Technologies in additive manufacturing for fiber reinforced composite materials: a review

Publication date: June 2020Source: Current Opinion in Chemical Engineering, Volume 28Author(s): Palanikumar K., Mudhukrishnan M., Soorya Prabha P.The increase in demand and high product diversification range with reduced unit quantities leads to the innovation of flexible and digitized production. The emerging concept, like Additive Manufacturing (AM), is extensively used to make a prototype with insufficient mechanical strength. For addressing this problem, advancement in the production of Fiber Reinforced Plastic (FRP) composites is introduced in AM. At present, the significant challenges are there in this area in exact fiber placement, sizing of fiber, and their reality into engineering problems through effective control of the process parameters. The growing demand for the prototype and tailored properties of FRP components leads to new inventions intending to acquire short production cycle time and low cost in the manufacturing process. This paper presents the recent advances in the Additive Manufacturing of FRP composite materials using Vat Photopolymerization and Material Extrusion techniques.

Source: Current Opinion in Chemical Engineering - February 21, 2020 Category: Chemistry Source Type: research