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Mechanical and Tribological Characteristics of Polymer Composites Developed by Fused Filament Fabrication

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Fused Deposition Modeling Based 3D Printing

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The concept of 3D printing also known as Additive Manufacturing (AM) is gaining huge importance from industrialists as well as researchers. Fused Filament Fabrication (FFF) is a major share holder of AM in the present market, which uses polymer in the form of filament to be used as a raw material for development of either prototype or functional models. The creation of any complex model can be easily fabricated by FFF. The model to be printed is first developed in any CAD form and then converted to .stl file format, which is later sliced and then added as an input to the 3D printer. The option of using AM is opening a wide way, for enhancement in design properties and quick printing. There remains a certain constraint with usage of these polymers alone in attainment of required properties. Therefore, the need for enhancement of properties of fabricated parts is of much necessary, which could be possible by addition of filler material. Polymer alone would not be able to provide required mechanical properties therefore the filler material either in the form of macro or micro particles or even in the form of nano particles is used to enhance the properties. Several researchers have tried various combination of filler material with the matrix for increase in specified properties. This chapter provides an insight towards FFF and its necessity, discusses the various polymer composites used in FFF, mechanical and tribological behaviour of polymer composites with variety of reinforcement addition and its potential applications and scope of FFF in near future.

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  1. Automobile Engineering, Dayananda Sagar College of Engineering, Bangalore, 560078, India

    Vijay Tambrallimath

  2. Mechanical Engineering, Dayananda Sagar College of Engineering, Bangalore, 560078, India

    R. Keshavamurthy

  3. School of Mechanical Engineering, KLE Technological University, Hubballi, 580021, India

    Arun Patil

  4. School of Mechanical and Automobile Engineering, Jain University, Bangalore, India

    H. Adarsha

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Tambrallimath, V., Keshavamurthy, R., Patil, A., Adarsha, H. (2021). Mechanical and Tribological Characteristics of Polymer Composites Developed by Fused Filament Fabrication. In: Dave, H.K., Davim, J.P. (eds) Fused Deposition Modeling Based 3D Printing. Materials Forming, Machining and Tribology. Springer, Cham. https://doi.org/10.1007/978-3-030-68024-4_8

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