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Influence of Thermal Processing Conditions on Mechanical and Material Properties of 3D Printed Thin-Structures Using PEEK Material

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Poly-ether-ether-ketone (PEEK) was one of the most promising engineering plastics, which had been widely employed in the aerospace, biomedical and automotive industry and manufacturing. The design of various 3D printing (3DP) parameters had a significant impact on its mechanical and thermal properties. This study aimed to investigate the thermodynamic properties of thin-structure PEEK samples by printing them under various conditions, including varying substrate and ambient temperature parameters, under a control- method. Numerous critical properties such as interlayer bonding force, tensile and bending properties, dynamic mechanical properties, and crystallization had been investigated in this work. The results indicated that the maximum relative interlayer bonding force was 989.91 N, while comparing to the lowest initial ambient and substrate temperature 60 °C and 90 °C, the optimal tensile and bending strengths both increased by 28.46% and 13.86% to 86.62 MPa and 113.21 MPa under ambient and substrate temperature 90 °C and 160 °C, respectively. Concurrently, the crystallinity increased by 6.67% to 31.56%. Mechanical and thermal properties had been significantly improved when appropriate substrate temperature parameters were used during the printing process, demonstrating the enormous potential in printing PEEK material. Thermal processing was another critical factor in achieving higher performance of 3D printing PEEK components.

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Acknowledgements

This research was supported by National University of Singapore Centre for Additive Manufacturing (Department of Mechanical Engineering, NUS, Singapore) and Advanced Materials Additive Manufacturing (AM)2 Lab (School of Mechanical and Aerospace Engineering, Jilin University, China).

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This research was sponsored by the Key Scientific and Technological Research Project of Jilin Province (No. 20180201055GX); Project of the International Science and Technology Cooperation of Jilin Province (No. 20170414043GH); Industrial Innovation Project of Jilin Province (No.20150204037SF).

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    Han Qu, Wei Zhang, Zihan Li, Liyao Hou, Guiwei Li & Wenzheng Wu

  2. Department of Mechanical Engineering, National University of Singapore, Singapore, 117576, Singapore

    Jerry YH Fuh

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WW, JYHF and GL provided the idea, HQ conceived the experiment process and cooperated with WZ, ZL and LH to publish it. HQ collated the data and analyzed to finish the manuscript. All authors worked together to revise and contributed to the final conclusions.

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Qu, H., Zhang, W., Li, Z. et al. Influence of Thermal Processing Conditions on Mechanical and Material Properties of 3D Printed Thin-Structures Using PEEK Material. Int. J. Precis. Eng. Manuf. 23, 689–699 (2022). https://doi.org/10.1007/s12541-022-00650-1

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