Infrared Thermography for Laser-Based Powder Bed Fusion Additive Manufacturing Processes

Published

July 26, 2013

Author(s)

Shawn P. Moylan, Eric P. Whitenton, Brandon M. Lane, John A. Slotwinski

Abstract

Additive manufacturing (AM) has the potential to revolutionize discrete part manufacturing, but improvements in processing of metallic materials are necessary before AM will see widespread adoption. A better understanding of AM processes, resulting from physics-based modeling as well as direct process metrology, will form the basis for these improvements. Infrared (IR) thermography of AM processes can provide direct process metrology as well as data necessary for the verification of physics-based models. We review selected works examining how IR thermography was implemented and used in various powder-bed AM process. This previous work, as well as significant experience at the National Institute of Standards and Technology in temperature measurement and IR thermography for machining processes, shapes our own research into AM process metrology with IR thermography. We discuss our experimental design as well as plans for future IR measurements of a laser-based powder bed fusion AM process.

Proceedings Title

Proceedings of the 40th Annual Review of Progress in Quantitative Nondestructive Evaluation

Conference Dates

July 22-26, 2013

Conference Location

Baltimore, MD

Conference Title

The 40th Annual Review of Progress in Quantitative Nondestructive Evaluation

Pub Type

Conferences

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Keywords

Additive Manufacturing, Powder Bed Fusion, Infrared Thermography, Thermal Imaging, Hyperspectral Camera

Citation

Moylan, S. , Whitenton, E. , Lane, B. and Slotwinski, J. (2013), Infrared Thermography for Laser-Based Powder Bed Fusion Additive Manufacturing Processes, Proceedings of the 40th Annual Review of Progress in Quantitative Nondestructive Evaluation, Baltimore, MD, [online], https://tsapps.nist.gov/publication/get_pdf.cfm?pub_id=914588 (Accessed July 19, 2025)