FEATURE-BASED METHOD TO FORMALISE ADDITIVE MANUFACTURING RELATED DATA AT THE MESOSCALE BASED ON A MEREOTOPOLOGICAL DESCRIPTION

AbstractResearch on additive manufacturing has highlighted methods and guidelines to optimise the design process and improving finished product quality. There is still room for improvement in making AM as reliable as more traditional processes when considering industrial use. In terms of manufacturing, managing print parameters properly can improve reproducibility and repeatability of a part, in addition to its fidelity to the basic geometric model. However, a topological optimised geometry requires more than good parameterisation. Efforts are therefore being made to formalise knowledge so that it is explicit and accessible to designers. This paper proposes an approach based on the spatio-temporal evolution of a geometry during printing to quantify data at the meso scale. Previous studies have been conducted on the description of features in time, space and space-time, and on the influence of their arrangement within a part. Building on this work, a parameterised test specimen was designed to measure the quantitative impact of these arrangements on the final product. The method is then presented and illustrated through a case study to help the designer with quantitative predictive values of geometric parameters

Evaluation des types d’informations et des supports de transmission pour favoriser l’assimilation de connaissances liées à la fabrication additive

La transmission de connaissances est un facteur clé pour le développement de la Fabrication Additive (FA) dans l'industrie. Pour des concepteurs n'étant pas spécialisés dans ce domaine, beaucoup de cycles de prototypage peuvent être nécessaires avant l'obtention d'un résultat satisfaisant le cahier des charges. Concevoir pour la FA implique la prise en compte des restrictions et règles spécifiques au procédé. La production ainsi que le temps de conception doivent-être optimisés, en utilisant par exemple un système automatisé d’analyse de fabricabilité

High temperature durability of a bond-coatless plasma-sprayed thermal barrier coating system with laser textured Ni-based single crystal substrate

Thermal barrier coating systems are usually build-up with bond coats to ensure a good adhesion of the ceramic top coat and to protect the substrate against oxidation and corrosion. Such system is often subjected to complex thermo-mechanical loading. Because of the very different damage processes encountered during service operations, a simplified system was investigated by removing the bond-coat. Recently adhesion bond strength was enhanced using laser surface texturing of the substrate in thermal spraying processes. Atmospheric plasma spray yttria-stabilized-zirconia thermal barrier coating system was deposited on the Ni-based AM1 single crystalline superalloy without bond coat. Adhesion bond strength was already increased compared to conventional processing method. Top coat durability was evaluated at high temperature and damage mechanisms were studied. Isothermal and cyclic oxidation tests showed durability of 1000 h and 400 cycles at 1100 °C. The oxidation mechanisms at the substrate/top coat interface changed due to fast solidification during the laser texturing process. Then, TBC system was studied under high temperature mechanical solicitation in tension creep. The textured interfaces were not damaged after 1% creep strain while top-coat/substrate interfacial cracking was observed for grit-blasted specimens. Moreover, no preferential crack development in the substrate was observed. Patterns provided an enhanced adhesion by changing the stress distribution near the interface

Absorptivity measurement of solid and powder bed under IR laser beam

The effective absorptivity of IR laser light for different powder beds were studied. The reflectivity of aluminum, titanium, stainless steel and copper alloys was measured using an appropriate Ulbricht sphere. Laser irradiation was reliably detected by a photodiode. Reflectivity was carefully measured as a function of illuminated area and powder bed density. Several powder size distributions and powder thicknesses were chosen to evaluate the impact on the laser absorption. Two spot diameters were tested to evaluate the variation of the reflectivity. The absorptivity of the powder bed was significantly higher than the absorptivity of a uniform surface for similar material due to multiple scattering. In addition, the substrate is responsible for a non-negligible variation in the powder bed absorption. The inhomogeneity of the powder bed strongly modified the laser absorption for a small spot size. The absorption fluctuated during the transition from the powder state to the molten pool state

Laser surface patterning to enhance adhesion of plasma sprayed coatings

In thermal spraying, adhesive bond strength is a feature of surface properties. An adapted surface is studied with prior-surface treatments to enhance interface energy. This study deals with Ni–Al coatings on 2017 aluminum alloy substrate produced by atmospheric plasma spraying. The adherence was evaluated with several controlled surface topographies obtained by grit-blasting and laser surface texturing technique. Adherence has been tested with two different techniques: pull-off test and LASer Adhesion Test. They induce different stresses at the interface. The results showed that the adhesive strength is mostly controlled by a contact adhesion area. A large contact area increases the energy release rate at the interface during coating failures. The bond strength tendency for the two adherence tests is similar: apparent adherence is tripled thanks to laser surface patterning. Fracture propagation is stopped nearby laser-induced holes due to the complex shape and has to deviate inside the coating to maintain crack propagation (inter-splat cracks). The energy at the interfaces being stored locally due to pattern: pattern morphology, pattern localization and powder feed rate are important factors that control the adhesion strength of the thermally sprayed coatings

