Effect of Input Parameters on Strength-to-Weight Ratio in Fused Deposition Modeling for ABS P430 Material

Abstract

The aerospace industry is an industry that is the fastest adopter of inventions and investigations. Higher strength at the lower weight of each component in aircraft is the main aspect of its design. 3D polymer-based printers have become easily accessible to the public. Usually, the technology used by these 3D printers is fused deposition modeling (FDM). Most of these 3D printers mainly use acrylonitrile butadiene styrene (ABS) and polylactic acid (PLA) to fabricate 3D objects. Acrylonitrile butadiene styrene (ABS) is a common material used for 3D printing in fused deposition modeling (FDM). For the printed parts to be useful for specific applications, the mechanical properties of the printed parts must be known. The study aims to determine the strength-to-weight ratio by changing the input parameters such as layer thickness, speed of deposition and infill percentage which are some of the prominent parameters considered as input parameters. The Taguchi method is used to determine the design of the experimentation. This study was used to optimize the parameter for further improving the performance of the fused deposition modeling (FDM) process.