Automatic Casting of Advanced Technical Ceramic Parts via Open Source High Resolution 3D Printing Machines

Abstract:

The development of open source 3D printers and the continuously growing utilization of ceramic compounds in the field of medicine among others, meet in the possibility to adapt these machines in a way to permit better controlling, high resolution, automatic, printing of scaffolds, spacers and other 3D parts not possible without this kind of machines and technology. Due to the large number of applications inside the field of medicine it is required a high capacity to create structures that can reach the needs in each case. Furthermore, the possibility to modify easily and quickly these structures as the tests are being done is also very interesting for investigation. These machines allow, thanks to its open source nature, these features and more as they are not closed to changes in order to meet the needs of its users. Therefore, the focus of the present work has been to materialize and improve a head extruder for Advanced Technical Ceramics Compounds. The tests undertaken and the results outcome demonstrate the feasibility of the technology for being applied in such mentioned cases as well as the improvement on the solutions (initial and improvements) for producing automatic casting.

• Periodical: Key Engineering Materials (Volume 631)
• Pages: 269-274
• DOI: https://doi.org/10.4028/www.scientific.net/KEM.631.269
• Online since: November 2014
• Authors: J. Minguella*, M. Villegas, B. Poll, G. Tena, J.A. Calero, Maria-Pau Ginebra, Feza Korkusuz
• Keywords: Additive Manufacturing (AM), Biomedical Applications, Prototype, Subjection, Technical Ceramics

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