, the temperature in the midsection decreases rapidly and around 2.4 mm below the firs...

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Numerical Modeling of Thermal and Mechanical Behaviors in the Selective Laser Sintering of Metals

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2018

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Thermo-structural Finite Element Analysis of Direct Laser Metal Deposited Thin-Walled Structures

Cited by 5 publications

References 5 publications

A Survey on Process Modelling, Innovation, Design, and Material Characterisation in Additive Manufacturing

A Survey on Process Modelling, Innovation, Design, and Material Characterisation in Additive Manufacturing

Simulation of Metal Additive Manufacturing

Numerical Modeling of Thermal and Mechanical Behaviors in the Selective Laser Sintering of Metals

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