Laser adhesion test for thermal sprayed coatings on textured surface by laser

The laser shock adhesion test (LASAT) is a technique allowing the generation of high tensile stresses in materials. The LASAT consists in focusing a pulsed laser beam on a water-confined target. The laser pulse crosses the water transparent layer and is absorbed by the target. High energetic plasma is created at the surface of the sample. As a response to the expansion of the plasma, a shock wave is generated and propagates through the sample. This shock wave leads to the generation of high tensile stresses in the sample. These stresses allow the interface solicitation in order to evaluate the dynamic adhesive bond strength of coated systems. In order to determine interface strengths, this technique has already proven its feasibility. In this paper, the adhesion strength of coated system was evaluated using LASAT for two surface pretreatments of substrates obtained by grit-blasting and laser surface texturing techniques. The generation of the high-intensity shock wave by laser plasma in the water-confinement regime has been performed at 7.1 ns at 532 nm with the new Nd:YAG laser facility HEPHAISTOS. This paper shows that surface treatments have a great influence on the adherence results of the coated systems obtained with laser adhesion test. However, the LASAT is efficient on thin coating. In that sense, thicker industrial coatings are not adapted for the conventional LASAT anymore. Therefore, a new technique was designed to improve and extend the conventional technique. This technique consists of varying the delay Δt between two incident pulses to adjust the location of the maximum tensile stresses near the interface. Some preliminary results on the improved configuration are presented in this paper and the problematic of the laser-matter interaction with two time-delayed laser pulses which has arisen is discussed

Laser Patterning Pretreatment before Thermal Spraying: A Technique to Adapt and Control the Surface Topography to Thermomechanical Loading and Materials

Coating characteristics are highly dependent on substrate preparation and spray parameters. Hence, the surface must be adapted mechanically and physicochemically to favor coating–substrate adhesion. Conventional surface preparation methods such as grit blasting are limited by surface embrittlement and produce large plastic deformations throughout the surface, resulting in compressive stress and potential cracks. Among all such methods, laser patterning is suitable to prepare the surface of sensitive materials. No embedded grit particles can be observed, and high-quality coatings are obtained. Finally, laser surface patterning adapts the impacted surface, creating large anchoring area. Optimized surface topographies can then be elaborated according to the material as well as the application. The objective of this study is to compare the adhesive bond strength between two surface preparation methods, namely grit blasting and laser surface patterning, for two material couples used in aerospace applications: 2017 aluminum alloy and AISI 304L stainless steel coated with NiAl and YSZ, respectively. Laser patterning significantly increases adherence values for similar contact area due to mixed-mode (cohesive and adhesive) failure. The coating is locked in the pattern

Etude des effets des préparations de surface avant projection thermique : application barrière thermique

