Abstract
At the University of Twente research has been executed on Additive Manufacturing using continuous fibers based material extrusion. A pultrusion based process has been developed to transform readily available commingled yarn to a polypropylene (PP) E-glass filament. A deposition device has been developed that among others includes a novel low cost fiber cutting device and a modified deposition strategy. Test samples were printed with a flexural modulus of 800% compared to 100% PP samples. Further void percentages up to 20% were found in the printed test samples. Future reduction of this void percentage will further increase the obtainable flexural modulus.
| Original language | English |
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| Pages (from-to) | 317-322 |
| Number of pages | 6 |
| Journal | Procedia CIRP |
| Volume | 66 |
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| Publication status | Published - 2017 |
| Event | 1st CIRP Conference on Composite Materials Parts Manufacturing 2017 - Karlsruhe, Germany Duration: 8 Jun 2017 → 9 Jun 2017 Conference number: 1 http://www.cirp-ccmpm2017.com/ |
Keywords
- Continuous fiber
- Fiber reinforced plastic
- Rapid prototyping