...Bethany Parkinson; Lena Spindelman; Spencer P. Magleby; Jared Butler Purpose Fused filament fabrication 3D printers often struggle to achieve precise behavior in actuating mechanisms such as compliant mechanisms. As defined by the pseudo-rigid body model ( PRBM ), a high mechanical strength...

...Rezgar Hasanzadeh Purpose The purpose ofthis study is to quantify how infill geometry affects the crashworthiness of fused filament fabrication ( FFF ) 3D-printed polylactic acid ( PLA ) tubular structures subjected to axial compression, with the aim of identifying an infill pattern that maximizes...

...Mayur Jiyalal Prajapati; Heng-Hsiang Chang; Dong Ruan; Wojciech Macek; Cho-Pei Jiang Purpose The study aims to develop an intelligent and real-time defect detection framework for Fused Filament Fabrication ( FFF ) to address limitations in process reliability and quality control. It focuses...

...Anil Ansoliya; Vivek V. Bhandarkar; Vijay Kumar Gupta Purpose Layer shifting is one of the most critical machine-induced defects in fused filament fabrication ( FFF ) three-dimensional (3D) printing, primarily caused by belt drive slippage along the x-axis. This defect leads...

... Shailendra Kumar skbudhwar@med.svnit.ac.in 27 04 2025 11 09 2025 18 11 2025 07 01 2026 08 01 2026 © 2026 Emerald Publishing Limited 2026 Emerald Publishing Limited Licensed re-use rights only TPMS structures Fused filament fabrication Geometric parameters...

.../methodology/approach Fused filament fabrication and composite material made of bio-sourced polylactic acid filled with carbon black particles are used. First, the hinge is conceived as the answer to an inverse design problem: its geometry integrates an electrical circuit and the influence of the printing...

... surface quality and mechanical properties of the final products. Design/methodology/approach In this study, a Design of Experiments ( DOE ) approach is implemented to vary the most critical parameters of the Fused Filament Fabrication ( FFF ) process, namely, nozzle diameter ( ND ), layer height ( LH...

... to test the hypothesis that these treatments are suitable if convenient printing parameters are used. Design/methodology/approach Polymers are printed onto aluminum parts using fused-filament-fabrication ( FFF ). The effects of anodizing in phosphoric acid at low voltages and of organosilicate coating...

... Licensed re-use rights only Additive manufacturing Material extrusion Fused filament fabrication Thermoplastic Impact strength Fused filament fabrication (FFF) is an additive manufacturing (AM) method in which a thermoplastic filament is fed into a print head where it is heated, melted...

...Amirhossein Farzipour; Rezgar Hasanzadeh Purpose This study aims to evaluate the effect of a wide range of printing speeds (50–500 mm/s) on the mechanical performance and production efficiency of polylactic acid ( PLA ) specimens produced by fused filament fabrication ( FFF ). It specifically...

.../methodology/approach This research paper focuses on fabricating biodegradable hybrid auxetic tubes of transparent PLA and white PLA Pro+ by Fused Filament Fabrication ( FFF ). This novel polymeric hybrid auxetic tube ( PHAT ) design comprises re-entrant, hexagonal, meta-chiral auxetic unit cells...

... fabricated via fused filament fabrication ( FFF ). Understanding these effects is key to optimizing the process for precision engineering and biofabrication applications. Design/methodology/approach Hollow cylindrical specimens were printed under varying conditions: extrusion temperature (240°C–270°C...

... et al., 2019). Whilst there have been reviews of mechanical properties based off print parameters, there is a gap found when vapour smoothing is included (Abdulrazaq et al., 2023). Additive manufacturing 3D printing Fused filament fabrication Fused deposition modelling Vapour...

...Cleiton Lazaro Fazolo De Assis; Kelvin dos Santos Tiene; Wesley Barbosa Da Silva; Guilherme Rosati Mecelis Purpose This study aims to optimize the geometric accuracy of thin-walled components manufactured by fused filament fabrication using high-temperature polylactic acid, focusing...

...Ángela García de la Camacha; José Sánchez del Río; Javier LLorca Purpose The purpose of this study is to demonstrate the viability of dual extrusion fused filament fabrication to manufacture polymer matrix composite laminates reinforced with large diameter (300 µm) metallic wires. Design...

... through filament-based fused filament fabrication (FFF) using a self-developed filament. The goal is to improve the quality and performance of the final sintered components. Design/methodology/approach A filament containing 92 Wt.% 316L stainless steel with polyoxymethylene (POM)-based binder...

... deposition modelling 3D printing Fused filament fabrication Porosity Build direction Raster TPEs exhibit non-linear stress–strain behaviour, meaning there is no constant elastic modulus defining their complete elastic response, making it difficult to identify a yield point (Kucherskii, 2003...

... of the fused filament fabrication (FFF) technology to produce rapid and patient-specific complex anatomical models, the issue of human tissue-filament material incompatibilities persists owing to the lack of attenuation coefficients in the same range as biological tissues. The purpose of this study...

...Hardik D. Sondagar; Shailendra Kumar Purpose Fused filament fabrication (FFF) is a widely used 3D printing technique for the fabrication of mechanical metamaterials with intricate geometries. Gradient strategy is applied to geometric parameters of gradient star re-entrant hybrid auxetic (GSRA...

...Fabian Kranert; Moritz Hinkelmann; Roland Lachmayer; Jörg Neumann; Dietmar Kracht Purpose This study aims to extend the known design guidelines for the polymer-based fused filament fabrication (FFF) 3D printing process with the focus on function-integrated components, specifically optomechanical...