TY - JOUR
T1 - Effect of layer thickness and raster angle on the tribological behavior of 3D printed materials
AU - Amirruddin, Muhammad Syahmi
AU - Ismail, Khairul Izwan
AU - Yap, Tze Chuen
N1 - Funding Information:
The authors would like to acknowledge Mr. Elyas Budiman bin Rahmat (lab technician) for the help and assistance. This research work was conducted as preliminary work for a project funded by Ministry of Higher Education Malaysia (MOHE). The third author would like to acknowledge MOHE for the FRGS grant with code FRGS/1/2019/TK03/HWUM/02/1.
Publisher Copyright:
Copyright 2021 Elsevier Ltd. All rights reserved.
PY - 2022/1/7
Y1 - 2022/1/7
N2 - Additive manufacturing (AM) is a manufacturing process which add material into a solid 3-dimensional product. Fused Deposition Modelling (FDM) or Fused filament Fabrication (FFF) is one of the most common additive manufacturing methods. Parts processed by FDM are usually serve as prototypes of concept design and unable to use a functioning part due to their mechanical and tribological properties. Material wear has been a huge problem for machines as it is the main contributor to machine failures. Tribological behavior of AM part are required to be enhanced if AM parts are purposed to be functioning parts. Due to the nature of manufacturing technique, the tribological properties are affected by the FDM printing parameters. In current work, tribological properties of 3D printed pins, printed at different raster angle and layer thickness were investigated. FDM printed Acrylonitrile Butadiene Styrene (ABS) and Polylactic Acid (PLA) samples were printed at three raster angle 0_, 45_ and 90_ and three layer thickness of 0.127 mm, 0.254 mm and 0.33 mm. Experiments were conducted on a pin-on-disk tribometer apparatus under dry sliding condition and fixed load of 10 N and 300 rpm. Results has shown that an increase of layer thickness promotes a decrease in friction force while an angle of 45_ displays the best wear resistance. ABS is proofed to have better wear resistance than PLA.
AB - Additive manufacturing (AM) is a manufacturing process which add material into a solid 3-dimensional product. Fused Deposition Modelling (FDM) or Fused filament Fabrication (FFF) is one of the most common additive manufacturing methods. Parts processed by FDM are usually serve as prototypes of concept design and unable to use a functioning part due to their mechanical and tribological properties. Material wear has been a huge problem for machines as it is the main contributor to machine failures. Tribological behavior of AM part are required to be enhanced if AM parts are purposed to be functioning parts. Due to the nature of manufacturing technique, the tribological properties are affected by the FDM printing parameters. In current work, tribological properties of 3D printed pins, printed at different raster angle and layer thickness were investigated. FDM printed Acrylonitrile Butadiene Styrene (ABS) and Polylactic Acid (PLA) samples were printed at three raster angle 0_, 45_ and 90_ and three layer thickness of 0.127 mm, 0.254 mm and 0.33 mm. Experiments were conducted on a pin-on-disk tribometer apparatus under dry sliding condition and fixed load of 10 N and 300 rpm. Results has shown that an increase of layer thickness promotes a decrease in friction force while an angle of 45_ displays the best wear resistance. ABS is proofed to have better wear resistance than PLA.
KW - Friction coefficient wear
KW - Fused deposition modeling
KW - Fused filament fabrication
KW - Printing parameter
KW - 3D printing
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U2 - 10.1016/j.matpr.2021.09.139
DO - 10.1016/j.matpr.2021.09.139
M3 - Article
SN - 2214-7853
VL - 48
SP - 1821
EP - 1825
JO - Materials Today: Proceedings
JF - Materials Today: Proceedings
IS - 6
ER -