3D printing of textile-based structures by Fused Deposition Modelling (FDM) with different polymer materials
By R. Melnikova, A. Ehrmann, K. Finsterbusch. 2014
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3D printing is a form of additive manufacturing, i.e. creating objects by sequential layering, for pre-production or production. After creating a 3D model with a CAD program, a printable file is used to create a layer design which is printed afterwards. While often more expensive than traditional techniques like injection moulding, 3D printing can significantly enhance production times of small parts produced in small numbers, additionally allowing for large flexibility and the possibility to create parts that would be impossible to produce with conventional techniques. The Fused Deposition Modelling technique uses a plastic filament which is pushed through a heated extrusion nozzle melting the material. Depending on the material, different challenges occur in the production process, and the produced part shows different mechanical properties. The article describes some standard and novel materials and their influence on the resulting parts.
Subfields: Automotive Engineering, General Materials Science, Industrial and Manufacturing Engineering
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Citations in the corpus
- A review of the fatigue behavior of 3D printed polymers (2019, background): “As a result of these improvements in AM, various industries such as biomedical [3–10], aerospace [11], apparel [12,13], dentistry [14], automotive [15], electronics [2,16], and oceanography [17] are researching this technique to produce parts.”
- Fused deposition modelling: Current status, methodology, applications and future prospects (2021, methodology): “It has been demonstrated that single-face weft knitted fabric can be fabricated successfully by FDM, as shown in Figure 11 [285].”
- Investigating the shape memory properties of 4D printed polylactic acid (PLA) and the concept of 4D printing onto nylon fabrics for the creation of smart textiles (2017, background): “Researchers have coated and weaved textiles with SMPs, but there is limited research in 3D printing SMPs onto textiles (Hu and Chen 2010, Hu et al. 2012, Melnikova et al. 2014).”