Empa Eidgenossische Materialprufungs-und Forschungsanstalt

Empa EidgenÖssische MaterialprofÜngs-Und Forschungsanstalt

Bobst Mex Sa

Sébastien Vaucher

Kilian Wasmer

Sergey Shevchik

Farzad Vakili Farahani

Georgios Violakis

Gilles Pillonel

Sébastien Equis

Use of a sensor read out system with at least one fiber optical sensor, which is connected via at least one signal line to a processing unit as part of an additive manufacturing setup, for in situ and real time quality control of a running additive manufacturing process. Acoustic emission is measured via the at least one fiber optical sensor in form of fibers with Bragg grating, fibre interferometer or Fabry-Perot structure, followed by a signal transfer and an analysis of the measured signals in the processing unit, estimation of the sintering or melting process quality due to correlation between sintering or melting quality and measured acoustic emission signals and subsequent adaption of ion and electron beams, microwave or laser sintering or melting parameters of a ion and electron beams, microwave or laser electronics of the additive manufacturing setup in real times via a feedback loop as a result of the measured acoustic emission signals after interpretation with an algorithmic framework in the processing unit.

In situ and real time quality control in additive manufacturing process

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Thun, Switzerland

Sébastien Vaucher