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Title: Highly oriented carbon fiber–polymer composites via additive manufacturing

Abstract

Additive manufacturing, diverging from traditional manufacturing techniques, such as casting and machining materials, can handle complex shapes with great design flexibility without the typical waste. Although this technique has been mainly used for rapid prototyping, interest is growing in using this method to directly manufacture actual parts of complex shape. To use 3D-printing additive manufacturing in wide spread applications, the technique and the feedstock materials require improvements to meet the mechanical requirements of load-bearing components. Thus, we investigated the short fiber (0.2 mm to 0.4 mm) reinforced acrylonitrile-butadiene-styrene composites as a feedstock for 3D-printing in terms of their processibility, microstructure and mechanical performance; and also provided comparison with traditional compression molded composites. The tensile strength and modulus of 3D-printed samples increased ~115% and ~700%, respectively. 3D-printer yielded samples with very high fiber orientation in printing direction (up to 91.5 %), whereas, compression molding process yielded samples with significantly less fiber orientation. Microstructure-mechanical property relationships revealed that although the relatively high porosity is observed in the 3D-printed composites as compared to those produced by the conventional compression molding technique, they both exhibited comparable tensile strength and modulus. Furthermore, this phenomena is explained based on the changes in fiber orientation, dispersion andmore » void formation.« less

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  1. Oak Ridge National Lab. (ORNL), Oak Ridge, TN (United States)
Publication Date:
Research Org.:
Oak Ridge National Laboratory (ORNL), Oak Ridge, TN (United States). Manufacturing Demonstration Facility (MDF)
Sponsoring Org.:
USDOE Laboratory Directed Research and Development (LDRD) Program
OSTI Identifier:
1185523
Alternate Identifier(s):
OSTI ID: 1556793
Grant/Contract Number:  
AC05-00OR22725
Resource Type:
Accepted Manuscript
Journal Name:
Composites Science and Technology
Additional Journal Information:
Journal Volume: 105; Journal Issue: 5; Journal ID: ISSN 0266-3538
Publisher:
Elsevier
Country of Publication:
United States
Language:
English
Subject:
36 MATERIALS SCIENCE; carbon fibers; short-fiber composites; polymer-matrix composites; mechanical properties; extrusion

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Tekinalp, Halil L., Kunc, Vlastimil, Velez-Garcia, Gregorio M., Duty, Chad E., Love, Lonnie J., Naskar, Amit K., Blue, Craig A., and Ozcan, Soydan. Highly oriented carbon fiber–polymer composites via additive manufacturing. United States: N. p., 2014. Web. doi:10.1016/j.compscitech.2014.10.009.
Tekinalp, Halil L., Kunc, Vlastimil, Velez-Garcia, Gregorio M., Duty, Chad E., Love, Lonnie J., Naskar, Amit K., Blue, Craig A., & Ozcan, Soydan. Highly oriented carbon fiber–polymer composites via additive manufacturing. United States. https://doi.org/10.1016/j.compscitech.2014.10.009
Tekinalp, Halil L., Kunc, Vlastimil, Velez-Garcia, Gregorio M., Duty, Chad E., Love, Lonnie J., Naskar, Amit K., Blue, Craig A., and Ozcan, Soydan. Thu . "Highly oriented carbon fiber–polymer composites via additive manufacturing". United States. https://doi.org/10.1016/j.compscitech.2014.10.009. https://www.osti.gov/servlets/purl/1185523.
@article{osti_1185523,
title = {Highly oriented carbon fiber–polymer composites via additive manufacturing},
author = {Tekinalp, Halil L. and Kunc, Vlastimil and Velez-Garcia, Gregorio M. and Duty, Chad E. and Love, Lonnie J. and Naskar, Amit K. and Blue, Craig A. and Ozcan, Soydan},
abstractNote = {Additive manufacturing, diverging from traditional manufacturing techniques, such as casting and machining materials, can handle complex shapes with great design flexibility without the typical waste. Although this technique has been mainly used for rapid prototyping, interest is growing in using this method to directly manufacture actual parts of complex shape. To use 3D-printing additive manufacturing in wide spread applications, the technique and the feedstock materials require improvements to meet the mechanical requirements of load-bearing components. Thus, we investigated the short fiber (0.2 mm to 0.4 mm) reinforced acrylonitrile-butadiene-styrene composites as a feedstock for 3D-printing in terms of their processibility, microstructure and mechanical performance; and also provided comparison with traditional compression molded composites. The tensile strength and modulus of 3D-printed samples increased ~115% and ~700%, respectively. 3D-printer yielded samples with very high fiber orientation in printing direction (up to 91.5 %), whereas, compression molding process yielded samples with significantly less fiber orientation. Microstructure-mechanical property relationships revealed that although the relatively high porosity is observed in the 3D-printed composites as compared to those produced by the conventional compression molding technique, they both exhibited comparable tensile strength and modulus. Furthermore, this phenomena is explained based on the changes in fiber orientation, dispersion and void formation.},
doi = {10.1016/j.compscitech.2014.10.009},
journal = {Composites Science and Technology},
number = 5,
volume = 105,
place = {United States},
year = {Thu Oct 16 00:00:00 EDT 2014},
month = {Thu Oct 16 00:00:00 EDT 2014}
}

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Thermal and mechanical properties of polyamide 12/graphene nanoplatelets nanocomposites and parts fabricated by fused deposition modeling: ARTICLE
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A Sensitivity Analysis-Based Parameter Optimization Framework for 3D Printing of Continuous Carbon Fiber/Epoxy Composites
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3D Printing of Textiles: Potential Roadmap to Printing with Fibers
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Multimaterial magnetically assisted 3D printing of composite materials
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Investigations for Thermal and Electrical Conductivity of ABS-Graphene Blended Prototypes
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Optimization and Characterization of Preceramic Inks for Direct Ink Writing of Ceramic Matrix Composite Structures
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Anisotropic Properties of Polylactic acid–carbon Fiber Composites Prepared by Droplet spray Additive Manufacturing
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A Sensitivity Analysis-Based Parameter Optimization Framework for 3D Printing of Continuous Carbon Fiber/Epoxy Composites
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Mechanical, Thermal, and Shape Memory Properties of Three-Dimensional Printing Biomass Composites
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Flexural Properties and Fracture Behavior of CF/PEEK in Orthogonal Building Orientation by FDM: Microstructure and Mechanism
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Reinforcement of Polylactic Acid for Fused Deposition Modeling Process with Nano Particles Treated Bamboo Powder
journal, July 2019