Metal additive manufacturing is a recent breakthrough technology that promises automated production of complex geometric shapes at low operating costs. However, its potential is not yet fully exploited due to the low reproducibility of quality in mass production. The monitoring of parts quality directly during manufacturing promises to solve this problem, while machine learning showed efficient performance correlating versatile manufacturing measurements with different quality grades.
View Article and Find Full Text PDFThis work proposes a new online monitoring method for an assistance during laser osteotomy. The method allows differentiating the type of ablated tissue and the applied dose of laser energy. The setup analyzes the laser-induced acoustic emission, detected by an airborne microphone sensor.
View Article and Find Full Text PDFAcoustic Emission (AE) detection and, in particular, ultrasound detection are excellent tools for structural health monitoring or medical diagnosis. Despite the technological maturity of the well-received piezoelectric transducer, optical fiber AE detection sensors are attracting increasing attention due to their small size, and electromagnetic and chemical immunity as well as the broad frequency response of Fiber Bragg Grating (FBG) sensors in these fibers. Due to the merits of their small size, FBGs were inscribed in optical fibers with diameters of 50 and 80 μm in this work.
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View Article and Find Full Text PDFLaser welding is a key technology for many industrial applications. However, its online quality monitoring is an open issue due to the highly complex nature of the process. This work aims at enriching existing approaches in this field.
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