Coating adhesion is requiered to rpomote specific surface properties by thermal spraying. Conventional prior-surface treatments have been developed to create anchoring zones but the adhesion strenght and their applications are limited. Laser surface texturing increases and adapts the adhesion surface. Therefore, two interface failure modes have been related to texture morphologies for tensile and shear stresses. The energy released rate at the interface increases up to coating toughness when the crack path is sharp. Mixed-mode failures have been observed with adhesive and cohesive cracks around and above pattern respectively. So, the adhesion stengyh is function of the contact aera precisely linked to pattern distribution and morphology. Thermal barrier coating system without bond coat life-span has been evaluated for thermomechanical stresses (YSZ coating on single crystal based Nickel). The bond coat has been remplaced by an adapted substrate surface topography. According ti the laser parameters (energy per pulse, pulse numbers) pattern morphology can be created. Therefore, textured surface filling by melted particles has been studies to minimize interface defaults and created mixed-mode failures for during plasma spray coatings. The drilling mechanisms have been evaluated by numerical modeling and experimental analysis. The pattern dimensions and heat affected zones has been identified. The laser treatment changes the microstructure locally.Oxydation tests have been performed to study the surface pre-tratments effects on oxide nature and mass gain rate. The damaging mechanisms ave been studied under isotherm and cyclic high temperature tests and also under creeping and thermo-mechanical fatigue tests. Grit-blasting change the natural oxides, limits life-span and bucking failure mode have been obeserved. Natural oxides have been analyzed for the textured substraes also but anchoring mechanism enables large life-span under high temperature tests. Mechanical applied stresses (constant and cyclic) validate the beneficial effects of patterned surfaces. The interface is stronger than the coating toughness and the patterns do not create early cracks under thermo-mechanical solicitations.L'adhésion des revêtements est l'objectif premier de tout système afin de pouvoir apporter les propriétés de surface voulues par projection thermique. De façon conventionnelle, des traitements de sablage sont régulièrement employés afin de promouvoir des phénomènes d'ancrage mécanique entre les deux matériaux mis en contact.Néanmoins, selon la nature même des matériaux, un certain nombre de limitations peuvent être observées aussi bien d'un point de vue usage que tenue. Une fragilisation des surfaces peut en effet être remarquée dès lors qu'ils'agit du traitement de matériaux ductiles. Pour palier certaines de ces contraintes, des traitements palliatifs sont alors recherchés parmi lesquels les traitements laser apparaissent particulièrement bénéfiques dont la texturation laser. Les revêtements barrière thermique sont l'application visée de cette étude avec comme objectif une optimisation de leur durabilité à chaud (oxydation, fluage). Une sous-couche d'accroche est habituellement déposée mais les modes d'endommagement recensés semblent se concentrer autour de cette dernière. L'objectif de c etravail a donc visé à remplacer la sous-couche par une topographie de surface spécifique du substrat générée partexturation laser et permettant un ancrage mécanique suffisant aux chargement mécaniques et thermiques subis par les aubes de turbines hautes températures.Lors de l'interaction laser-matière, une élévation en température de l'extrême surface jusqu'à la température defusion et de vaporisation du matériau peut être observée et permettre la formation de motifs. Les dimensions de tels motifs sont donc liées à l¿énergie par impulsion et au nombre d¿impulsions. Pour valider de tels effets, les mécanismes de perçage ont donc été étudiés grâce à une modélisation thermo hydraulique et une validation postmortem des échantillons. Les dimensions des motifs alors contrôlées, le remplissage des surfaces texturées par des particules fondues projetées par le procédé APS a été étudié afin de minimiser le nombre de défauts proche de l'interface. Deux modes de rupture ont pu être identifiés en fonction de la morphologie de surface pour descontraintes de traction et de cisaillement. Les fissures se propagent à l'interface jusqu'à avoir des changements dedirection. L'énergie de propagation de la fissure augmente donc jusqu'à atteindre une valeur limite correspondant àla ténacité du revêtement. Dans ce cas, la tenue n'est pas fonction de la surface totale en contact mais de larépartition spatiale et l'ouverture des motifs, la seule limite de la tenue du revêtement restant la cohésion du dépôt.D'un point de vue applicatif, le but de cette étude a été de caractériser les modes d'endommagements de systèmes barrière thermique sans sous-couche pour des conditions rencontrées en service. Les mécanismes d'endommagement dus à l'oxydation et à l'allongement viscoplastique à 1100C ont donc été isolés par des essais àdes flux thermiques isothermes et cyclés, de fluage et de fatigue thermomécanique. Le traitement laser modifiant localement la microstructure des surfaces, une modification des couches d'oxydes a tout d'abord pu être identifiée.En effet, contrairement aux traitements conventionnels où la croissance d'oxyde n'est pas constante (point limitant de la durée de vie du système), l'apparition de spinelles et d'une couche dense d'alumine protectrice en surface des matériaux texturés a pu être observée. L'ancrage mécanique ainsi créé a démontré alors une durée de vie nettement améliorée face à des conditions extrêmes

Effects on adhesion mechanisms of prior-surface treatments before thermal spraying : Thermal barrier coating

