Thermal imaging for assessment of Electron-Beam Freeform Fabrication (EBF3) additive manufacturing deposits

Proceedings of SPIE - The International Society for Optical Engineering

Volumn 8705, Issue , 2013, Pages

  Zalameda, Joseph N ^a   Burke, Eric R ^a   Hafley, Robert A ^a   Taminger, Karen M B ^a   Domack, Christopher S ^b   Brewer, Amy ^a   Martin, Richard E ^a  

^a NASA LANGLEY RESEARCH CENTER   (United States)

^b Analytical Mechanics Asociates ^*  (United States)

Author keywords

additive manufacturing; E beam deposition; image analysis; molten pool; near infrared (NIR) imaging; nondestructive evaluation

Indexed keywords

ADDITIVE MANUFACTURING; E-BEAM DEPOSITION; MOLTEN POOL; NEAR-INFRARED IMAGING; NON DESTRUCTIVE EVALUATION;

AUTOMOBILE MANUFACTURE; CAMERAS; DEPOSITS; ELECTRON BEAMS; IMAGE ANALYSIS; IMAGE PROCESSING; INFRARED IMAGING; INFRARED RADIATION; NASA; NONDESTRUCTIVE EXAMINATION; RAPID PROTOTYPING; TEMPERATURE MEASUREMENT; WIRE;

INFRARED DEVICES;

EID: 84880242865     PISSN: 0277786X     EISSN: 1996756X     Source Type: Conference Proceeding    
DOI: 10.1117/12.2018233     Document Type: Conference Paper

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