• 동력기계공학회지
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• 제6권2호
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• pp.54-59
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• 2002

The principle of the FDM(fused deposition modeling) process is based on the layer by layer manufacturing technology, like other RP(rapid prototyping) process. In the FDM process, each layer may have different shape. Therefore, the built model may have stairs shape on its surface. This stairs shape is one of the serious problems in the FDM process. Thus in this study, cube models and spherical models were fabricated by FDM process to investigate the influence of injection amount on surface roughness. Models with various road width were also built to investigate the influence of road width on surface roughness. Surface roughness of the models was measured and analyzed. The result obtained in this study are expected to help selecting the part build orientation for optimum surface roughness.

• Elastomers and Composites
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• 제58권1호
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• pp.44-56
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• 2023

Additive manufacturing (AM) or three-dimensional (3D) printing of metals has been drawing significant attention due to its reliability, usefulness, and low cost with rapid prototyping. Among the various AM technologies, fused deposition modeling (FDM) or fused filament fabrication is receiving much interest because of its simple manufacturing processing, low material waste, and cost-effective equipment. FDM technology uses metal-filled polymer filaments for 3D printing, followed by debinding and sintering to fabricate complex metal parts. An efficient binder is essential for producing polymer filaments and the thermal post-processing of printed objects. This study involved an in-depth investigation of and a fabrication route for a novel multi-component binder system with steel alloy powder (45 vol.%) ranging from filament fabrication and 3D printing to debinding and sintering. The binder system consisted of polyvinyl pyrrolidone (PVP) as a binder and thermoplastic polyurethane (TPU) and polylactic acid (PLA) as a carrier. The PVP binder held the metal components tightly by maintaining their stoichiometry, and the TPU and PLA in the ratio of 9:1 provided flexibility, stiffness, and strength to the filament for 3D printing. The efficacy of the binder system was examined by fabricating 3D-printed cubic structures. The results revealed that the thermal debinding and sintering processes effectively removed the binder/carrier from the cubic structures, resulting in isotropic shrinkage of approximately 15.8% in all directions. The scanning electron microscopy (SEM) and energy dispersive X-ray spectroscopy (EDX) patterns displayed the microstructure behavior, phase transition, and elemental composition of the 3D cubic structure.

• 사물인터넷융복합논문지
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• 제6권3호
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• pp.75-80
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• 2020

최근의 IoT 센서의 소형화와 센서의 소형화로 인하여 다른 센서 및 구조물들과의 간섭 및 견고성을 고려하여 더욱 복잡해 지고 있다. 최근 3D 프린팅 기술은 센서 직접 제작이나, 센서 소자를 포함하는 기구를 만드는 분야에 다양하게 적용이 되고 있다. 그 중에서, fused deposition modeling(FDM) 기술은 장비 및 소재의 가격이 상당히 저렴하며, IoT 기기의 제작이 활용이 가능한 가장 유력한 기술중에 하나이다. 그런 FDM 프린팅 기술은 플라스틱 소재 기반의 필라멘트를 녹여서 적층하여 3D 형상을 만들어 내는 기술이며, 최근에 특허 종료와 아울러 오픈 소스 기반의 저가형 프린터가 개발됨으로 일반인들에게도 널리 사용되고 있다. 이런 FDM 기술을 이용하여 출력된 출력물에 있어서 기계적 물성치는 소재의 종류와 다양한 공정 변수들에 의해서 영향을 받는다. 그 중에서도 내부 채움(infill)은 기계적 물성치에도 큰 영향을 주면, 출력 시간에도 영향을 준다. 따라서 본 논문에서 내부 채움과 기계적 물성치 및 출력 시간 사이의 관계를 규명하여, 기계 기구물을 제작할 때 출력 시간과 기계적 물성치를 고려한 최적의 내부 채움 조건 선정 방법을 제시하고자 한다. 제시된 방법을 증명하고자, 다른 공정은 모두 고정하고, 내부 채움 조건만을 변경한 인장 시편을 제작하고, 제작된 시편을 인장 실험을 통하여 내부 채움에 따른 출력물의 기계적 물성치를 비교 분석하였다.

• 한국정밀공학회:학술대회논문집
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• 한국정밀공학회 2006년도 춘계학술대회 논문집
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• pp.191-192
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• 2006

In these days, various kinds of rapid prototyping processes are available, such as stereo-lithography apparatus(SLA), fused deposition modeling(FDM), selective laser sintering(SLS), 3 dimensional printing(3DP), and laminated object manufacturing(LOM). For detailed informations about mechanical properties of those parts, benchmark tests are carried out. SLS and EOS part has an advantage in compressive strength, SLA has in hardness, FDM part has in impact strength, and LOM part has an advantage in tensile strength and heat resistance. The change of building direction in layered manufacturing processes of FDM and LOM severely weakens the tensile and impact strength.

