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Fall 2017

Aznarte Garcia, Elisa

This thesis presents an investigation on material-process interaction of vat-photopolymerization processes. The effect of different printing factors on tensile properties is studied. Two vat-photopolymerization processes are considered: Digital Light Processing (DLP) and Stereolithography (SLA)....

Fall 2024

Zaiemyekeh, Zahra

Design and development of better-performing ceramic structures are vital in industry-driven applications where a wide range of strain rates and stress states are induced in the material (e.g., impact events). Accordingly, this thesis investigates the strain-rate and stress-state-dependent...

Spring 2019

Khondoker, Mohammad Abu Hasan

Functional sensors often consist of rigid parts, soft rubber-like parts, and mechanically tunable electronic components. As part of a larger project to 3D print tunable antennas, it was tasked to develop a printer that could directly produce 3D stretchable electronics with soft and hard...

Spring 2020

Baca Lopez, David

Fused deposition modelling has become one of the most prominent additive manufacturing processes for the fabrication of thermoplastic polymers. It is generally used for rapid prototyping and industrial batch production, and due to its capabilities to fabricate a wide range of materials, FDM is...

Spring 2022

Bhardwaj, Nancy

This thesis focuses on the manufacturing of high carbide content wear-resistant parts by extrusion- based Additive Manufacturing (AM) based on the principles of Powder Metallurgy (PM). A new manufacturing technique, termed Fused Filament Fabrication of Cermets (FFFC) is presented. First, particle...

Spring 2022

Li,Xiuhui

This thesis reports fabrication, mechanical characterization, finite element modeling, and geometric analysis of lattice structures. A net-shaped 316L stainless steel lattice structure composed of diamond unit cells was fabricated by selective laser melting (SLM). The cavities in the lattice...

Spring 2023

Boyala, Gowtham

This thesis proposes a novel method to 3D print human hair-based polymer composites. Human hair is a biological fiber whose microstructure is well-defined. It possesses high tensile strength, thermal insulation, a unique chemical composition, and elastic recovery, among other qualities. However,...

Spring 2018

Gomez, Juan S

This research work is focused on the characterization of the mechanical properties of 3D printed sandstone analogues produced using silica sand and binder jetting additive manufacturing technology. With control of grain size, grain size distribution, grain angularity, density distribution,...

Fall 2023

Rose, Dylan

The objective of this thesis is to examine how the composition and solidification rate influences the thermal degradation of WC and the resulting microstructure of WC-Ni metal matrix composites (MMCs) deposited using plasma transferred arc additive manufacturing (PTA-AM). Scanning electron...

Fall 2018

Caputo, Joseph V.

The non-degradable polymers currently used for commercial production and application may be inexpensive; however, their excessive use is leading to unprecedented amounts of plastic waste and extensive environmental damage. The demand for biologically-derived, biodegradable polymers is therefore...