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Bending fatigue behavior of fused filament fabrication 3D-printed ABS and PLA joints with rotary friction welding

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This study aims to compare the fatigue behavior of similar and dissimilar polymer weld joints created after an additive manufacturing process. The fatigue samples were 3D printed in ABS and PLA using a fused filament fabrication printer. Various weld joints, including ABS/ABS, PLA/PLA, and PLA/ABS, were produced utilizing the rotary friction welding process. The fatigue behavior of these joints was evaluated using rotating-beam fatigue testing at various load levels. In addition, fatigue tests were performed on non-welded PLA and ABS samples. The findings revealed that PLA/PLA joints had superior fatigue resistance than non-welded PLA. Furthermore, in this sequence, PLA/PLA, ABS/ABS, and PLA/ABS had the highest fatigue resistance.

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Abbreviations

AM:

Additive manufacturing

PLA:

Polylactic acid

ABS:

Acrylonitrile butadiene styrene

PMMA:

Polymethyl methacrylate

PVC:

Polyvinyl chloride

PA:

Polyamide

PP:

Polypropylene

PE:

Polyethylene

FFF:

Fused filament fabrication

FDM:

Fused deposition modeling

FSW:

Friction stir-welding

FW:

Friction welding

RFW:

Rotary friction welding

NW:

No welding or non-welded

FESEM:

Field emission scanning electron microscope

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This article is funded based on a research project (Number: 21420; Date: November 20, 2021) by the Vice Chancellor of Research and Technology in Semnan University, Semnan, Iran.

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    Mohammad Sadegh Aghareb Parast, Abbasali Bagheri, Abdolvahed Kami & Mohammad Azadi

  2. Iran Technical and Vocational Training Organization, Sari, Mazandaran, Iran

    Vahid Asghari

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Parast, M.S.A., Bagheri, A., Kami, A. et al. Bending fatigue behavior of fused filament fabrication 3D-printed ABS and PLA joints with rotary friction welding. Prog Addit Manuf 7, 1345–1361 (2022). https://doi.org/10.1007/s40964-022-00307-5

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