Moisture and Humidity Effects on the ABS Used in Fused Deposition Modeling Machine

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The environment seems to have an effect on Acrylonitrile-Butadiene-Styrene (ABS) which consequently causes physical, morphological and thermal stability changes to the polymer. Not only that, these changes may have caused nozzle blockage on the liquefier of the Fused Deposition Modeling (FDM) rapid prototyping machine. Experiments are conducted to support and verify whether ABS does affect the blockage. It has been observed that physical changes may have not caused nozzle clogging.

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