ArticleMicromachines2021
Porous PLAs with Controllable Density by FDM 3D Printing and Chemical Foaming Agent.
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- Unveiling the Printability and Performance of 3D Printed Ethylene-Vinyl Acetate Stretchable Foams.ACS applied materials & interfaces · 2026Article
- Experimental Study on the Influence of Inter-Layer Ironing Parameters on the Surface Quality of MEX-Fabricated PLA-LW and PLA Parts.Materials (Basel, Switzerland) · 2026Article
- Performance Enhancement of Lightweight PLA Parts Printed by FFF Using Taguchi-GRA Method.Polymers · 2025Article
- Characterization of PLA/LW-PLA Composite Materials Manufactured by Dual-Nozzle FDM 3D-Printing Processes.Polymers · 2024Article
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- Effect of the Material Extrusion Process Parameters on the Compressive Properties of Additively Manufactured Foamed and Nonfoamed Polylactic Acid Structures.3D printing and additive manufacturing · 2024Article
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- A Review of the Preparation of Porous Fibers and Porous Parts by a Novel Micro-Extrusion Foaming Technique.Materials (Basel, Switzerland) · 2023Review
- Use of light-weight foaming polylactic acid as a lung-equivalent material in 3D printed phantoms.Physical and engineering sciences in medicine · 2023Article
- On the Creation and Optical Microstructure Characterisation of Additively Manufactured Foam Structures (AMF).Polymers · 2023Article
- A comprehensive review on fused deposition modelling of polylactic acid.Progress in additive manufacturing · 2022Review
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Abstract
This paper shows how fused decomposition modeling (FDM), as a three-dimensional (3D) printing technology, can engineer lightweight porous foams with controllable density. The tactic is based on the 3D printing of Poly Lactic Acid filaments with a chemical blowing agent, as well as experiments to explore how FDM parameters can control material density. Foam porosity is investigated in terms of fabrication parameters such as printing temperature and flow rate, which affect the size of bubbles produced during the layer-by-layer fabrication process. It is experimentally shown that printing temperature and flow rate have significant effects on the bubbles' size, micro-scale material connections, stiffness and strength. An analytical equation is introduced to accurately simulate the experimental results on flow rate, density, and mechanical properties in terms of printing temperature. Due to the absence of a similar concept, mathematical model and results in the specialized literature, this paper is likely to advance the state-of-the-art lightweight foams with controllable porosity and density fabricated by FDM 3D printing technology.
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