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In this contribution, we validate a physical model based on a transient temperature equation (including latent heat), w.r.t. the experimental set AMB2018-02 provided within the additive manufacturing benchmark series, established at the National Institute of Standards and Technology, USA. We aim at predicting the following quantities of interest, width, depth, and length of the melt pool by numerical simulation, and report also on the obtainable numerical results of the cooling rate. We first assume the laser to possess a double-ellipsoidal shape and demonstrate that a well-calibrated, purely thermal model based on isotropic thermal conductivity is able to predict all the quantities of interest, up to a deviation of maximum 7.3% from the experimentally measured values. However, it is interesting to observe that if we directly introduce, whenever available, the measured laser profile in the model (instead of the double-ellipsoidal shape), the investigated model returns a deviation of 19.3% from the experimental values. This motivates a model update by introducing anisotropic conductivity, which is intended to be a simplistic model for heat material convection inside the melt pool. Such an anisotropic model enables the prediction of all quantities of interest mentioned above with a maximum deviation from the experimental values of 6.5%. We note that, although more predictive, the anisotropic model induces only a marginal increase in computational complexity.
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The first author received financial support from the German Research Foundation (DFG) under grant RA 624/27-2. This work was partially supported by Regione Lombardia through the project ”TPro.SL - Tech Profiles for Smart Living” (No. 379384) within the Smart Living program, and through the project ”MADE4LO - Metal ADditivE for LOmbardy” (No. 240963) within the POR FESR 2014-2020 program. Massimo Carraturo and Alessandro Reali have been partially supported by Fondazione Cariplo - Regione Lombardia through the project “Verso nuovi strumenti di simulazione super veloci ed accurati basati sull’analisi isogeometrica”, within the program RST - rafforzamento.
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Kollmannsberger, S., Carraturo, M., Reali, A. et al. Accurate Prediction of Melt Pool Shapes in Laser Powder Bed Fusion by the Non-Linear Temperature Equation Including Phase Changes. Integr Mater Manuf Innov 8, 167–177 (2019). https://doi.org/10.1007/s40192-019-00132-9
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