Current advances and future perspectives of additive manufacturing for functional polymeric materials and devices

C Zhang, Y Li, W Kang, X Liu, Q Wang - SusMat, 2021 - Wiley Online Library
Abstract Three‐dimensional (3D) printing has received extensive attention due to its unique
multidimensional functionality and customizability and has been recognized as one of the …

Polymer design for 3D printing elastomers: recent advances in structure, properties, and printing

J Herzberger, JM Sirrine, CB Williams… - Progress in Polymer …, 2019 - Elsevier
Elastomers are a unique and important class of polymers that enjoy applications in virtually
every industry, including healthcare, aerospace, automotive, and apparel. However, due to …

Importance of polymer rheology on material extrusion additive manufacturing: correlating process physics to print properties

A Das, EL Gilmer, S Biria… - ACS Applied Polymer …, 2021 - ACS Publications
Recent advances in the field of additive manufacturing (AM) or 3D printing, have garnered
serious interest for its potential to substitute time-consuming and costly subtractive and …

Material extrusion‐based additive manufacturing of polypropylene: A review on how to improve dimensional inaccuracy and warpage

M Spoerk, C Holzer… - Journal of Applied …, 2020 - Wiley Online Library
Material extrusion‐based additive manufacturing (ME‐AM) is an emerging processing
technique that is characterized by the selective deposition of thermoplastic filaments in a …

FDM printability of PLA based-materials: the key role of the rheological behavior

R Arrigo, A Frache - Polymers, 2022 - mdpi.com
Fused deposition modeling (FDM) is one of the most commonly used commercial
technologies of materials extrusion-based additive manufacturing (AM), used for obtaining …

In situ monitoring for fused filament fabrication process: A review

Y Fu, A Downey, L Yuan, A Pratt, Y Balogun - Additive Manufacturing, 2021 - Elsevier
Real-time monitoring of the additive manufacturing process offers the promise of
guaranteeing product quality and increasing the efficiency of the printing process. This …

Current understanding and challenges in high temperature additive manufacturing of engineering thermoplastic polymers

A Das, CA Chatham, JJ Fallon, CE Zawaski… - Additive …, 2020 - Elsevier
The strengths of additive manufacturing (AM), especially the tool-less manufacturing
paradigm and rapid production of low-volume products, are well-aligned with the needs of …

The importance of rheological behavior in the additive manufacturing technique material extrusion

ME Mackay - Journal of Rheology, 2018 - pubs.aip.org
Material extrusion (ME), sometimes called Fused Deposition Modeling® or Fused Filament
Fabrication, is an additive manufacturing technique that places order 300 μm diameter …

Prediction of interlayer strength in material extrusion additive manufacturing

TJ Coogan, DO Kazmer - Additive Manufacturing, 2020 - Elsevier
The interlayer strengths of parts produced through material extrusion (also referred to as
fused filament fabrication or FFF) suffer due to poor interlayer contact and insufficient …

Numerical modeling of the polymer flow through the hot-end in filament-based material extrusion additive manufacturing

MP Serdeczny, R Comminal, MT Mollah… - Additive …, 2020 - Elsevier
Abstract This work presents Computational Fluid Dynamics (CFD) simulations of the polymer
flow inside the hot-end during material extrusion additive manufacturing. Two CFD models …