Tailoring mechanical properties of PμSL 3D-printed structures via size effect

International Journal of Extreme Manufacturing(2022)

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Abstract Projection micro stereolithography (PμSL) has emerged as a powerful three-dimensional (3D) printing technique for manufacturing polymer structures with micron-scale high resolution at high printing speed, which enables the production of customized 3D microlattices with feature sizes down to several microns. However, the mechanical properties of as-printed polymers were not systemically studied at the relevant length scales, especially when the feature sizes step into micron/sub-micron level, limiting its reliable performance prediction in micro/nanolattice and other metamaterial applications. In this work, we demonstrate that PμSL-printed microfibers could become stronger and significantly more ductile with reduced size ranging from 20 μm to 60 μm, showing an obvious size-dependent mechanical behavior, in which the size decreases to 20 μm with a fracture strain up to ∼100% and fracture strength up to ∼100 MPa. Such size effect enables the tailoring of the material strength and stiffness of PμSL-printed microlattices over a broad range, allowing to fabricate the microlattice metamaterials with desired/tunable mechanical properties for various structural and functional applications.
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mechanical properties,size effect,d-printed
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