Abstract
Among all Rapid Prototyping (RP) technologies, the Fused Deposition Modelling (FDM) is one of the advantageous technology due to its ease in handling of 3D complex jobs with less material waste and time. Now-a-days, metallization of FDM build parts are deeply necessary to meet challenges in the fabrication of complex electrical discharge machining (EDM) tools, preservation of artefacts, manufacturing of circuit boards etc. Therefore, experiments are conducted adopting design of experiment (DOE) technique to minimize experimental runs and to get maximum data for analysis purpose. Two FDM build parameters i.e. raster angle and air gap and two coating parameters i.e plating time and voltage are selected to investigate their effects on the surface texture of the copper metallized FDM build parts. Analysis of variance (ANOVA) has been performed to check the significance of each process parameters and their interactions. One regression equation is developed relating process parameters with the surface texture of the metallized FDM build parts. Using surface plots, effect of process parameters on the surface texture are studied and analyzed. One metaheuristic, nature inspired firefly algorithm is adopted to get an optimum parameter setting in order to improve the performance characteristic
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