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Laser Powder Bed Fusion of Polymers: Quantitative Research Direction Indices
Research on Laser Powder Bed Fusion (L-PBF) of polymer powder feedstocks has raised over the last decade due to the increased utilization of the fabricated parts in aerospace, automotive, electronics, and healthcare applications. A total of 600 Science Citation Indexed articles were published on the...
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Acceso en línea: | https://www.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/pmc/articles/PMC7958861/ https://www.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/pubmed/33801512 http://dx.doi.org/10.3390/ma14051169 |
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author | Kusoglu, Ihsan Murat Doñate-Buendía, Carlos Barcikowski, Stephan Gökce, Bilal |
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description | Research on Laser Powder Bed Fusion (L-PBF) of polymer powder feedstocks has raised over the last decade due to the increased utilization of the fabricated parts in aerospace, automotive, electronics, and healthcare applications. A total of 600 Science Citation Indexed articles were published on the topic of L-PBF of polymer powder feedstocks in the last decade, being cited more than 10,000 times leading to an h-index of 46. This study statistically evaluates the 100 most cited articles to extract reported material, process, and as-built part properties to analyze the research trends. PA12, PEEK, and TPU are the most employed polymer powder feedstocks, while size, flowability, and thermal behavior are the standardly reported material properties. Likewise, process properties such as laser power, scanning speed, hatch spacing, powder layer thickness, volumetric energy density, and areal energy density are extracted and evaluated. In addition, material and process properties of the as-built parts such as tensile test, flexural test, and volumetric porosity contents are analyzed. The incorporation of additives is found to be an effective route to enhance mechanical and functional properties. Carbon-based additives are typically employed in applications where mechanical properties are essential. Carbon fibers, Ca-phosphates, and SiO(2) are the most reported additives in the evaluated SCI-expanded articles for L-PBF of polymer powder feedstocks. A comprehensive data matrix is extracted from the evaluated SCI-index publications, and a principal component analysis (PCA) is performed to explore correlations between reported material, process, and as-built parts. |
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spelling | pubmed-79588612021-03-16 Laser Powder Bed Fusion of Polymers: Quantitative Research Direction Indices Kusoglu, Ihsan Murat Doñate-Buendía, Carlos Barcikowski, Stephan Gökce, Bilal Materials (Basel) Review Research on Laser Powder Bed Fusion (L-PBF) of polymer powder feedstocks has raised over the last decade due to the increased utilization of the fabricated parts in aerospace, automotive, electronics, and healthcare applications. A total of 600 Science Citation Indexed articles were published on the topic of L-PBF of polymer powder feedstocks in the last decade, being cited more than 10,000 times leading to an h-index of 46. This study statistically evaluates the 100 most cited articles to extract reported material, process, and as-built part properties to analyze the research trends. PA12, PEEK, and TPU are the most employed polymer powder feedstocks, while size, flowability, and thermal behavior are the standardly reported material properties. Likewise, process properties such as laser power, scanning speed, hatch spacing, powder layer thickness, volumetric energy density, and areal energy density are extracted and evaluated. In addition, material and process properties of the as-built parts such as tensile test, flexural test, and volumetric porosity contents are analyzed. The incorporation of additives is found to be an effective route to enhance mechanical and functional properties. Carbon-based additives are typically employed in applications where mechanical properties are essential. Carbon fibers, Ca-phosphates, and SiO(2) are the most reported additives in the evaluated SCI-expanded articles for L-PBF of polymer powder feedstocks. A comprehensive data matrix is extracted from the evaluated SCI-index publications, and a principal component analysis (PCA) is performed to explore correlations between reported material, process, and as-built parts. MDPI 2021-03-02 /pmc/articles/PMC7958861/ /pubmed/33801512 http://dx.doi.org/10.3390/ma14051169 Text en © 2021 by the authors. Licensee MDPI, Basel, Switzerland. This article is an open access article distributed under the terms and conditions of the Creative Commons Attribution (CC BY) license (http://creativecommons.org/licenses/by/4.0/). |
spellingShingle | Review Kusoglu, Ihsan Murat Doñate-Buendía, Carlos Barcikowski, Stephan Gökce, Bilal Laser Powder Bed Fusion of Polymers: Quantitative Research Direction Indices |
title | Laser Powder Bed Fusion of Polymers: Quantitative Research Direction Indices |
title_full | Laser Powder Bed Fusion of Polymers: Quantitative Research Direction Indices |
title_fullStr | Laser Powder Bed Fusion of Polymers: Quantitative Research Direction Indices |
title_full_unstemmed | Laser Powder Bed Fusion of Polymers: Quantitative Research Direction Indices |
title_short | Laser Powder Bed Fusion of Polymers: Quantitative Research Direction Indices |
title_sort | laser powder bed fusion of polymers: quantitative research direction indices |
topic | Review |
url | https://www.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/pmc/articles/PMC7958861/ https://www.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/pubmed/33801512 http://dx.doi.org/10.3390/ma14051169 |
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