Poster
in
Workshop: AI for Accelerated Materials Design (AI4Mat-2023)
Self-supervised Crack Detection in X-ray Computed Tomography Data of Additive Manufacturing Parts
Saber Nemati · Seyedeh Shaghayegh Rabbanian · Hao Wang · Leslie Butler · Shengmin Guo
Keywords: [ semantic segmentation ] [ Self-supervised learning ] [ x-ray computed tomography ] [ additive manufacturing ]
Following the current trends for minimizing human intervention in training intelligent architectures, this paper proposes a self-supervised method for quality control of Additive Manufacturing (AM) parts. An Inconel 939 sample is fabricated with the Laser Powder Bed Fusion (L-PBF) method and scanned using X-ray Computed Tomography (XCT) to reveal the internal cracks. A self-supervised approach was adopted by employing three modules that generate crack-like features for training a CycleGAN network. The proposed method generates random cracks based on a combination of uniform and normal random variables and outperforms the others in fine-grain crack detection and capturing narrow tips. A preliminary investigation of the training process shows that the algorithm has the capability of predicting the crack propagation direction as well.