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Thermoplastic Additive Manufacturing For Composites And Molds, Pritesh S. Yeole
Thermoplastic Additive Manufacturing For Composites And Molds, Pritesh S. Yeole
Doctoral Dissertations
Recent inventions in the ability of additive manufacturing (AM) to use carbon fiber (CF) reinforced pellets as a feedstock material to manufacture components has complemented its purpose from prototypes to structural load-bearing parts. In the first part of this research, we investigated the processability, microstructure, and mechanical performance of twin-screw compounded short CF reinforced polyphenylene sulfide (PPS) pellets as a feedstock material for extrusion deposition fabrication-additive manufacturing (EDF-AM) using big area AM (BAAM). The performance of the BAAM components was compared to that of traditional processing methods, namely injection molding (IM) and extrusion-compression molding (ECM). It was found that the …