Additive manufacturing post-processing treatments, a review with emphasis on mechanical characteristics

A Diniță, A Neacșa, AI Portoacă, M Tănase, CN Ilinca… - Materials, 2023 - mdpi.com
Additive manufacturing (AM) comes in various types of technologies and comparing it with
traditional fabrication methods provides the possibility of producing complex geometric parts …

[HTML][HTML] Insights into flexural and impact properties of polymer based materials printed through fused filament fabrication: Progress in the last decade

WA Khan, M Hassan, I Ahmed, M Xiao, MI Faraz… - International Journal of …, 2024 - Elsevier
Abstract The Fused Filament Fabrication is an economic 3D printing process to produce
lightweight polymers-based structures. Therefore, it is drawing a consistently increasing …

Optimization of printing parameters to maximize the mechanical properties of 3D-printed PETG-based parts

S Valvez, AP Silva, PNB Reis - Polymers, 2022 - mdpi.com
Fused filament fabrication (FFF) is the most popular additive manufacturing method, which
allows the production of highly complex three-dimensional parts with minimal material …

Multi-functional polyamide 12 (PA12)/multiwall carbon nanotube 3D printed nanocomposites with enhanced mechanical and electrical properties

N Vidakis, M Petousis, E Velidakis… - Advanced Composite …, 2022 - Taylor & Francis
Inducing electrical properties in thermoplastic materials and enhancing their mechanical
properties with the addition of nanofiller in Fused Filament Fabrication (FFF) is the main …

Additive manufacturing of multifunctional polylactic acid (PLA)—Multiwalled carbon nanotubes (MWCNTs) nanocomposites

N Vidakis, M Petousis, M Kourinou, E Velidakis… - …, 2021 - Taylor & Francis
In this work, an industrially scalable method was developed for the preparation of
multifunctional nanocomposite filaments. Polylactic Acid (PLA) polymer matrix was enriched …

Strain rate sensitivity of polycarbonate and thermoplastic polyurethane for various 3D printing temperatures and layer heights

N Vidakis, M Petousis, A Korlos, E Velidakis… - Polymers, 2021 - mdpi.com
In this work, strain rate sensitivity was studied for 3D-printed polycarbonate (PC) and
thermoplastic polyurethane (TPU) materials. Specimens were fabricated through fused …

[HTML][HTML] The effects of thermal annealing on the performance of material extrusion 3D printed polymer parts

W Yu, X Wang, X Yin, E Ferraris, J Zhang - Materials & Design, 2023 - Elsevier
This article presents the effects of thermal annealing at elevated temperatures (> glass
transition temperature T g) on the performance of polymer parts via material extrusion 3D …

[HTML][HTML] Enhanced tensile strength of acrylonitrile butadiene styrene composite specimens fabricated by overheat fused filament fabrication printing

TQ Tran, C Canturri, X Deng, CL Tham… - Composites Part B …, 2022 - Elsevier
In this study, we apply a simple but effective method to enhance tensile strength of carbon
fiber (CF)/acrylonitrile butadiene styrene (ABS) and glass fiber (GF)/ABS specimens via …

Mechanical response assessment of antibacterial PA12/TiO2 3D printed parts: parameters optimization through artificial neural networks modeling

N Vidakis, M Petousis, N Mountakis… - … International Journal of …, 2022 - Springer
This study investigates the mechanical response of antibacterial PA12/TiO2 nanocomposite
3D printed specimens by varying the TiO2 loading in the filament, raster deposition angle …

The effect of physical aging and degradation on the re-use of polyamide 12 in powder bed fusion

B Sanders, E Cant, H Amel, M Jenkins - Polymers, 2022 - mdpi.com
Powder bed fusion (PBF) is an additive manufacturing (AM) technique which offers efficient
part-production, light-weighting, and the ability to create complex geometries. However …