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Damira Dairabayeva1, Ulanbek Auyeskhan1,2, Didier Talamona1,3
1Institute of Smart Systems and Artificial Intelligence (ISSAI), Nazarbayev University, Astana 020000, Kazakhstan.
Abstract:
Additive manufacturing of composites offers advantages over metals since composites are lightweight, fatigue and corrosion-resistant, and show high strength and stiffness. This work investigates the tensile and flexural performance of continuous carbon-fiber reinforced (CCF) composites with different guide angles and number of layers. The cost and printing time analyses were also conducted. Tensile specimens with a contour-only specimen and one CCF layer with a 0° guide angle exhibited nearly comparable strength values. Increasing the number of CCF layers enhances the tensile properties. For the identical cost and reinforcement amount, 0°/0° provides a higher tensile strength and elastic modulus compared with 15°/-15°. The same phenomenon was observed for 15°/0°/-15° and 0°/0°/0°. The samples with one and two reinforcement layers had similar stiffness and maximum load values for flexural tests. For the samples with four layers, there was a considerable improvement in stiffness but a minor decrease in the maximum load.
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