| Title: |
Automated Non-Destructive Inspection of Fused Filament Fabrication Components Using Thermographic Signal Reconstruction |
| Authors: |
Siegel, Joshua E., Beemer, Maria F., Shepard, Steven M. |
| Publication Year: |
2019 |
| Collection: |
Computer Science |
| Subject Terms: |
Electrical Engineering and Systems Science - Image and Video Processing, Computer Science - Computer Vision and Pattern Recognition |
| More Details: |
Manufacturers struggle to produce low-cost, robust and complex components at manufacturing lot-size one. Additive processes like Fused Filament Fabrication (FFF) inexpensively produce complex geometries, but defects limit viability in critical applications. We present an approach to high-accuracy, high-throughput and low-cost automated non-destructive testing (NDT) for FFF interlayer delamination using Flash Thermography (FT) data processed with Thermographic Signal Reconstruction (TSR) and Artificial Intelligence (AI). A Deep Neural Network (DNN) attains 95.4% per-pixel accuracy when differentiating four delamination thicknesses 5mm subsurface in PolyLactic Acid (PLA) widgets, and 98.6% accuracy in differentiating acceptable from unacceptable condition for the same components. Automated inspection enables time- and cost-efficient 100% inspection for delamination defects, supporting FFF's use in critical and small-batch applications. |
| Document Type: |
Working Paper |
| DOI: |
10.1016/j.addma.2019.100923 |
| Access URL: |
http://arxiv.org/abs/1907.02634 |
| Accession Number: |
edsarx.1907.02634 |
| Database: |
arXiv |
