The objective of this study was to investigate the elastic and plastic responses of 3D-printed thermoplastic elastomer (TPE) beams under various bending loads. The study also aimed to develop a self-healing mechanism using ...

Fused deposition modelling (FDM), as the most widely used additive manufacturing (AM) process, has great potential for various applications. The structures manufactured with the FDM technique has the potential to be used ...

Previous studies have shown that composite materials can replace metals as the material of construction in shafts. Composite material shafts are normally made up of polymer matrix composites as they are easy to design and ...

A technique based on empirical data and finite element (FE) analysis to predict the fracture life of Al-1050 beams with the help of its fundamental mode is presented in this study. Experiments were performed on a non-prismatic ...

With the evolution of additive manufacturing, there is an increasing demand to produce high strength and stiffness polymers. Photopolymers are very commonly used in stereolithography and fused deposition modeling processes, ...

This study presents the compression response of additively manufactured novel soft porous structures with architected microstructure. Six porous additively manufactured architected periodic structures with two‐fold and ...

An accurate yet easy to use methodology for determining the effective mechanical properties of woven fabric reinforced composites is presented. The approach involves generating a representative unit cell geometry based on ...

Amphiphobic surfaces are obtained by lowering the surface energy through changes in surface geometry. These changes can be designed on the surface, thereby altering its wettability, and in turn rendering it amphiphobic. ...

Surface wettability is a measure of adhesion and repulsion of liquids on a material’s surface, where surface wettability may be altered by creating a new interfacial surface between the base material and the target liquid ...

For machine components like gears and bearings, working life calculation is one of the complex issues to deal with. This is because the mechanics of their operation is dependent on many parameters, like loading, friction ...