Fused filament fabrication (FFF) is an additive manufacturing process, which constructs
physical items by fused melt material, selectively deposited layer-by-layer through a heated …

Additive manufacturing (AM) was developed initially as a technique for rapid prototyping, to
visualize, test and authenticate a design, before end-user production of the design. In recent …

Polylactic acid (PLA) material in filament form can be 3D printed and form complex physical
models by using a low-cost material extrusion mechanism in a process that is broadly known …

Significant advances in fused deposition modeling (FDM), as well as its myriad applications,
have led to its growing prominence among additive manufacturing (AM) technologies. When …

The filament material extrusion (ME) process manufactures functional components for a
wide range of personalized applications in medicine, fashion and remanufacturing cases, or …

Nowadays, designers and engineers rely on specific manufacturing guidelines to bring
quality products to market with minimum time and error. Design for Additive Manufacturing …

Abstract 3D printing plays an excellent role in the fabrication of customized parts for a variety
of industrial sectors, but the printing parameters have a major influence on the performance …

The shift from rapid prototyping to rapid manufacturing using 3D printing is prominent after
the development of volumetric 3D printing, multi‐material printing, and functional materials …

Predicting the mechanical properties or analyzing the failure mode of fused deposition
modeling products is challenging due to the layer-by-layer structure and the manufacturing …

Due to the availability of materials and low cost for production, fused deposition modeling is
becoming the most widely used additive manufacturing (AM) technology. However, the …