Abstract
During the past ten years Additive Manufacturing
(AM) technologies have been constantly
developing in terms of materials and processes.
This allows the use of the AM not only during the
preproduction but also for the manufacturing of
final components for commercial use [1], [2].
However one of the still existing challenges for
AM concerns the quality of the final components.
Every manufacturing process has a strict set of
requirements that every component has to meet
in order to meet production tolerances, yet AM
still shows a lack of industrial standards [3]. The
advantage of AM to be able to manufacture
components of very complex geometries with
intricate internal features becomes in this case a
drawback. In fact, the control of the quality and
the verification of tolerances become difficult
task to accomplish with traditional measuring
equipment. Some features can be difficult to
reach and there are no standards to compare
them with.
To overcome this problem, a method to evaluate
the performance of AM machine tools based on
the printing of an artefact and the subsequent
measuring of its features is proposed and
shown. This paper shows a validation of the
method by means of a laser interferometer.
Furthermore, different AM machines are tested
using the printed artefact.
| Original language | English |
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| Title of host publication | Proceedings of the 29th Annual Meeting of the American Society for Precision Engineering |
| Number of pages | 5 |
| Publication date | 2014 |
| Publication status | Published - 2014 |
| Event | 29th Annual Meeting of the American Society for Precision Engineering - The Westin Boston Waterfront, Boston, United States Duration: 9 Nov 2014 → 14 Nov 2014 |
Conference
| Conference | 29th Annual Meeting of the American Society for Precision Engineering |
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| Location | The Westin Boston Waterfront |
| Country/Territory | United States |
| City | Boston |
| Period | 09/11/2014 → 14/11/2014 |