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  • 3D printing for ceramic based PLA composites: Development, security, potential and challenges

  • G. Moulikaa,* and P. Ponnusamyb

  • aResearch Scholar, School of Mechanical Engineering, Vellore Institute of Technology, Vellore, Tamilnadu, India
    bProfessor, School of Mechanical Engineering, Vellore Institute of Technology, Vellore, Tamilnadu, India

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Abstract

3D printing is a new technology for additive manufacturing to balance the demands of the customers and the industrial requirements. The 3D printing technology is facilitated by the used of fused deposition modeling technique in this paper. Ceramic based PLA composite specimens are developed and the process parameters are analysed. The security of the data transferred in the 3D printing paradigm through cloud computing techniques is also discussed in this work. The ceramic based PLA composite parts provide increased mechanical properties such as tensile strength and flexural strength. In this work L27 orthogonal array is used to conduct the experiments and the parameters are optimized. The regression coefficients, analysis of variance and the residual plots for the tensile strength and flexural strength are investigated and analysed. It is observed that the layer thickness is the most influencing parameter in the fused deposition modeling process


Keywords: Fused deposition modeling, 3D printing, Security, Taguchi, Ceramic based PLA composite

This Article

  • 2022; 23(3): 391-396

    Published on Jun 30, 2022

  • 10.36410/jcpr.2022.23.3.391
  • Received on Jan 25, 2022
  • Revised on Mar 6, 2022
  • Accepted on Mar 10, 2022

Correspondence to

  • G. Moulika

  • Research Scholar, School of Mechanical Engineering, Vellore Institute of Technology, Vellore, Tamilnadu, India
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  • E-mail: kkdmoulikagrandhi@gmail.com