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Development of a Material Jetting 3D Printer with Magnetic Orientation Capabilities
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- Author / Creator
- Eufracio Aguilera, Alejandro F.
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Additive manufacturing (AM) has come to be considered one of the must
groundbreaking technologies nowadays, revolutionizing the traditional manufacturing
and opening the doors to a new generation of complex freeform
engineered functional part. The AM process shows a high correlation between
material, design, and the manufacturing process. This relationship offers the
possibility to tailor and engineer localized material properties within one part.
Currently a number of AM processes are available to deliver tailored mechanical
properties through multi-material printing. In this work a novel integrated
material-manufacturing-control system to print parts with functional
Ferro-magnetic properties is presented. The proposed AM system, based on
material jetting, photo polymerization, real time control system, and active
magnetic alignment control allows the manipulation of the local orientation of
a specialized photosensitive magnetically responsive resin to fabricate objects
with locally controlled anisotropic particles arrangement. The proposed system
builds upon the standard slicing and path planning algorithms used by
open source 3D printing software and extends it by adding two extra dimensions
related to the orientation of the magnetic particles within the printing
process itself enabling the real-time control of the particles orientation of the
printed parts. -
- Graduation date
- Fall 2018
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- Type of Item
- Thesis
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- Degree
- Master of Science
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- License
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