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Fused Filament Fabrication FFF of Metal-Ceramic Components
Published on: January 11, 2019
Fused Filament Fabrication of Small Ceramic Components
Dorit Nötzel1,2, Ralf Eickhoff3, Thomas Hanemann4,5
1Karlsruhe Institute of Technology, Institute for Applied Materials, 736344 Eggenstein-Leopoldshafen, Germany. dorit.noetzel@kit.edu.
Abstract:
With respect to rapid prototyping of ceramic components, there are known only a few processes (stereo lithography, binder jetting). In this work, a new process chain is described in detail, showing that ceramics can be printed in a very cost-efficient way. We developed a ceramic⁻polymer composite as filament material that can be printed on a low-cost fused filament fabrication (FFF) desktop printer, even with very small nozzle sizes enabling very small geometric feature sizes. The thermal post-processing, with debinding and sintering, is very close to the ceramic injection molding (CIM) process chain.
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