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Title: Additive manufacturing of multi-directional preforms for composites: opportunities and challenges

Abstract

Current additive manufacturing methods present the potential to construct net-shape structures with complicated architectures, thus eliminating the need for multi-step processing and fasteners/joints. Combined with these features is the ability to ascribe material properties at the sub-millimeter scale, inspiring multi-material, functionally graded designs. These features make additive manufacturing an attractive option for composite materials development. In an effort to extend this family of technologies beyond nano- and micro-composites, we explore the additive manufacture of multi-directional composite preforms. This exercise has served to highlight the aspects of additive manufacturing critical to composite and general materials processing, as well as to demonstrate the high fidelity between modeled and additively manufactured structures. Within the scope of composites development, we review the state-of-the-art and discuss challenges facing the broad adoption of additive manufacturing for directionally reinforced composites processing.

Authors:
 [1];  [2];  [3];  [4];  [4];  [5];  [6];  [6];  [3]
  1. Donghua Univ., Shanghai (China). College of Textiles; Univ. of Delaware, Newark, DE (United States). Dept. of Mechanical Engineering. Center for Composite Materials
  2. Lawrence Livermore National Lab. (LLNL), Livermore, CA (United States). Materials Engineering Division
  3. Univ. of Delaware, Newark, DE (United States). Dept. of Mechanical Engineering. Center for Composite Materials
  4. Donghua Univ., Shanghai (China). College of Textiles
  5. Sungkyunkwan Univ., Suwon (Korea, Republic of). Dept. of Polymer Science and Engineering. Dept. of Energy Science
  6. Korea Inst. of Materials Science, Changwon (Korea, Republic of). Composites Research Center
Publication Date:
Research Org.:
Lawrence Livermore National Laboratory (LLNL), Livermore, CA (United States); Univ. of Delaware, Newark, DE (United States); Sungkyunkwan Univ., Suwon (Korea, Republic of); Korea Inst. of Materials Science, Changwon (Korea, Republic of); Donghua Univ., Shanghai (China)
Sponsoring Org.:
USDOE; National Research Foundation of Korea (NRF); Ministry for Education, Science and Technology (MEST) (Korea, Republic of); China Scholarship Council
OSTI Identifier:
1465281
Report Number(s):
LLNL-JRNL-747481
Journal ID: ISSN 1369-7021; 932441
Grant/Contract Number:  
AC52-07NA27344
Resource Type:
Accepted Manuscript
Journal Name:
Materials Today
Additional Journal Information:
Journal Volume: 18; Journal Issue: 9; Journal ID: ISSN 1369-7021
Publisher:
Elsevier
Country of Publication:
United States
Language:
English
Subject:
36 MATERIALS SCIENCE

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Quan, Zhenzhen, Wu, Amanda, Keefe, Michael, Qin, Xiaohong, Yu, Jianyong, Suhr, Jonghwan, Byun, Joon-Hyung, Kim, Byung-Sun, and Chou, Tsu-Wei. Additive manufacturing of multi-directional preforms for composites: opportunities and challenges. United States: N. p., 2015. Web. doi:10.1016/j.mattod.2015.05.001.
Quan, Zhenzhen, Wu, Amanda, Keefe, Michael, Qin, Xiaohong, Yu, Jianyong, Suhr, Jonghwan, Byun, Joon-Hyung, Kim, Byung-Sun, & Chou, Tsu-Wei. Additive manufacturing of multi-directional preforms for composites: opportunities and challenges. United States. https://doi.org/10.1016/j.mattod.2015.05.001
Quan, Zhenzhen, Wu, Amanda, Keefe, Michael, Qin, Xiaohong, Yu, Jianyong, Suhr, Jonghwan, Byun, Joon-Hyung, Kim, Byung-Sun, and Chou, Tsu-Wei. Sat . "Additive manufacturing of multi-directional preforms for composites: opportunities and challenges". United States. https://doi.org/10.1016/j.mattod.2015.05.001. https://www.osti.gov/servlets/purl/1465281.
@article{osti_1465281,
title = {Additive manufacturing of multi-directional preforms for composites: opportunities and challenges},
author = {Quan, Zhenzhen and Wu, Amanda and Keefe, Michael and Qin, Xiaohong and Yu, Jianyong and Suhr, Jonghwan and Byun, Joon-Hyung and Kim, Byung-Sun and Chou, Tsu-Wei},
abstractNote = {Current additive manufacturing methods present the potential to construct net-shape structures with complicated architectures, thus eliminating the need for multi-step processing and fasteners/joints. Combined with these features is the ability to ascribe material properties at the sub-millimeter scale, inspiring multi-material, functionally graded designs. These features make additive manufacturing an attractive option for composite materials development. In an effort to extend this family of technologies beyond nano- and micro-composites, we explore the additive manufacture of multi-directional composite preforms. This exercise has served to highlight the aspects of additive manufacturing critical to composite and general materials processing, as well as to demonstrate the high fidelity between modeled and additively manufactured structures. Within the scope of composites development, we review the state-of-the-art and discuss challenges facing the broad adoption of additive manufacturing for directionally reinforced composites processing.},
doi = {10.1016/j.mattod.2015.05.001},
journal = {Materials Today},
number = 9,
volume = 18,
place = {United States},
year = {Sat May 23 00:00:00 EDT 2015},
month = {Sat May 23 00:00:00 EDT 2015}
}

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