Additive Manufacturing
ZEISS Correlative Solutions for Additive Manufacturing
Generating Insights to Improve Defect Detection and Mitigating their Root Causes
Highlights
- Gain an advanced understanding of build defects; such as impurities, residues, incorrect geometries
- Understand the incoming material properties, the effect of powder quality, laser parameter and layout in the CAD drawing
- Distinguish different phases in materials with high contrast, high resolution imaging
- Confirm 3D subsurface features non-destructively within the microstructure
ZEISS correlative techniques have been proven successful to identify the impurity in 3D printed parts and understand its cause by applying multiple workflows. ZEISS Xradia Versa was used to get an overview scan, the location of the suspicious bright spot was then transferred to the ZEISS Crossbeam, relocated with ZEISS Atlas 5 and finally analyzed with EDX. This approach allowed to identify the root of an impurity to be caused by an insufficient cleaning of the chamber from the former 3D print job which used a different powder material.
Complete Part
X-ray Scan
Embedding
Focused-Ion Beam Cut
Chemical Mapping