L'adhésion des revêtements est l'objectif premier de tout système afin de pouvoir apporter les propriétés de surface voulues par projection thermique. De façon conventionnelle, des traitements de sablage sont régulièrement employés afin de promouvoir des phénomènes d'ancrage mécanique entre les deux matériaux mis en contact.Néanmoins, selon la nature même des matériaux, un certain nombre de limitations peuvent être observées aussi bien d'un point de vue usage que tenue. Une fragilisation des surfaces peut en effet être remarquée dès lors qu'ils'agit du traitement de matériaux ductiles. Pour palier certaines de ces contraintes, des traitements palliatifs sont alors recherchés parmi lesquels les traitements laser apparaissent particulièrement bénéfiques dont la texturation laser. Les revêtements barrière thermique sont l'application visée de cette étude avec comme objectif une optimisation de leur durabilité à chaud (oxydation, fluage). Une sous-couche d'accroche est habituellement déposée mais les modes d'endommagement recensés semblent se concentrer autour de cette dernière. L'objectif de c etravail a donc visé à remplacer la sous-couche par une topographie de surface spécifique du substrat générée partexturation laser et permettant un ancrage mécanique suffisant aux chargement mécaniques et thermiques subis par les aubes de turbines hautes températures.Lors de l'interaction laser-matière, une élévation en température de l'extrême surface jusqu'à la température defusion et de vaporisation du matériau peut être observée et permettre la formation de motifs. Les dimensions de tels motifs sont donc liées à l¿énergie par impulsion et au nombre d¿impulsions. Pour valider de tels effets, les mécanismes de perçage ont donc été étudiés grâce à une modélisation thermo hydraulique et une validation postmortem des échantillons. Les dimensions des motifs alors contrôlées, le remplissage des surfaces texturées par des particules fondues projetées par le procédé APS a été étudié afin de minimiser le nombre de défauts proche de l'interface. Deux modes de rupture ont pu être identifiés en fonction de la morphologie de surface pour descontraintes de traction et de cisaillement. Les fissures se propagent à l'interface jusqu'à avoir des changements dedirection. L'énergie de propagation de la fissure augmente donc jusqu'à atteindre une valeur limite correspondant àla ténacité du revêtement. Dans ce cas, la tenue n'est pas fonction de la surface totale en contact mais de larépartition spatiale et l'ouverture des motifs, la seule limite de la tenue du revêtement restant la cohésion du dépôt.D'un point de vue applicatif, le but de cette étude a été de caractériser les modes d'endommagements de systèmes barrière thermique sans sous-couche pour des conditions rencontrées en service. Les mécanismes d'endommagement dus à l'oxydation et à l'allongement viscoplastique à 1100C ont donc été isolés par des essais àdes flux thermiques isothermes et cyclés, de fluage et de fatigue thermomécanique. Le traitement laser modifiant localement la microstructure des surfaces, une modification des couches d'oxydes a tout d'abord pu être identifiée.En effet, contrairement aux traitements conventionnels où la croissance d'oxyde n'est pas constante (point limitant de la durée de vie du système), l'apparition de spinelles et d'une couche dense d'alumine protectrice en surface des matériaux texturés a pu être observée. L'ancrage mécanique ainsi créé a démontré alors une durée de vie nettement améliorée face à des conditions extrêmes.Coating adhesion is requiered to rpomote specific surface properties by thermal spraying. Conventional prior-surface treatments have been developed to create anchoring zones but the adhesion strenght and their applications are limited. Laser surface texturing increases and adapts the adhesion surface. Therefore, two interface failure modes have been related to texture morphologies for tensile and shear stresses. The energy released rate at the interface increases up to coating toughness when the crack path is sharp. Mixed-mode failures have been observed with adhesive and cohesive cracks around and above pattern respectively. So, the adhesion stengyh is function of the contact aera precisely linked to pattern distribution and morphology. Thermal barrier coating system without bond coat life-span has been evaluated for thermomechanical stresses (YSZ coating on single crystal based Nickel). The bond coat has been remplaced by an adapted substrate surface topography. According ti the laser parameters (energy per pulse, pulse numbers) pattern morphology can be created. Therefore, textured surface filling by melted particles has been studies to minimize interface defaults and created mixed-mode failures for during plasma spray coatings. The drilling mechanisms have been evaluated by numerical modeling and experimental analysis. The pattern dimensions and heat affected zones has been identified. The laser treatment changes the microstructure locally.Oxydation tests have been performed to study the surface pre-tratments effects on oxide nature and mass gain rate. The damaging mechanisms ave been studied under isotherm and cyclic high temperature tests and also under creeping and thermo-mechanical fatigue tests. Grit-blasting change the natural oxides, limits life-span and bucking failure mode have been obeserved. Natural oxides have been analyzed for the textured substraes also but anchoring mechanism enables large life-span under high temperature tests. Mechanical applied stresses (constant and cyclic) validate the beneficial effects of patterned surfaces. The interface is stronger than the coating toughness and the patterns do not create early cracks under thermo-mechanical solicitations