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Eun-Ah Kim 1 Article
Characterization and Classification of Pores in Metal 3D Printing Materials with X-ray Tomography and Machine Learning
Eun-Ah Kim, Se-Hun Kwon, Dong-Yeol Yang, Ji-Hun Yu, Kwon-Ill Kim, Hak-Sung Lee
J Powder Mater. 2021;28(3):208-215.   Published online June 1, 2021
DOI: https://doi.org/10.4150/KPMI.2021.28.3.208
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Metal three-dimensional (3D) printing is an important emerging processing method in powder metallurgy. There are many successful applications of additive manufacturing. However, processing parameters such as laser power and scan speed must be manually optimized despite the development of artificial intelligence. Automatic calibration using information in an additive manufacturing database is desirable. In this study, 15 commercial pure titanium samples are processed under different conditions, and the 3D pore structures are characterized by X-ray tomography. These samples are easily classified into three categories, unmelted, well melted, or overmelted, depending on the laser energy density. Using more than 10,000 projected images for each category, convolutional neural networks are applied, and almost perfect classification of these samples is obtained. This result demonstrates that machine learning methods based on X-ray tomography can be helpful to automatically identify more suitable processing parameters.


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