| Issue |
MATEC Web Conf.
Volume 388, 2023
2023 RAPDASA-RobMech-PRASA-AMI Conference Advanced Manufacturing Beyond Borders - The 24th Annual International RAPDASA Conference joined by RobMech, PRASA and AMI, hosted by CSIR and CUT
|
|
|---|---|---|
| Article Number | 06003 | |
| Number of page(s) | 9 | |
| Section | Process Development | |
| DOI | https://doi.org/10.1051/matecconf/202338806003 | |
| Published online | 15 December 2023 | |
An evaluation of the suitability of a new polypropylene powder for powder bed fusion additive manufacturing
1 Photonics Centre, Council for Scientific and Industrial Research, PO Box 395, Pretoria 0001, South Africa
2 Centre for Rapid Prototyping Manufacturing, Central University of Technology, Bloemfontein, South Africa
* Corresponding author: lwu@csir.co.za
The intrinsic and extrinsic properties of a commercial polypropylene (PP) powder (BASF Ultrasint PP 1400) for use in powder bed fusion-based additive manufacturing were characterised and preliminary test parts were printed on an EOS P380 machine. The test specimens demonstrated relatively good dimensional accuracy (<3.6% part deviation), higher than normal elongation at break (127%), and moderate ultimate tensile strength (UTS) of 21.4 MPa.
© The Authors, published by EDP Sciences, 2023
This is an Open Access article distributed under the terms of the Creative Commons Attribution License 4.0, which permits unrestricted use, distribution, and reproduction in any medium, provided the original work is properly cited.
Current usage metrics show cumulative count of Article Views (full-text article views including HTML views, PDF and ePub downloads, according to the available data) and Abstracts Views on Vision4Press platform.
Data correspond to usage on the plateform after 2015. The current usage metrics is available 48-96 hours after online publication and is updated daily on week days.
Initial download of the metrics may take a while.