System and process for evaluating and validating additive manufacturing operations
AssigneeUnited Technologies Corporation
InventorsSergei F. Burlatsky, Dmitri Novikov, William J. Brindley, David Ulrich Furrer
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Abstract
A method of evaluating and validating additive manufacturing operations includes generating a multidimensional space defined by a plurality of bounds, determining a coordinate position of at least one additive manufacturing operation within the multi-dimensional coordinate system, and categorizing the operation as flaw free when the coordinate position is within the multi-dimensional space. Each of the bounds is defined on a distinct parameter of an additive manufacturing process, each of said parameters being a dimension in a multi-dimensional coordinate system
Claims19
A method of evaluating and validating additive manufacturing operations comprising:
- generating a multidimensional space defined by a plurality of bounds, each of said bounds being defined on a distinct parameter of an additive manufacturing process, each of said parameters being a dimension in a multi-dimensional coordinate system;
- determining a coordinate position of at least one additive manufacturing operation within the multi-dimensional coordinate system;
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- categorizing the operation as flaw free when the coordinate position is within the multi-dimensional space.
An additive manufacturing apparatus comprising:
- a chamber;
- a platform within said chamber;
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- a controller, the controlling including a processor and a memory, the memory storing instructions for causing the processor to validate at least one input operation by determining a multi-dimensional coordinate in response to receiving the at least one input operation, and comparing the multi-dimensional coordinate to a stored multi-dimensional space.
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