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Terahertz imaging and tomography as efficient instruments for testing polymer additive manufacturing objects

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Abstract

Additive manufacturing (AM) technology is not only used to make 3D objects but also for rapid prototyping. In industry and laboratories, quality controls for these objects are necessary though difficult to implement compared to classical methods of fabrication because the layer-by-layer printing allows for very complex object manufacturing that is unachievable with standard tools. Furthermore, AM can induce unknown or unexpected defects. Consequently, we demonstrate terahertz (THz) imaging as an innovative method for 2D inspection of polymer materials. Moreover, THz tomography may be considered as an alternative to x-ray tomography and cheaper 3D imaging for routine control. This paper proposes an experimental study of 3D polymer objects obtained by additive manufacturing techniques. This approach allows us to characterize defects and to control dimensions by volumetric measurements on 3D data reconstructed by tomography.

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Visualization 1: AVI (2797 KB)      Video of different projection set.
Visualization 2: AVI (10848 KB)      Video summary of information extracted from reconstruction.
Visualization 3: AVI (13876 KB)      Video summary of information extracted from reconstruction.

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