Fused Filament Fabrication of Small Ceramic Components

Fused Filament Fabrication of Small Ceramic Components

With respect to rapid prototyping of ceramic components, there are known only a few processes (stereo lithography, binder jetting). In this work, a new process chain is described in detail, showing that ceramics can be printed in a very cost-efficient way. We developed a ceramic–polymer co...

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Main Authors: Dorit Nötzel, Ralf Eickhoff, Thomas Hanemann
Format: Article
Language:English
Published: MDPI AG 2018-08-01
Series:Materials
Subjects:
3D printing
FFF
FDM
polymer-ceramic composite
ceramic printing
rapid prototyping
Online Access:http://www.mdpi.com/1996-1944/11/8/1463
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spelling doaj-b4ab446961834c108a37fd786a1eda932020-11-24T23:39:29ZengMDPI AGMaterials1996-19442018-08-01118146310.3390/ma11081463ma11081463Fused Filament Fabrication of Small Ceramic ComponentsDorit Nötzel0Ralf Eickhoff1Thomas Hanemann2Karlsruhe Institute of Technology, Institute for Applied Materials, 736344 Eggenstein-Leopoldshafen, GermanyKarlsruhe Institute of Technology, Institute for Applied Materials, 736344 Eggenstein-Leopoldshafen, GermanyKarlsruhe Institute of Technology, Institute for Applied Materials, 736344 Eggenstein-Leopoldshafen, GermanyWith respect to rapid prototyping of ceramic components, there are known only a few processes (stereo lithography, binder jetting). In this work, a new process chain is described in detail, showing that ceramics can be printed in a very cost-efficient way. We developed a ceramic–polymer composite as filament material that can be printed on a low-cost fused filament fabrication (FFF) desktop printer, even with very small nozzle sizes enabling very small geometric feature sizes. The thermal post-processing, with debinding and sintering, is very close to the ceramic injection molding (CIM) process chain.http://www.mdpi.com/1996-1944/11/8/14633D printingFFFFDMpolymer-ceramic compositeceramic printingrapid prototyping
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author Dorit Nötzel
Ralf Eickhoff
Thomas Hanemann
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Ralf Eickhoff
Thomas Hanemann
Fused Filament Fabrication of Small Ceramic Components
Materials
3D printing
FFF
FDM
polymer-ceramic composite
ceramic printing
rapid prototyping
author_facet Dorit Nötzel
Ralf Eickhoff
Thomas Hanemann
author_sort Dorit Nötzel
title Fused Filament Fabrication of Small Ceramic Components
title_short Fused Filament Fabrication of Small Ceramic Components
title_full Fused Filament Fabrication of Small Ceramic Components
title_fullStr Fused Filament Fabrication of Small Ceramic Components
title_full_unstemmed Fused Filament Fabrication of Small Ceramic Components
title_sort fused filament fabrication of small ceramic components
publisher MDPI AG
series Materials
issn 1996-1944
publishDate 2018-08-01
description With respect to rapid prototyping of ceramic components, there are known only a few processes (stereo lithography, binder jetting). In this work, a new process chain is described in detail, showing that ceramics can be printed in a very cost-efficient way. We developed a ceramic–polymer composite as filament material that can be printed on a low-cost fused filament fabrication (FFF) desktop printer, even with very small nozzle sizes enabling very small geometric feature sizes. The thermal post-processing, with debinding and sintering, is very close to the ceramic injection molding (CIM) process chain.
topic 3D printing
FFF
FDM
polymer-ceramic composite
ceramic printing
rapid prototyping
url http://www.mdpi.com/1996-1944/11/8/1463
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