Mechanical and Physical Properties of 3D Printed Polymer Materials
A special issue of Polymers (ISSN 2073-4360). This special issue belongs to the section "Polymer Analysis and Characterization".
Deadline for manuscript submissions: closed (15 January 2025) | Viewed by 31160
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Interests: mechanical engineering; materials engineering; polymers; composites; nanomaterials; environmental effects
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Dear Colleagues,
Additive manufacturing is becoming widely applied as a manufacturing process in both the aerospace and automotive fields, mainly due to design flexibility, a reduction in the design-to-manufacturing cycle time, the capability to produce complex shapes without manufacturing restraints, a reduction in joints and connections, and a decrease in raw material waste. Selective laser sintering, selective laser melting, fused deposition modelling, and stereolithography are the most common and popular additive manufacturing techniques. Various polymers applied in the 3D printing technique more or less demonstrate anisotropic material behaviour. The printing quality of 3D-printed parts can be evaluated through their mechanical properties. The selection of processing conditions (e.g., cooling and/or annealing temperature) and manufacturing parameters (e.g., raster angle and orientation, layer thickness, raster-to-raster gap, etc.) could influence mechanical properties in the short- and long-term.
This Special Issue aims to present current scientific results regarding the effects of the processing conditions and manufacturing parameters on the mechanical and physical properties of 3D-printed polymers, including experimental characterization and modelling.
Dr. Tatjana Glaskova-Kuzmina
Guest Editor
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Keywords
- additive manufacturing
- 3D-printed polymers
- processing conditions
- manufacturing parameters
- mechanical properties
- modelling
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