Semester

Summer

Date of Graduation

2021

Document Type

Thesis

Degree Type

MS

College

Statler College of Engineering and Mineral Resources

Department

Industrial and Managements Systems Engineering

Committee Chair

Zhichao Liu

Committee Member

Thorsten Wuest

Committee Member

Kenneth R Currie

Abstract

Directed energy deposition (DED) is a rising field in the arena of metal additive manufacturing and has extensive applications in aerospace, medical and rapid prototyping. The process parameters, such as laser power, scanning speed and specimen height, play a great deal in controlling and affecting the properties of DED fabricated parts. Nevertheless, both experimental and simulation methods have shown constraints and limited ability to generate accurate and efficient computational predictions on the correlations between the process parameters and the final part quality. In this work, a data driven machine learning model XGBoost has been built and applied to predict the tensile behaviors of the stainless steel 316 parts by DED with variation in process parameters i.e. laser power, scanning speed, layer height and energy density. For the validation purpose, molten pool temperature data has been provided to the model and it was able to predict the molten pool temperature successfully with a very high accuracy. After the tensile testing, the model was able to predict the tensile properties i.e. yield strength, elongation (%) and ultimate tensile strength of the fabricated parts with a limited size of training data and to compute the significance of the factors affecting the part quality. Performance of the model was then compared with ridge regression and XGBoost outperformed ridge regression.

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