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An adaptive matrix material extrusion optimization model for in situ impregnated continuous fiber-reinforced 3D printing

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Microscopic porosity is an important cause of structural failure in 3D printing of continuous fiber reinforced polymer. To reduce the overfilling and underfilling caused during the fabrication of the molten filament under a continuous path and avoid microscopic porosity, this study proposes an adaptive co-extrusion control and optimization model to achieve uniform filling of the matrix material by dynamic adjustment. This optimization process first models the mixture ratio of the matrix material and reinforcing material using an online prepreg co-extrusion fiber filament fabrication process and then constructs a dynamic adjustment factor by analyzing the geometry of the deposition path. The dynamic extrusion volume adjustment model takes the tool path and outputs the optimized process code; therefore, it can be adapted as a post-process for similar 3D printing slicing and path planning procedures. Compared with the co-extruded model that is not optimized for matrix adaptive adjustment, the tensile and flexural strengths increased by 18% and 23.4%, respectively. The porosity decreased by 54.4%. In particular, structural failure owing to uneven filling of fiber-reinforced printed parts is avoided.

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This work is partially supported by Nano-Science and Technology Research Center at Shanghai University and the Austrian Research Promotion Agency (the Natural 3D project 860384 grant).

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  1. School of Mechatronic Engineering and Automation, Shanghai University, 99 Road Shanda, Shanghai, 200444, China

    Jinxiu Yang, Yingxin Ma & Huanxiao Wu

  2. Centre Testing International (Shanghai) Co., 1996, XinJinqiao Road, Shanghai, 201206, China

    Ling Chen & Lijing Zhang

  3. Engineering Training Center, Shanghai University, 99 Road Shanda, Shanghai, 200444, China

    Yuan Yao

  4. Shanghai Key Laboratory of Intelligent Manufacturing and Robotics, Shanghai University, 99 Road Shanda, Shanghai, 200444, China

    Yuan Yao

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Jinxiu Yang: designed the algorithms, experiments, and the drafted article. Yingxin Ma: provided continuous path filling method, experiments. Ling Chen: discussing, experiments designing and processing. Lijing Zhang: discussing, experiments designing and processing. Huanxiao Wu: completed part of the optimization algorithm. Yuan Yao: provided conceptualization, methodology, writing, review and editing.

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Yang, J., Ma, Y., Chen, L. et al. An adaptive matrix material extrusion optimization model for in situ impregnated continuous fiber-reinforced 3D printing. Int J Adv Manuf Technol 129, 1527–1545 (2023). https://doi.org/10.1007/s00170-023-12284-2

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