My graduate student Alex Cress will be presenting his research on stochastic fracture of fused deposition modeled (3D printed) ABS in Materials Science & Technology 2016, Salt Lake City, UT. Here are the details of the conference: Effect of Build Parameters on the Variation in Mechanical Properties of Fused Deposition Modeled ABS: Alex Cress1; Ozgur […]

We investigated the effects of build orientation on the mechanical reliability of 3D printed ABS using a Stratasys uPrint SE. Thanks to my undergraduate researcher Caleb W. Blevins (second author), we were able to generate 262 specimens and test their mechanical behavior. The most important finding is that the reliability of FDM produced ABS can […]

We investigated the effect of porosity and crack size distributions on the fracture behavior of porous glass through a combined finite element and fracture mechanics method. Simulations showed that the effect of crack size distributions on the change in fracture strength with porosity decreases as the pore size to crack size ratio increases. For a […]