Stereolithography Additive Manufacturing of Glass/Ceramic Composite Components with Self-similar Structures

Ceramic and glass materials exhibit desirable properties for various applications. A glass-ceramic composite material could be utilized as an alternative to pure ceramic materials, with a reduced energy requirement processing recycling. In this work, customized photosensitive pastes containing zirconia particles were created processed by stereolithography. Complex 2- dimensional 3-dimensional Hilbert curve structures designed analysed computational fluid dynamics visualize heat transfer streamline distributions. Paste composition, stereolithography process parameters, post-processing treatments investigated, complex components of the custom successfully fabricated.