Journal
COMPOSITES PART A-APPLIED SCIENCE AND MANUFACTURING
Volume 168, Issue -, Pages -Publisher
ELSEVIER SCI LTD
DOI: 10.1016/j.compositesa.2023.107454
Keywords
3D printing; Aligned fibre deposition; Fibre misalignment; Tow shearing
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This study investigates the mechanism of fibre deposition in conventional 3D printing and presents an aligned fibre deposition (AFD) method to improve the fibre placement. The AFD method reduces fibre waviness and twisting, resulting in smooth filament deformation, less air voids, and fibre breakage during printing. It also improves the fibre alignment angle from ±25 degrees to ±12 degrees and reduces void content to 0.27% during straight-line deposition.
This study investigates the mechanism of fibre deposition in conventional 3D printing and presents an aligned fibre deposition (AFD) method to improve the fibre placement. The deposition mechanism reveals that the cracking of the filament in the transition zone and the torsional deformation during the steering path are the main cause of the defects in the conventional printing process. The AFD method is shown to reduce and mitigate the fibre waviness and twisting, hence producing smooth filament deformation, introducing less air voids and fibre breakage during printing. It is found that the AFD method improves the fibre alignment angle from & PLUSMN;25 degrees to & PLUSMN;12 degrees and reduces the void content to 0.27 % during straight-line deposition. During curved-line printing at a large radius of curvature, tow shearing instead of fibre folding is produced by AFD method, resulting in smooth edges with less fibre breakage.
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