Ravi Shekhar Kinja
Dr. Kailash Chaudhary
Dr. Dinesh Shringi
Abstract
Fusion Modeling is a subset of additive manufacturing that uses CAD files to create a product. Additive manufacturing is widely used for prototype and low-volume production because of its durability, cost-effectiveness, safe and efficient operation, and ability to manage high-quality thermoplastics. Given its potential to facilitate the construction of functional components with complicated geometry, fused deposition modeling (FDM) has emerged as a viable additive manufacturing technique offering an alternative to traditional fabrication methods. It is possible to control the mechanical qualities of a manufactured product by adjusting many process factors. The purpose of this research is to better understand how a desktop 3D printer’s build orientation, layer thickness, and fibre volume content affect the mechanical performance of continuous fibre-reinforced composites. The mechanical response of the printed specimens is measured by performing tensile and three-point bending tests. Broken surfaces captured by a scanning electron microscope (SEM) are analyzed to ascertain the role that process factors play in the emergence of failure modes. In most situations, the findings reveal that strength and stiffness improve with a rise in fibre volume content, although the amount of improvement in mechanical performance does not.
Keywords- AM (Additive Manufacturing), 3D Printing, Mechanical Properties, Overhang angles, and Mechanical testing