Glass Fiber, The oldest and most used in compositesCarbon fiber, most widely used in high performance applicationsKevlar fiber, famous for bulletproof vests

For FFF...

Direct drive extruders are combined with the hot end to form a single printhead and push the filament directly into the nozzle.

Bowden extruders have a Bowden tube...

FDM 3D printing filament is made possible by processing the pellets from thermoplastic resin.If the pellets could be used directly for printing instead of the filament,...

Photopolymerization of Resins in SLA 

When the photoinitiator absorbs UV, the molecule splits into two radicals.These radicals combine with monomers to form new radicals...

SLS is a type of 3D printing technology that uses a laser to sinter fine powder materials together into a solid structure, creating one solid mass.

SLM is a type of 3D...

FFF (FDM) 3D printing is the most commonly used method because of the simplicity, intuitiveness, easy-to-understand principles, and methods of use.

Depending on the...

SLA (Stereolithography) is a type of 3D printing technology that creates a model, layer by layer, using a liquid photopolymerizable resin.SLA printers are commonly...

Glass transition can be defined as the transition of a material from a hard glassy state to a viscous, yet flexible state (or vice versa).

While passing the glass...

PLA and ABS are the most commonly used plastics in the industrial 3D printing process.

It is important to select the right material by understanding the properties of...

Stress can be defined by the internal resistance per unit area against deformation which is caused by an external force.Strain is the amount of deformation a body...