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An Adaptive Discrete Element Method for Physical Modeling of the Selective Laser Sintering Process

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Selective Laser Sintering (SLS) has recently become one of the fastest growing additive manufacturing processes due to its capability of fabricating metal parts with high dimensional accuracy and surface quality. Physical modeling of this process plays an important role in properly controlling the process parameters of the process. In this paper, we present a 3 dimensional, adaptive discrete element method for simulation of the SLS process on personal computers. The presented method models the laser-powder interaction at particle level, achieving high simulation accuracy while adaptively increasing the discrete element size as local temperatures drop inside the powder bed for improved efficiency. Numerical shape functions are developed for calculating individual particle temperatures at any point during the simulation. Results show that this physical model improves the runtime significantly in virtual simulation of SLS process without loss of simulation accuracy.

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Applied Mechanics and Materials (Volume 869)

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69-84

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https://doi.org/10.4028/www.scientific.net/AMM.869.69

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August 2017

Authors:

Arash Gobal*, Bahram Ravani

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Adaptive Simulation, Discrete Element Method (DEM), Selective Laser Sintering (SLS)

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