Title
Correlation approach for quality assurance of additive manufactured parts based on optical metrology
Campus Units
Industrial and Manufacturing Systems Engineering, Mechanical Engineering
Document Type
Article
Publication Version
Accepted Manuscript
Publication Date
5-2020
Journal or Book Title
Journal of Manufacturing Processes
Volume
53
First Page
310
Last Page
317
Research Focus Area(s)
Advanced Manufacturing Research
DOI
10.1016/j.jmapro.2020.02.037
Abstract
Surface topography and surface finish are two significant factors for evaluating the quality of products in additive manufacturing (AM). AM parts are fabricated layer by layer, which is quite different from traditional formative or subtractive methods. Despite rapid progress in additive manufacturing and associated optical metrology for quality control and in-situ monitoring, limited research has been conducted to investigate the reliability of 3D surface measurement data. The surface topologies scanned by multiple optical systems demonstrated significant differences due to varying sampling mechanisms, resolutions, system noises, etc. The 3D datasets should be trustworthy in order to extract parameters for quality assurance or feedback control from 3D surface measurements. In this paper, we set up new standards to evaluate the reliability of 3D surface measurement data and analyze the variation in the topographical profile. In this study, two non-contact optical methods based on Focus Variation Microscopy (FVM) and Structured Light System (SLS) were adopted to measure the surface topography of the target components. The two optical metrology systems generated two entirely different point cloud datasets. Statistical methods were applied to test the difference between the data obtained from the two systems. By using data analytics approach for comparison, it was found that the surface roughness estimated from the point cloud data sets of FVM and SLS has no significant difference, though the point cloud data sets were completely different. This paper provides standard validation approach to evaluate the plausibility of metrology data from in-situ real-time surface analysis for process planning of AM.
Creative Commons License
This work is licensed under a Creative Commons Attribution-NonCommercial-No Derivative Works 4.0 International License.
Copyright Owner
The Society of Manufacturing Engineers
Copyright Date
2020
Language
en
File Format
application/pdf
Recommended Citation
Zhang, Xiao; Zheng, Yi; Suresh, Vignesh; Wang, Shaodong; Li, Qing; Li, Beiwen; and Qin, Hantang, "Correlation approach for quality assurance of additive manufactured parts based on optical metrology" (2020). Industrial and Manufacturing Systems Engineering Publications. 233.
https://lib.dr.iastate.edu/imse_pubs/233
Comments
This is a manuscript of an article published as Zhang, Xiao, Yi Zheng, Vignesh Suresh, Shaodong Wang, Qing Li, Beiwen Li, and Hantang Qin. "Correlation approach for quality assurance of additive manufactured parts based on optical metrology." Journal of Manufacturing Processes 53 (2020): 310-317. DOI: 10.1016/j.jmapro.2020.02.037. Posted with permission.