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ArticlePolymers2022

The Role of Roller Rotation Pattern in the Spreading Process of Polymer/Short-Fiber Composite Powder in Selective Laser Sintering.

Tan Cheng, Hui Chen, Qingsong Wei

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Article in Polymers, 2022. The graph could read no effect estimate from its abstract, so it casts no vote on the map. Cited by 4 papers.

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3 authors.

Tan ChengState Key Lab of Materials Forming and Die & Mould Technology, School of Materials Science and Engineering, Huazhong University of Science and Technology, Wuhan 430074, China.
Hui ChenDepartment of Mechanical Engineering, National University of Singapore, Singapore 117575, Singapore.ORCID 0000-0002-7622-8867
Qingsong WeiState Key Lab of Materials Forming and Die & Mould Technology, School of Materials Science and Engineering, Huazhong University of Science and Technology, Wuhan 430074, China.

Funding

Hubei Key Research and Development Program 2020BAB049National Key Research and Development Project of China 2018YFB1105301Wuhan Science and Technology Project 2020010602012037
6 · The paper itself

Abstract

In this study, for the first time, a forward-rotating roller is proposed for the spreading of CF/PA12 composite powder in the selective laser sintering (SLS) process. The mesoscopic kinetic mechanism of composite particle spreading is investigated by utilizing the "multi-spherical" element within the discrete element method (DEM). The commercial software EDEM and the open-source DEM particle simulation code LIGGGHTS-PUBLIC are used for the simulations in this work. It is found that the forward-rotating roller produces a strong compaction on the powder pile than does the conventional counter-rotating roller, thus increasing the coordination number and mass flow rate of the particle flow, which significantly improves the powder bed quality. In addition, the forward-rotating pattern generates a braking friction force on the particles in the opposite direction to their spread, which affects the particle dynamics and deposition process. Therefore, appropriately increasing the roller rotation speed to make this force comparable to the roller dragging force could result in faster deposition of the composite particles to form a stable powder bed. This mechanism allows the forward-rotating roller to maintain a good powder bed quality, even at a high spreading speed, thus providing greater potential for the industry to improve the spreading efficiency of the SLS process.

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discrete element methodpacking qualitypowder spreadingroller rotation patternselective laser sinteringshort fiber

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PMID35745919
PMCPMC9227338

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