Deep Learning for Melt Pool Depth Contour Prediction From Surface Thermal Images via Vision Transformers

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Main Authors: Ogoke, Francis, Pak, Peter Myung-Won, Myers, Alexander, Quirarte, Guadalupe, Beuth, Jack, Malen, Jonathan, Farimani, Amir Barati
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author Ogoke, Francis
Pak, Peter Myung-Won
Myers, Alexander
Quirarte, Guadalupe
Beuth, Jack
Malen, Jonathan
Farimani, Amir Barati
author_facet Ogoke, Francis
Pak, Peter Myung-Won
Myers, Alexander
Quirarte, Guadalupe
Beuth, Jack
Malen, Jonathan
Farimani, Amir Barati
contents Insufficient overlap between the melt pools produced during Laser Powder Bed Fusion (L-PBF) can lead to lack-of-fusion defects and deteriorated mechanical and fatigue performance. In-situ monitoring of the melt pool subsurface morphology requires specialized equipment that may not be readily accessible or scalable. Therefore, we introduce a machine learning framework to correlate in-situ two-color thermal images observed via high-speed color imaging to the two-dimensional profile of the melt pool cross-section. Specifically, we employ a hybrid CNN-Transformer architecture to establish a correlation between single bead off-axis thermal image sequences and melt pool cross-section contours measured via optical microscopy. In this architecture, a ResNet model embeds the spatial information contained within the thermal images to a latent vector, while a Transformer model correlates the sequence of embedded vectors to extract temporal information. Our framework is able to model the curvature of the subsurface melt pool structure, with improved performance in high energy density regimes compared to analytical melt pool models. The performance of this model is evaluated through dimensional and geometric comparisons to the corresponding experimental melt pool observations.
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spellingShingle Deep Learning for Melt Pool Depth Contour Prediction From Surface Thermal Images via Vision Transformers
Ogoke, Francis
Pak, Peter Myung-Won
Myers, Alexander
Quirarte, Guadalupe
Beuth, Jack
Malen, Jonathan
Farimani, Amir Barati
Machine Learning
Computer Vision and Pattern Recognition
Insufficient overlap between the melt pools produced during Laser Powder Bed Fusion (L-PBF) can lead to lack-of-fusion defects and deteriorated mechanical and fatigue performance. In-situ monitoring of the melt pool subsurface morphology requires specialized equipment that may not be readily accessible or scalable. Therefore, we introduce a machine learning framework to correlate in-situ two-color thermal images observed via high-speed color imaging to the two-dimensional profile of the melt pool cross-section. Specifically, we employ a hybrid CNN-Transformer architecture to establish a correlation between single bead off-axis thermal image sequences and melt pool cross-section contours measured via optical microscopy. In this architecture, a ResNet model embeds the spatial information contained within the thermal images to a latent vector, while a Transformer model correlates the sequence of embedded vectors to extract temporal information. Our framework is able to model the curvature of the subsurface melt pool structure, with improved performance in high energy density regimes compared to analytical melt pool models. The performance of this model is evaluated through dimensional and geometric comparisons to the corresponding experimental melt pool observations.
title Deep Learning for Melt Pool Depth Contour Prediction From Surface Thermal Images via Vision Transformers
topic Machine Learning
Computer Vision and Pattern Recognition
url https://arxiv.org/abs/2404.17699