Machine learning-based prediction of thermal profiles during laser-based additive manufacturing
摘要
Laser Powder Bed Fusion (L-PBF) is distinguished by its precision in fabricating intricate structures, yet accurately predicting thermal profiles remains challenging due to the computational complexity of traditional physics-based models. This study explores the application of the Pix2Pix Generative Adversarial Network (GAN) framework for predicting thermal maps in L-PBF processes across multiple materials, including 316 stainless steel alloy (SS316L), aluminum alloy (AlSi10Mg), pure copper (Cu), and pure tungsten (W). Unlike conventional image-to-image translation tasks, where input and output images exhibit pixel-to-pixel spatial correlation, this work maps additive manufacturing process parameters encoded as images lacking spatial correlation to thermal profiles representing temperature distributions. The proposed approach demonstrates high accuracy (Mean Squared Error (MSE)