STUDY THE RESPONSE SURFACE OF ABS COMPOSITE OF PROCESS PARAMETERS FABRICATED USING 3D PRINTING TECHNIQUE

Abstract

Rapid prototyping (RP) technologies have been emerged as a fabrication method to obtain engineering components within a short span of time. In this method components weremodeledusing three dimensionalcomputer aided designand fabricated using fused deposition modeling technique, so called as desktop 3 D printer. In this present investigation, ABS + hydrous magnesium silicate compositewas considered as material for fabricating components, andmechanical properties of ABS compositewere evaluated. For the fabrication and test of samples ASTM standardswas followed.Samples were prepared with different layer thicknessand printing speed were prepared. Based on the experimental results, it is suggested that samples with low printing speed, and low layer thickness has resulted maximum tensile and flexural strength. This investigation not only provides a complex dependency of mechanical properties on manufacturing process parameters, but develops a statistical significant influence of printing speed and layer thickness. It is concluded that mechanical properties are greatly influenced by the printing speed and the layer thickness, but printing speed is more influence than the layer thickness.