Researchers from Australia and Germany are coming together to delve further into one of the most popular topics surrounding 3D printing today: material science. And polymers are often at the top of the list as one of the most used materials in digital fabrication.

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Here, the researchers outline their findings in the recently published ‘ Fracture Resistance Analysis of 3D-Printed Polymers .’ While the benefits of 3D printing are extensive today, and widely expounded upon, so are the continually emerging challenges as researchers, manufacturers, and a world full of users on every level press the limits, according to their project needs or innovative ambitions. Pointing out that FDM 3D printing, SLA, and multi-jet fusion (MJF) are extremely popular, the authors reiterate that these mainstream methods of 3D printing ‘bring quite a number of uncertainties’ with them, and especially in mechanical engineering concepts. Issues and defects are usually related to […]

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