FEMTOSECOND LASER-BASED ULTRASONIC MEASURING APPARATUS FOR 3D PRINTING PROCESS AND 3D PRINTING SYSTEM HAVING THE SAME

    公开(公告)号:US20210199567A1

    公开(公告)日:2021-07-01

    申请号:US17114647

    申请日:2020-12-08

    发明人: Hoon SOHN Peipei LIU

    摘要: Disclosed are a femtosecond laser-based ultrasonic measuring apparatus for a 3D printing process, and a 3D printing system including the apparatus. The apparatus includes a femtosecond laser source for generating a femtosecond laser beam irradiated to inspect a state of a printing object formed by melting a base material by a printing laser beam irradiated from the laser source for 3D printing, a beam splitter for separating the femtosecond laser beam generated by the femtosecond laser source into a pump laser beam and a probe laser beam, an electric/acoustic optical modulator for modulating the pump laser beam, a time delay unit for delaying the probe laser beam, a photo detector for detecting the probe laser beam reflected by the printing object, and a lock-in amplifier for detect an amplitude and a phase of the output signal from the photo detector. The femtosecond laser source is disposed coaxially with a laser source for 3D printing.

    METHOD OF INSPECTING AND EVALUATING COATING STATE OF STEEL STRUCTURE AND SYSTEM THEREFOR

    公开(公告)号:US20210201472A1

    公开(公告)日:2021-07-01

    申请号:US17128680

    申请日:2020-12-21

    摘要: Disclosed are a method of inspecting and evaluating a coating state of a steel structure, and a system therefor. A plurality of vision images and thermal images are acquired. While acquiring the thermal images, a desired region is heated. After the thermal images and the vision images in a dynamic state are reconstructed into a time-spatial-integrated thermal image and a time-spatial-integrated vision image in a static state, respectively, an overlay image is generated by overlaying the two images. A deterioration region of a coating is detected, and coating deterioration is classified by characteristics. A size of the coating deterioration region is quantified. A thickness of the coating is inspected by analyzing thermal energy measured from the time-spatial-integrated thermal image. A coating grade is calculated by comprehensively evaluating a coating deterioration inspection result and a coating thickness inspection result. A state evaluation report for the steel structure is automatically created.