The Nozzle Structure Design and Analysis for Continuous Carbon Fiber Composite 3D Printing

DOI

10.2991/icadme-17.2017.38How to use a DOI?

Keywords

Continuous carbon fiber composite, 3D printing, Nozzle structure, Thermodynamic simulation

Abstract

The 3D printing technology for continuous carbon fiber composite can combine the advantages of high mechanical properties and unlimited model structure complexity to complete the rapid prototyping. Because of the continuity characters of the carbon fiber composite, if the nozzle temperature is too high, the nozzle will be blocked due to material excessive softening. But if the temperature is low, it can't pile up in sequential layers. For this problem, the 3D printing nozzle structure was designed and optimized by the thermodynamic simulation, also, the relations between the nozzle structure and temperature field distribution was revealed. The rationality of nozzle design is proved by continuous carbon fiber 3D printing experiment.

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© 2017, the Authors. Published by Atlantis Press.

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This is an open access article distributed under the CC BY-NC license (http://creativecommons.org/licenses/by-nc/4.0/).

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TY  - CONF
AU  - Fan Zhang
AU  - Guofeng Ma
AU  - Yuegang Tan
PY  - 2017/07
DA  - 2017/07
TI  - The Nozzle Structure Design and Analysis for Continuous Carbon Fiber Composite 3D Printing
BT  - Proceedings of the 2017 7th International Conference on Advanced Design and Manufacturing Engineering (ICADME 2017)
PB  - Atlantis Press
SP  - 193
EP  - 199
SN  - 2352-5401
UR  - https://doi.org/10.2991/icadme-17.2017.38
DO  - 10.2991/icadme-17.2017.38
ID  - Zhang2017/07
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