Comparison of Volumetric to Surface Heating for Filament–Fed Laser Heated Additive Manufacturing of Glass
Abstract
This paper presents work using a laser-heated fiber-fed technique to deposit fully dense glass. A stationary laser beam is focused on the intersection of a quartz filament with the workpiece. The workpiece is articulated on a precision 4-axis stage. The laser beam continuously melts the glass filament so that its viscosity is low enough to wet and fuse the workpiece. The focus of this paper is to compare volumetric heating of the glass as opposed to surface heat flux. CO2 laser radiation (λ = 10.6 µm) strongly couples to the silica phonon mode (optical penetration depth < 5 µm). This requires printing at very slow rates in order to allow the heat to diffuse from the surface of the glass to the interface of the filament and the workpiece. CO laser radiation (λ = 5.3 µm) provides volumetric absorption because of weaker coupling (optical penetration depth of ∼500 µm for fused quartz). This produces a more uniform temperature profile in the glass filament and supports deposition at greater speeds. The maximum deposition rates for 0.5 and 1.0 mm diameter fused quartz filaments are determined by extrapolating the power required to achieve wetting using both CO2 and CO lasers. The results show that volumetric heating (CO laser) produces surface wetting with significantly lower power. The results are compared to a 1D conduction model which suggests that still greater deposition speeds are possible as the optical penetration depth approaches the filament diameter.
Recommended Citation
N. E. Capps et al., "Comparison of Volumetric to Surface Heating for Filament–Fed Laser Heated Additive Manufacturing of Glass," Proceedings of the Summer Heat Transfer Conference (2019, Bellevue, WA), American Society of Mechanical Engineers (ASME), Jul 2019.
The definitive version is available at https://doi.org/10.1115/HT2019-3634
Meeting Name
Summer Heat Transfer Conference (2019: Jul. 15-18, Bellevue, WA)
Department(s)
Mechanical and Aerospace Engineering
Research Center/Lab(s)
Intelligent Systems Center
Second Research Center/Lab
Center for Research in Energy and Environment (CREE)
Document Type
Article - Conference proceedings
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Citation
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text
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English
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© 2019 American Society of Mechanical Engineers (ASME), All rights reserved.
Publication Date
18 Jul 2019
