Additive Manufacturing, also known as 3D printing, fabricates objects in a layer-by-layer
manner. In recent years, extensive efforts have been made to evolve 3D printing …

Polylactic acid (PLA) is one of the most frequently used materials in Additive Manufacturing
(AM) because it is considered as a nontoxic, biodegradable, and biocompatible material. In …

This paper presents the findings on the application of a vacuum on an open-source material
extrusion system to investigate the effect on the compressive strength and microstructure on …

We contribute a technical solution to reduce print time and material with unmodified fused
deposition modelling printers. The approach uses ad hoc objects inserted by a user during …

Support structure plays an important role on sustaining overhang areas, resistingshape
deformation and reducing thermal stress in many additive manufacturing (AM) processes …

Nowadays product designers have possibilities to design complex geometries, since for
instance with additive manufacturing, there is less technological limits then before. However …

This study evaluated the manufacturing of metal–polymer hybrid parts using a 3-axis
desktop Fused Filament Fabrication (FFF) printer. Two printing strategies were employed: a …