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Symposium: S17 - Special Symposium: Additive manufacturing (3D printing)
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Coaxial Additive Manufacturing of Continuous Fiber-Reinforced Composites

Koc Bahattin (1)*, Suleman Asif (1), Gizem Gokcer (1)

(1) Sabanci University - Istanbul - Turkey

In this paper, a coaxial extrusion-based additive manufacturing process has been developed for three-dimensional (3D) printing of continuous carbon fiber reinforced thermoplastic composites. A special coaxial nozzle was developed to feed continuous carbon fiber and thermoplastic pellets and extrude layer-by-layer to manufacture three-dimensional (3D) composite parts. To have continuous deposition, a computational algorithm has also been developed to optimize extrusion path planning for continuous fibers with thermoplastic materials with no- or minimum stop. The results from the mechanical tests showed that continuous carbon fiber reinforced composite materials resulted in higher tensile and flexure test values than pure thermoplastic materials.