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Lecture 3 - Laser-Material Interactions Flashcards

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What is the laser energy determined by?

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laser power, beam size
wavelength, frequency

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What are the four types of laser?

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CO2
Nd:YAG
Yb-fiber
Excimer

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What laser is most often used for commercial machine?

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Nd:YAG

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What laser is the cheapest?

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CO2

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What laser is most often used for PBF techniques?

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Yb-fiber

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What is the Excimer laser used for?

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Polymers (UV cure)

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How does a long pulse laser (microseconds) compare to short pulse laser (femtoseconds)?

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The shorter the pulse, the less melt zone, ejected material, and damaged surface

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What is a short pulse laser used for?

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machining and cutting

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9
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What is rb and r?

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rb is the laser beam radius, typically smaller than the melt zone radius (r)

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What profile is assumed for the laser?

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Gaussian beam profile

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What is the 1/e^2 width?

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the width of the laser beam at 1/e^2 * maximum value

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What is the radius of the beam W(z)?

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W(z) = FWHM(z)/sqrt(2*ln2) ~ 1.7FWHM(z)/2

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13
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What is FWHM?

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full width at half maximum

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14
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What is the equation for absorbance, reflectance, and transmittance?

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A + R + T = 1

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Why can particles reflect multiple times?

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powder materials will reflect with each other in the powder bed

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What is Fresnel’s Equation?

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A = 1 - R = 1 - ((n-1)^2 + k^2)/((n+1)^2 + k^2)

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What is n?

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refractive index (real part) measured as n = c/v

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18
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What is k?

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refractive index (imaginary part) or extinction/attenuation coefficient

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19
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What is the experimental equation for absorptivity?

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A = (Energy absorbed)/(total input energy)

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What are the three experimental methods to determine A?

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wide-range UV-vis-IR spectrometer
direct calorimetry method
integrating sphere method

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21
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What is material has good absorptivity?

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316L (stainless steel)

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22
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What material does not absorb well?

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W (tungsten)

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What factors affect absorptivity?

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type
powder size and distribution
powder layer thickness
surface conditions of powder and roundness
green packing density of powder bed
laser power and speed
pulsed vs continuous laser

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What is the problem with copper?

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High thermal transmittivity, which reduces absorptivity

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What is the usual green packing density?
65%
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Is absorptivity dependence on laser power linear or nonlinear?
nonlinear
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What is keyhole mode?
D>W/2, depth of melting is greater than half the width
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What is conduction mode?
D
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What is melt pool depth?
D, from surface to end
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What is melt pool width?
W, width of melt pool
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What is the Eagar model?
prediction of the melt pool shape based on welding models
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What is the correlation between weld width and power?
more power = more width
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What does the Rosenthal equation do?
calculate temperature within a build
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What does the Rosenthal equation assume?
the heat capacitance remains constant (actually is a function of the temperature)
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What is the hatch spacing?
distance between lines
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How much hatch spacing is preferred?
50% overlapping with width
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What is spatter?
formation of metal droplets that leave the melt pool from flow conditions in the capillary and melt pool
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How do you eliminate laser turn-around pore formation?
Reduce the power towards the edge of a part
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How are laser turn-around pores formed?
laser is exposed on part for too long of a time towards the edge
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What is laser expulsion?
particles are launched off the surface by a laser
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What is self-replication?
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What is shadowing effect?
scattering of particles absorb and scatter incoming laser beam, which results in less power on the particles below
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What is the denudation zone?
area without powder
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What happens when your laser speed is too fast?
pores are trapped due to depression collapse
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What is laser tracing?
simulation done for shadowing effect by professor's colleagues
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When is the shadowing effect most significant?
When particles melt together to block the laser at a bigger scale
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What are the critical conditions for keyhole instability?
scan speed and power
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What happens if the power and scan speed do not align?
keyhole porosity or stable melting
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What can happen to a pore once formed?
shrinking, splitting, movement, rebound
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How is layer thickness defined?
The overlapping depth based on the hatch spacing
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What are the laser scan strategies?
all x, all y, x-y alternate, chequerboard/island (offset), chequerboard/island no offset
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What is contour vs raster fill?
countour is outside, raster fill is inside
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What mode is in between conduction mode and keyhole mode?
transition
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What is vapor depression?
vapor forming within the melt pool
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What is melt pool instability?
weird shaped melt pools (pinched off vapor depression)
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What characteristic materials can see laser cross-sections with x-rays?
light-z materials
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What leads to a drastic increase of absorptivity for each material?
a critical power number
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What is the integrating sphere method?
measures reflected light to calculate absorbed light
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What is the direct calorimetry method?
measures the temperature change of a material during laser exposure to calculate absorbed energy
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What are two characteristics of the direct calorimetry method?
versatile (different laser powers and scanning speeds) commonly used in L-BPF process
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What is the wide-range UV-vis-IR spectrometer method?
uses variety of lasers (green, diode, Nd:YAG) to measure absorptivity
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What are two characteristics of the wide-range UV-vis-IR spectrometer method?
inconvenient for measuring absorptivity at elevated temperatures or different laser powers
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What is the range of the wide-range UV-vis-IR spectrometer method?
200-1700 nm
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What is the range of the green laser?
520-532 nm
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What is the range of the diode laser?
810-1064 nm
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What is the range of the Nd:YAG laser?
1064-1070 nm
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What is Drude's theory?
a (complicated) method to evaluate refractive indexes (real and imaginary) for Fresnel Equation

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