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The Effect of Raster Pattern and Acetic Acid Exposure on the Mechanical and Failure Properties of Additively Manufactured PLA and PLA-wood Composite Specimens

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Understanding how additively manufactured components interact with a given environment is critical for the furthering of the technology. Specimens composed of polylactic acid and a polylactic acid-wood composite were made with the additive manufacturing process of fused filament fabrication. The effect of raster pattern as well as exposure to acetic acid (in the form of apple cider vinegar) on mechanical properties was made via tensile testing and dynamic mechanical analysis. Exposure to the apple cider vinegar occurred at a temperature of 60 °C for a duration of 168 h. Differences between sample pools were ascertained by application of the Tukey–Kramer honestly significant difference test to collected data. The relationship between moisture absorption and raster pattern was assessed and found to differ between material types. A comprehensive fracture surface analysis was carried out with scanning electron microscopy which gave insight to the effect of raster pattern and material type on fracture surface morphology. It was also noted that bacterial growth occurred on the PLA-wood composite specimens, but not on the PLA specimens. A key observation made here was the presence of adiabatic shear bands, which is potentially the first time this phenomenon has been observed in the case of fused filament fabrication.

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The work presented here was carried out in the Polymer Extrusion Lab (PEL) at The University of Texas at El Paso (UTEP). The work was the result of the final class project for Fall 2022 section of MME 4310 /5390 / MASE 6390 Polymer Engineering, a cross-listed course taught in the Department of Metallurgical, Materials and Biomedical Engineering (MMBME). The authors are also grateful for support from the National Science Foundation (NSF) under Grant Number CMMI 2227573.

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    Luis E. Lares Carrillo, Jose F. Salazar & David A. Roberson

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    Luis E. Lares Carrillo, Jose F. Salazar, Mckenna M. Hitter, Damian E. Alvarez, Mario Arana Contreras, Veronica G. Contreras Guerrero, Jordan S. Hitter, Daniel A. Morales, Alan Nunez, Arturo Villegas & David A. Roberson

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Lares Carrillo, L.E., Salazar, J.F., Hitter, M.M. et al. The Effect of Raster Pattern and Acetic Acid Exposure on the Mechanical and Failure Properties of Additively Manufactured PLA and PLA-wood Composite Specimens. J Fail. Anal. and Preven. 23, 1298–1312 (2023). https://doi.org/10.1007/s11668-023-01681-0

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