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Thermal Expansion of Plastics Used for 3D Printing

The thermal properties of parts obtained by 3D printing from polymeric materials may be interesting in certain practical situations. One of these thermal properties is the ability of a material to expand as the temperature rises or shrink when the temperature drops. A test experiment device was desi...

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Autores principales: Rădulescu, Bruno, Mihalache, Andrei Marius, Hrițuc, Adelina, Rădulescu, Mara, Slătineanu, Laurențiu, Munteanu, Adriana, Dodun, Oana, Nagîț, Gheorghe
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Acceso en línea:https://www.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/pmc/articles/PMC9370745/
https://www.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/pubmed/35956576
http://dx.doi.org/10.3390/polym14153061
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author Rădulescu, Bruno
Mihalache, Andrei Marius
Hrițuc, Adelina
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Slătineanu, Laurențiu
Munteanu, Adriana
Dodun, Oana
Nagîț, Gheorghe
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Mihalache, Andrei Marius
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description The thermal properties of parts obtained by 3D printing from polymeric materials may be interesting in certain practical situations. One of these thermal properties is the ability of a material to expand as the temperature rises or shrink when the temperature drops. A test experiment device was designed based on the thermal expansion or negative thermal expansion of spiral test samples, made by 3D printing of polymeric materials to investigate the behavior of some polymeric materials in terms of thermal expansion or contraction. A spiral test sample was placed on an aluminum alloy plate in a spiral groove. A finite element modeling highlighted the possibility that areas of the plate and the spiral test sample have different temperatures, which means thermal expansions or contractions have different values in the spiral areas. A global experimental evaluation of four spiral test samples was made by 3D printing four distinct polymeric materials: styrene-butadiene acrylonitrile, polyethylene terephthalate, thermoplastic polyurethane, and polylactic acid, has been proposed. The mathematical processing of the experimental results using specialized software led to establishing empirical mathematical models valid for heating the test samples from −9 °C to 13 °C and cooling the test samples in temperature ranges between 70 °C and 30 °C, respectively. It was found that the negative thermal expansion has the highest values in the case of polyethylene terephthalate and the lowest in the case of thermoplastic polyurethane.
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spelling pubmed-93707452022-08-12 Thermal Expansion of Plastics Used for 3D Printing Rădulescu, Bruno Mihalache, Andrei Marius Hrițuc, Adelina Rădulescu, Mara Slătineanu, Laurențiu Munteanu, Adriana Dodun, Oana Nagîț, Gheorghe Polymers (Basel) Article The thermal properties of parts obtained by 3D printing from polymeric materials may be interesting in certain practical situations. One of these thermal properties is the ability of a material to expand as the temperature rises or shrink when the temperature drops. A test experiment device was designed based on the thermal expansion or negative thermal expansion of spiral test samples, made by 3D printing of polymeric materials to investigate the behavior of some polymeric materials in terms of thermal expansion or contraction. A spiral test sample was placed on an aluminum alloy plate in a spiral groove. A finite element modeling highlighted the possibility that areas of the plate and the spiral test sample have different temperatures, which means thermal expansions or contractions have different values in the spiral areas. A global experimental evaluation of four spiral test samples was made by 3D printing four distinct polymeric materials: styrene-butadiene acrylonitrile, polyethylene terephthalate, thermoplastic polyurethane, and polylactic acid, has been proposed. The mathematical processing of the experimental results using specialized software led to establishing empirical mathematical models valid for heating the test samples from −9 °C to 13 °C and cooling the test samples in temperature ranges between 70 °C and 30 °C, respectively. It was found that the negative thermal expansion has the highest values in the case of polyethylene terephthalate and the lowest in the case of thermoplastic polyurethane. MDPI 2022-07-28 /pmc/articles/PMC9370745/ /pubmed/35956576 http://dx.doi.org/10.3390/polym14153061 Text en © 2022 by the authors. https://creativecommons.org/licenses/by/4.0/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 (https://creativecommons.org/licenses/by/4.0/).
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