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Experimental, numerical and analytical investigation of the polyamide 12 powder bed fusion with the aim of building dimensionless characteristic numbers

Journal

MATERIALS & DESIGN
Volume 201, Issue -, Pages -

Publisher

ELSEVIER SCI LTD
DOI: 10.1016/j.matdes.2021.109470

Keywords

Simulation; Melting; Polyamide; Additive manufacturing; Powder bed fusion; Dimensionless numbers

Funding

  1. Deutsche Forschungs-Gemeinschaft (DFG, German Research Foundation) within the priority program 2122 Materials for Additive Manufacturing [BI 1859/2-1, 409808524, LA 4328/1-1, SCHM 2115/78-1, 409779181]

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This study investigates the impact of material properties on product quality in powder bed fusion through experiments and numerical simulations, proposing a method to calculate dimensionless energy input. The results show good correlation between experimental data and numerical simulation results.
In powder bed fusion (PBF), a laser based energy source selectively fuses polymer powder particles in a layer-by layer process building up a three-dimensional structure. For powder bed fusion of polymers the knowledge about which material properties are important for the process and the product quality is insufficient. This causes significant difficulties in developing new materials. To address this problem, it is necessary to establish a clear link between the material properties, process parameters and the resulting component quality. This link can be achieved by performing a combination of experimental investigations, numerical simulations and analytical considerations to develop dimensionless characteristic numbers that are able to describe the process. Therefore, this paper presents material properties and monolayer printing experiments for polyamide 12. The experimental results are compared with numerical simulations based on the material and process data. Based on these results, we present a method of how to calculate the dimensionless energy input by combining the surface energy density with material properties and measured thickness of the monolayer samples. Furthermore, when considering the fusion time, numerical simulations show good correlation with an analytical model (c) 2021 The Authors. Published by Elsevier Ltd. This is an open access article under the CC BY-NC-ND license (http:// creativecommons.org/licenses/by-nc-nd/4.0/).

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