A Particle Element Approach for Modelling the 3D Printing Process of Fibre Reinforced Polymer Composites

Dongmin Yang; Ke Wu; Lei Wan; Yong Sheng

doi:10.3390/jmmp1010010

A Particle Element Approach for Modelling the 3D Printing Process of Fibre Reinforced Polymer Composites

Dongmin Yang, Ke Wu, Lei Wan, Yong Sheng

School of Engineering

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This paper presents a new numerical approach for modelling the 3D printing process of fibre reinforced polymer composites by fused deposition modelling (FDM). The approach is based on the coupling between two particle methods, namely smoothed particle hydrodynamics (SPH) and discrete element method (DEM). The coupled SPH-DEM model has distinctive advantages in dealing with the free surface flow, large deformation of fibres, and/or fibre-fibre interaction that are involved in the FDM process. A numerical feasibility study is carried out to demonstrate its capability for both short and continuous fibre reinforced polymer composites, with promising results achieved for the rheological flow and fibre orientation and deformation.

Original language	English
Pages (from-to)	10
Journal	Journal of Manufacturing and Materials Processing
Volume	1
Issue number	1
Early online date	8 Sep 2017
DOIs	https://doi.org/10.3390/jmmp1010010
Publication status	E-pub ahead of print - 8 Sep 2017

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