Morphology and mechanical properties of poly (acrylonitrile‐butadiene‐styrene)/multi‐walled carbon nanotubes nanocomposite specimens prepared by fused deposition modeling

2020 ◽  
Author(s):  
Mohammad Razavi‐Nouri ◽  
Amir Masood Rezadoust ◽  
Zahra Soheilpour ◽  
Keyvan Garoosi ◽  
Seyed Reza Ghaffarian
Author(s):  
Shajahan Bin Maidin ◽  
Zulkeflee Abdullah ◽  
Ting Kung Hieng

One of the disadvantages of fused deposition modeling (FDM) is waste produced during the printing processes. This investigation focuses on using 100% recycled Acrylonitrile Butadiene Styrene (ABS) for the FDM process. The recycling begins with re-granule the waste ABS material and produces it into a new filament. The new recycled filament was used to print the test specimen. Investigation on the mechanical properties and the surface quality of the test specimen and comparison with standard ABS specimen was done. The result shows that the recycled ABS can be produced into filament with 335°C of extrusion temperature and 1.5 mm/s travel speed of the extruder conveyor. The surface roughness of recycled specimen is 6.94% higher than the standard ABS specimen. For ultimate tensile strength, there is a small difference in X and Y orientation between the standard and the recycled ABS specimen which are 22.93% and 19.98%, respectively. However, in Z orientation, it is 52.33% lower. This investigation proves that ABS can be recycled without significantly affecting its mechanical properties.


Author(s):  
Habibah Mohamed ◽  
Ninik Irawati ◽  
Fauzan Ahmad ◽  
Mohd Haniff Ibrahim ◽  
Sumiaty Ambran ◽  
...  

<p>We demonstrated performance comparison of optical humidity sensor for bare and Multi-walled carbon nanotubes (MWCNTs) slurry coated tapered optical fiber. The starting material for MWCNTs slurry is MWCNTs- acrylonitrile butadiene styrene (ABS) based fused deposition modeling (FDM) 3D printer filament. The ABS was dissolved using acetone to produce MWCNTs-acetone suspension. The MWCNTs-acetone suspension was drop-casted on the tapered fiber to produce MWCNTs slurry by evaporation process at room temperature, which resulted the MWCNTs slurry attach to the tapered fiber. The MWCNTs slurry acts as the cladding for humidity changes measurement. The experimental works showed improvement of sensitivity from 3.811 μW/% of bare tapered fiber to 5.17 μW/% for the coated tapered fiber with MWCNTs slurry when the humidity varied from 45% to 80%.</p>


2019 ◽  
Vol 64 (2) ◽  
pp. 255-264
Author(s):  
Lucie Zarybnicka ◽  
Karel Dvorak ◽  
Zdenka Dostalova ◽  
Hana Vojackova

3D printing is one of the most progressive additive technologies today. It finds its application also in industry. In terms of mechanical properties, the printing design of the product is an important parameter. The presented study investigates the effects of the printing design of a thin-walled 3D polymer model on the mechanical properties of the model. The material used for printing was acrylonitrile-butadiene-styrene (ABS) and the 3D print method was Fused Deposition Modeling (FDM). ABS was tested at various die temperatures and with various printing designs at a constant 3D print speed and identical print bed temperature. We examined the effect of printing temperature and product printing design on the resulting mechanical properties. We compared theoretical and experimental results by CAE–FEM Advanced Simulation modules. Results tensile deformations at maximum load by experiment and simulations are comparable. The best results of testing the mechanical properties were found in the pattern printed at a 45° angle at temperature 285 °C.


2017 ◽  
Vol 898 ◽  
pp. 2384-2391
Author(s):  
Jin Zhu ◽  
Biao Wang

Multi-walled carbon nanotubes (MWCNTs)/acrylonitrile butadiene styrene (ABS) nanocomposites were prepared by melt blending and then filaments were obtained by melt extrusion method. The Scanning electron microscope (SEM) exhibited good dispersion of MWCNTs in the SAN phase of the ABS matrix. The rheological results showed that incorporation of MWCNTs into ABS resulted in higher storage modulus (G′) and loss modulus (G′′) than those of ABS, especially at low frequencies. The tensile strength and modulus of MWCNT/ABS nanocomposite filaments substantially increased with the MWCNTs content while the elongation at break decreased. Additionally, the addition of MWCNTs decreased the coefficient of linear thermal expansion. This study provides a basis for further development of MWCNT/ABS nanocomposites used for FDM process with desirable mechanical properties and good dimension stability.


2016 ◽  
Vol 11 ◽  
pp. 49-59 ◽  
Author(s):  
Jaret C. Riddick ◽  
Mulugeta A. Haile ◽  
Ray Von Wahlde ◽  
Daniel P. Cole ◽  
Oluwakayode Bamiduro ◽  
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