• 한국CDE학회논문집
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• 제22권2호
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• pp.190-201
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• 2017

This paper proposes how to solve a problem of FDM 3D printer's irregular output when changing volume of extrusion, adjusting movement speed of the printer's head and a way to fill new inner part. Existing slicers adjust directly to change the rotation speed of the stepper. In this method, the change of the extrusion area is delayed due to the gap between the stepper and the nozzle, so that precise control is difficult. We control the extrusion area adjusting the moving speed of the print head and making constantly the rotation speed of the stepper. Thus, the output time can be shortened by generating an efficient path having a short travel distance. For evaluation, we applied our method to lithophanes with detailed variation. Comparing existing methods, our method reduced output time at least 30%.

• 한국정밀공학회:학술대회논문집
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• 한국정밀공학회 2001년도 춘계학술대회 논문집
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• pp.483-486
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• 2001

Rapid Prototyping(RP) has been widely applied in designing and developing processes a new product. The functional requirements of a rapid prototyping system are high speed and high accuracy, and they depend on the operating parameters, some of which can be set by users. The accuracy is evaluated by dimensional errors and form errors of manufactured pars. A specially designed specimen with various features has been used for the accuracy evaluation. According to the Taguchi experimental design techniques, and orthogonal array of experiments has been set which has the least number of experimental runs to find the parametric effects. A laser scanner is used to obtain the point data of the parts and Surfacer is used to determine the lengths and angles. The conditions for the FDM manufacturing parametrs have been found.

• 한국공작기계학회논문집
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• 제10권5호
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• pp.104-109
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• 2001

Nowadays, Industrial competition power is depended on that rapidly produce the customized products. Therefor, it is necessary to reduce period of product development. Thus, concurrent engineering that work many process at a time was appeared and Rapid prototyping was appeared, it is method that rapidly produce the prototype. If the graphic model was made by CAD, the prototype can be made in short term. That provide what the part was directly tested by the worker. It provide a worker with believable data. We study on the influence of surface roughness on injection interval and part angle at FDM.

• 한국기계가공학회지
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• 제2권1호
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• pp.45-50
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• 2003

In any rapid prototyping process, the layer by layer building process introduces an area error between the staircase and the surface line specified by the computer-aided design model. This affects the dimensional accuracy as well as the surface finish for different Road Widths. This paper describes a methodology for computing the area error for any Road Width by the fused deposition modelling system. This technique can be applied to determine the best Road Width of the part, based on the minimum area error. This technique is verified by comparing the results with the experimental measurements of the area error with Road Widths.

• 한국CDE학회논문집
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• 제21권3호
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• pp.224-233
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• 2016

We propose a new method to visualize 3D models for FDM (Fused Deposition. Modeling) printing that appearance of the printed results can be predicted more realistically as that the efficiency of the modeling-printing process can be improved. The layered nature of horizontal slicing and the vibratory nozzle movements of customer-level FDM 3D printers leaving the characteristic patterns of noisy stripes on the surfaces of printed objects make difficulties in prediction of printed result in company with the thermal contraction of filament material. First, our method analyses the G-codes generated by common slicers to obtain proper outlines and take advantages of a modified version of Perlin noise based texturing method for rendering efficiency and enough number of control parameters on the visual details. The results show improved rendering details of pre-visualization of FDM printing.

• 대한기계학회논문집A
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• 제38권8호
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• pp.869-874
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• 2014

임의형상 제작기술을 이용하면 원하는 형상을 빠르게 제작할 수 있다. 하지만 임의형상 제작기술을 직접 제품을 생산하기 위한 제조기술에 적용하기 위해서는 문제점들이 있다. 이에, 하나의 대안으로써 다중재료 임의형상 제작기술이 주목 받고 있다. 특히 다중재료 임의형상 제작기술을 이용하면 기존의 2 차원 PCB 와는 다른, 회로 소자의 배열 및 외부 형상의 제약이 적은 3 차원 회로 장치를 제작 할 수 있다. 본 연구에서는 3 차원 회로 장치 제작을 위하여 FDM 방식과 직접주사 방식을 통합한 장치를 설계하고, 이 장치를 이용하여 3 차원 회로장치를 제작하였다. 즉, LED와 조도센서를 이용한 3 차원 회로 장치를 제작하여 작동을 확인하였으며, 자동화된 3 차원 회로 장치의 제작을 위한 임의형상 제작 기술과 직접주사 기술이 통합된 시스템 개발에 대한 기초연구를 수행하였다.