Abstract
The photopolymerization process is a high-precision and efficient technology to obtain solid polymers starting from a photosensible liquid resin made of monomer units. This technology is widely used in Additive Manufacturing (AM) to produce objects whose size can fall within the range 10−5−100 m. The outstanding potentialities of this technology can be harnessed to tailor the structure of a polymeric material by controlling how the light-induced polymerization process is performed, typically by operating on subsequent layers forming the final object. The present research illustrates the chemical-physics phenomena involved in the photopolymerization and presents a multi-physics framework and the related governing equations. Its implementation within a computational framework is developed and several simulations demonstrating the influence of the AM printing setup on the final microstructure of the obtained polymer are presented. It is shown that photopolymerization-based AM technology allows us to finely tune the mechanical properties distribution within the material domain, enabling the material's architecture to be tailored to the application of interest.
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