Syrlybayev Daniyar, Zharylkassyn Beibit, Seisekulova Aidana, Perveen Asma, Talamona Didier
Department of Mechanical and Aerospace Engineering, School of Engineering & Digital Sciences, Nazarbayev University, Nur-Sultan 010000, Kazakhstan.
Polymers (Basel). 2021 Nov 8;13(21):3849. doi: 10.3390/polym13213849.
Fused deposition modeling (FDM) is one of the most affordable and widespread additive manufacturing (AM) technologies. Despite its simplistic implementation, the physics behind this FDM process is very complex and involves rapid heating and cooling of the polymer feedstock. As a result, highly non-uniform internal stresses develop within the part, which can cause warpage deformation. The severity of the warpage is highly dependent on the process parameters involved, and therefore, currently extensive experimental studies are ongoing to assess their influence on the final accuracy of the part. In this study, a thermomechanical Finite Element model of the 3D printing process was developed using ANSYS. This model was compared against experimental results and several other analytical models available in the literature. The developed Finite Element Analysis (FEA) model demonstrated a good qualitative and quantitative correlation with the experimental results. An L9 orthogonal array, from Taguchi Design of Experiments, was used for the optimization of the warpage based on experimental results and numerical simulations. The optimum process parameters were identified for each objective and parts were printed using these process parameters. Both parts showed an approximately equal warpage value of 320 μm, which was the lowest among all 10 runs of the L9 array. Additionally, this model is extended to predict the warpage of FDM printed multi-material parts. The relative percentage error between the numerical and experimental warpage results for alternating and sandwich specimens are found to be 1.4% and 9.5%, respectively.
熔融沉积建模(FDM)是最经济且应用最广泛的增材制造(AM)技术之一。尽管其实现方式简单,但FDM工艺背后的物理原理非常复杂,涉及聚合物原料的快速加热和冷却。结果,部件内部会产生高度不均匀的内应力,这可能导致翘曲变形。翘曲的严重程度高度依赖于所涉及的工艺参数,因此,目前正在进行大量实验研究以评估它们对部件最终精度的影响。在本研究中,使用ANSYS开发了3D打印过程的热机械有限元模型。将该模型与实验结果以及文献中可用的其他几种分析模型进行了比较。所开发的有限元分析(FEA)模型与实验结果显示出良好的定性和定量相关性。基于实验结果和数值模拟,采用田口实验设计中的L9正交阵列对翘曲进行优化。确定了每个目标的最佳工艺参数,并使用这些工艺参数打印部件。两个部件的翘曲值均约为320μm,在L9阵列的所有10次运行中是最低的。此外,该模型被扩展以预测FDM打印的多材料部件的翘曲。交替和夹层试样的数值和实验翘曲结果之间的相对百分比误差分别为1.4%和9.5%。