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ArticleMaterials (Basel, Switzerland)2022

Parametric Effects of Fused Filament Fabrication Approach on Surface Roughness of Acrylonitrile Butadiene Styrene and Nylon-6 Polymer.

Ray Tahir Mushtaq, Asif Iqbal, Yanen Wang, Quentin Cheok, Saqlain Abbas

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Article in Materials (Basel, Switzerland), 2022. The graph could read no effect estimate from its abstract, so it casts no vote on the map. Cited by 6 papers.

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Ray Tahir MushtaqDepartment of Industry Engineering, School of Mechanical Engineering, Northwestern Polytechnical University, Xi'an 710072, China.ORCID 0000-0002-1233-4986
Asif IqbalFaculty of Integrated Technologies, Universiti Brunei Darussalam, Jalan Tungku Link, Gadong BE1410, Brunei.ORCID 0000-0002-4372-8179
Yanen WangDepartment of Industry Engineering, School of Mechanical Engineering, Northwestern Polytechnical University, Xi'an 710072, China.
Quentin CheokFaculty of Integrated Technologies, Universiti Brunei Darussalam, Jalan Tungku Link, Gadong BE1410, Brunei.ORCID 0000-0002-8513-5064
Saqlain AbbasDepartment of Mechanical Engineering, University of Engineering and Technology, Lahore, Narowal Campus, Narowal 51600, Pakistan.ORCID 0000-0001-7071-8235

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6 · The paper itself

Abstract

This research objective is to optimize the surface roughness of Nylon-6 (PA-6) and Acrylonitrile Butadiene Styrene (ABS) by analyzing the parametric effects of the Fused Filament Fabrication (FFF) technique of Three-Dimensional Printing (3DP) parameters. This article discusses how to optimize the surface roughness using Taguchi analysis by the S/N ratio, ANOVA, and modeling methods. The effects of ABS parameters (initial line thickness, raster width, bed temperature, build pattern, extrusion temperature, print speed, and layer thickness) and PA-6 parameters (layer thickness, print speed, extrusion temperature, and build pattern) were investigated with the average surface roughness (Ra) and root-mean-square average surface roughness (Rq) as response parameters. Validation tests revealed that Ra and Rq decreased significantly. After the optimization, the Ra-ABS and Rq-PA-6 for the fabricated optimized values were 1.75 µm and 21.37 µm, respectively. Taguchi optimization of Ra-ABS, Rq-ABS, Ra-PA-6, and Rq-PA-6 was performed to make one step forward to use them in further research and prototypes.

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additive manufacturingANOVAfused filament fabricationpolymersurface roughnessTaguchi

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PMID35955141
PMCPMC9370062

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