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Effects of infill patterns on part performances and energy consumption in acrylonitrile butadiene styrene fused filament fabrication via industrial-grade machine

Authors: Leopoldo De Bernardez, Giampaolo Campana, Mattia Mele, Juan Sanguineti, Cristian Sandre, Sebastián Matías Mur

Published in: Progress in Additive Manufacturing | Issue 2/2023

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The industrial applications of Additive manufacturing technologies and systems are quickly increasing due to the high flexibility in the part design allowing for mass customisation and reduction of material usage. Besides the absence of manufacturing tools permits a reduction of the time to market. Despite these relevant advantages, building time is generally high and it can typically determine significant energy consumption. Several studies investigate the effect of infill patterns on material mechanical properties to address the design of deposition patterns but these works do not take into consideration relevant aspects related to the manufacturing stage, such as the energy consumption, both the building paths and time. The choice of the infill pattern greatly affects the balance amongst part performances, energy and material consumption. On the other hand, a reduction of the deposited material can effectively reduce the building time and then the process energy. In the present paper, an index that quantifies this balance for a largely used Additive Manufacturing technology is introduced. For this purpose, an experimental investigation is carried out by monitoring the process energy during the manufacturing of specimens characterised by different infill patterns. Then, physical and mechanical properties are measured to compose the proposed index.

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Title: Effects of infill patterns on part performances and energy consumption in acrylonitrile butadiene styrene fused filament fabrication via industrial-grade machine
Authors: Leopoldo De Bernardez
Giampaolo Campana
Mattia Mele
Juan Sanguineti
Cristian Sandre
Sebastián Matías Mur
Publication date: 18-06-2022
Publisher: Springer International Publishing
Published in: Progress in Additive Manufacturing / Issue 2/2023
Print ISSN: 2363-9512
Electronic ISSN: 2363-9520
DOI: https://doi.org/10.1007/s40964-022-00316-4

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