System and process for evaluating and manufacturing additively manufactured components
AssigneeUnited Technologies Corporation
InventorsJohn P. Rizzo, JR., Adam Z. Doherty, Jesse R. Boyer
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Abstract
An exemplary method for determining a set of additive manufacturing parameters includes, a) determining a nominal parameter of at least one surface of a component, b) determining at least a second order variation in the nominal parameter, c) predicting an actual resultant dimension based at least in part on the nominal parameter and the second order variation, and d) adjusting at least one additive manufacturing process parameter in response to the predicted actual resultant dimension.
Claims19
A method for determining a set of additive manufacturing parameters comprising:
- a) determining a nominal parameter of at least one surface of a component;
- b) determining at least a second order variation in said nominal parameter;
- c) predicting an actual resultant dimension based at least in part on the nominal parameter and the second order variation;
- and
- d) adjusting at least one additive manufacturing process parameter in response to said predicted actual resultant dimension.
An additive manufacturing machine comprising:
- An additive manufacturing chamber;
- and
- A controller operable to control said additive manufacturing chamber, wherein the controller includes a processor and a non-transitory memory, the non-transitory memory including instructions operable to iteratively convert a set of desired output component parameters into asset of manufacturing parameters, the manufacturing parameters being adjusted to compensate for at least one second order variation.
A method for iteratively determining a set of additive manufacturing parameters comprising:
- predicting an actual resultant dimension based at least in part on a nominal parameter and a second order variation in the additive manufacturing process, and adjusting at least one additive manufacturing process parameter in response to said predicted actual resultant dimension.
Dependencies are inferred from the claim text.