Polymer recycling in additive manufacturing: An opportunity for the circular economy

V Shanmugam, O Das, RE Neisiany, K Babu… - Materials Circular …, 2020 - Springer
This article is a short review of the circular material economy and recycling in the additive
manufacturing (AM) of polymers. In the recent years, there has been a surge regarding the …

Fused deposition modeling based polymeric materials and their performance: A review

V Shanmugam, MV Pavan, K Babu… - Polymer …, 2021 - Wiley Online Library
Additive manufacturing (AM) has several advantages that will make a revolution in polymeric
material development. In the AM of polymeric materials, filament deposition modeling (FDM) …

[HTML][HTML] Potential of Recycled PLA in 3D Printing: A Review

MR Hasan, IJ Davies, A Pramanik, M John… - … and Service Economics, 2024 - Elsevier
The growing demand for sustainable materials as substitutes for conventional materials has
led to the need for sustainable manufacturing practices that can effectively balance the use …

Towards sustainable additive manufacturing: The need for awareness of particle and vapor releases during polymer recycling, making filament, and fused filament …

AB Stefaniak, LN Bowers, G Cottrell, E Erdem… - Resources …, 2022 - Elsevier
Fused filament fabrication three-dimensional (FFF 3-D) printing is thought to be
environmentally sustainable; however, significant amounts of waste can be generated from …

How to increase sustainability in the Finnish wine supply chain? Insights from a country of origin based greenhouse gas emissions analysis

HJ Ponstein, S Ghinoi, B Steiner - Journal of Cleaner Production, 2019 - Elsevier
As wine supply chains become increasingly globalized, sustainability issues take on ever
greater importance. This is the first study to analyse the environmental sustainability aspect …

Will it print: a manufacturability toolbox for 3D printing

HD Budinoff, S McMains - International Journal on Interactive Design and …, 2021 - Springer
This study presents the development of a novel MATLAB-based virtual prototy** tool
called Will It Print that evaluates part geometry to check for compliance with design-for …

Strategy to improve printability of renewable resource-based engineering plastic tailored for FDM applications

EV Diederichs, MC Picard, BP Chang, M Misra… - ACS …, 2019 - ACS Publications
This work features the first-time use of poly (trimethylene terephthalate)(PTT), a biobased
engineering thermoplastic, for fused deposition modeling (FDM) applications. Additives such …

Influence of process variables on mechanical properties and material weight of acrylic butadiene styrene parts produced by fused filament fabrication

S Dev, R Srivastava - Progress in Additive Manufacturing, 2023 - Springer
Abstract Fused Filament Fabrication (FFF) technology is popularizing in the world market for
prototy** as well as end products of polymeric materials. The mechanical properties and …

[HTML][HTML] Environmental Impact of Fused Filament Fabrication: What Is Known from Life Cycle Assessment?

A Sola, R Rosa, AM Ferrari - Polymers, 2024 - mdpi.com
This systematic review interrogates the literature to understand what is known about the
environmental sustainability of fused filament fabrication, FFF (also known as fused …

[HTML][HTML] Service oriented digital twin for additive manufacturing process

Z Chen, K Surendraarcharyagie, K Granland… - Journal of Manufacturing …, 2024 - Elsevier
Abstract Currently, Industry 4.0 is rapidly develo**, empowered by IoT, cloud computing
and AI. As two crucial components of Industry 4.0, digital twins and additive manufacturing …