Investigation the Effect of 3d Printer System Vibrations on Surface Roughness of the Printed Products

Authors : Menderes KAM, Hamit SARUHAN, Ahmet İPEKÇİ

Pages : 147-157

Doi:10.29130/dubited.441221

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Publication Date : 2019-03-30

Article Type : Research Paper

Abstract :Additive Manufacturing (AM), widely known as three-dimensional (3D) printing, is the process that a product is  fabricated layer by layer in Cartesian coordinate system. Fused Deposition Modelling (FDM) is the most used AM  process for functional rapid prototyping and products reduces the time and material involved in manufacturing. The  purpose of this study is to investigate the effects of 3D printer system vibrations on the surface roughness of  fabricated products. Polyethyletherphthalate Glycol (PET-G) is used as material for fabrication. Six different filling  structures - Rectilinear, Grid, Triangular, Wiggle, Fast Honeycomb, and Full Honeycomb - were used and for each  structure two different top - two and three - layers implemented. A total of 12 samples specimens were fabricated.  The results showed that using Full Honeycomb filling structure with three top layers is more suitable for surface  roughness compare to the others filling structure used. It can be concluded that the vibration of 3D printer system  considering type of filling structure and number of top layers have a significant effect on surface quality of product.
Keywords : 3D Printer, Vibration, Surface Roughness, PET G