Richard Leach, Nicola Senin, Adam Thompson, Siwen Chen, Vicente Rivas Santos and Lewis Newton attended the euspen/ASPE Conference on Dimensional Accuracy and Surface Finish in Additive Manufacturing
Richard Leach, Nicola Senin, Adam Thompson, Siwen Chen, Vicente Rivas Santos and Lewis Newton attended the euspen/ASPE Conference on Dimensional Accuracy and Surface Finish in Additive Manufacturing in KU Leuven, Belgium from 10th to 11th October 2017. The meeting was attended by around 80 experts and students, from a mixture of industrial and research backgrounds and from mixed fields including AM, precision engineering, quality and metrology. Many of the themes this year were well-aligned to the research of MMT and there was a focus of surface texture measurement both post and in-process. Especial focus was given to understanding the industrial specification, i.e. what accuracy is needed for function, what finishing processes are needed, etc. Vicente presented an oral paper on our work with NPL and Xaar on design for metrology, entitled “Metrological design of calibration an benchmarking artefacts for an additive manufacturing system” , Nicola presented an oral paper on our work on feature analysis of PBF surface, entitled: “Feature-based characterisation of laser powder bed fusion surfaces”, Adam presented a poster paper (first author was Carlos Gomez) on our CSI optimization work with Zygo, entitled “Optimisation of surface topography characterisation for metal additive manufacturing using coherence scanning interferometry” (see full paper and poster), Zhenkai Xu (from ACEL) presented a poster paper on defect evolution mapping, entitled “Defect evolution in laser powder bed fusion additive manufactured components during thermo-mechanical testing” and Jack Disicacca (Zygo) presented an oral paper on true-colour CSI for AM surfaces, entitled “True-color 3D surface metrology for additive manufacturing using interference microscopy”. Richard also chaired the full day session in metrology. The next meeting in the series will be in the USA in 2019.
Pre-conference dinner with friends: Richard, Vicente, Lewis, Massi Ferrucci (KU Leuven), Zengkai Xu, Adam, Andy Townsend (University of Huddersfield), Jack Disciacca (Zygo) and John Taylor (UNCC)
Vicente delivers is first ever international paper
Students enjoying the conference dinner
Jack delivers