Supportless Lattice Structures for Energy Absorption Fabricated by Fused Deposition Modeling

Curved Layer Fused Deposition Modeling

Current Fused Deposition Modeling (FDM) technologies deposit material as flat layers. The result is a “stair-case” effect on non-vertical or horizontal surfaces, and compromised part strength because of weakness between the laminations. This paper describes a FDM method through which layers of build material are deposited as curved layers following the shape of the part, thus removing the stair...

Three-dimensional Composite Lattice Structures Fabricated by Electrical Discharge Machining

We present a novel method for fabricating carbon fiber composite sandwich panels with lattice core construction by means of electrical discharge machining (EDM). First, flattop corrugated carbon fiber composite cores were fabricated by a hot press molding method. Then, two composite face sheets were bonded to each corrugated core to create precursor sandwich panels. These panels were transforme...

Anisotropic Mechanical Properties of ABS Parts Fabricated by Fused Deposition Modelling

Dual-color mixing for fused deposition modeling printers

In this work we detail a method that leverages the two color heads of recent low-end fused deposition modeling (FDM) 3D printers to produce continuous tone imagery. The challenge behind producing such two-tone imagery is how to finely interleave the two colors while minimizing the switching between print heads, making each color printed span as long and continuous as possible to avoid artifacts...

Extruder path generation for Curved Layer Fused Deposition Modeling

Extruder path generation for a new rapid prototyping technique named “Curved Layer Fused Deposition Modeling” (CLFDM) has been presented. The prototyping technique employs deposition of material in curved layers in contrast to flat layers as in Fused Deposition Modeling (FDM). The proposed method would be particularly advantageous over FDM in the manufacturing of thin, curved parts (shells) by ...