CPVT
Carbon Fiber 3D Printing at Virginia Tech
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Additive manufacturing is a rapidly growing technology which is capable of producing arbitrary products with customized 3D shapes. As the technology of additive manufacturing grows, more and more materials can be used to print stronger, lighter and more durable parts.
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About
Carbon Printing at VT is a 3D printer design team lead by Dr. Zheng. Our team is designing a carbon fiber resin jetting printer that can print objects with high volumetric percentage of carbon fiber powder with high energy absorption, a smooth surface, and without forming cracks between layers. Our team generated five concepts for the first two months, then downselected to two concepts. Elongation, sample tensile strength, resolution, and sample density were the most important technical specifications that were used for choosing our concept. Our team’s future plan includes finalizing 100% detail parts, purchasing parts and testing samples with different ratio of thermal resins to figure out the optimal setup. After finishing building a binder jetting printer, our team would be able to print carbon fibers as well as any material that can be formed as powder.
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