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. 2021 Nov 20;13(22):4022. doi: 10.3390/polym13224022

Table 1.

Research on printing parameters.

Authors Materials Methods Dimensions & Testing Standards Outcomes
Base Addition Tensile Flexural Compressive
Es-Said et al. (2000) [36] ABS - Variation of raster angle ASTM D638 ASTM D790 - UTS: ~20.6 MPa, at 0° raster
angle.
FS: ~44.4 MPa, at 0° raster angle.
Rodriguez et al. (2001) [37] ABS - Variation of the air gap ASTM D3039 - - The printed parts had a lower modulus and strength by 11–37%
and 2–57%, respectively,
compared to the single
filament.
Ahn et al. (2002) [21] ABS - Variation of raster angles for tensile test; Horizontal & vertical builds for
compression, compared to the samples obtained from injection molding (IM)
ASTM D3039 - Not
standardized
UTS IM: 26 MPa,
UTS FFF: 10–3% of IM; The greatest UTS occurred at the sample with a 0° angle.
CS IM: ~40 MPa,
CS FFF: 80–90% of IM. The greatest CS occurred at the sample with the horizontal build.
Bellini and Güçeri (2003) [38] ABS - Variation of build
orientations and
criss-cross raster angle
ASTM D5937 - - When the tensile load was
in-line with the fiber
orientation, the tensile strengths of each sample was not much different from one
another.
If the fiber orientation was not in-line to the tensile load applied, the load bearing role was carried out by the interlayer bonding of
adjacent filaments.
Lee et al. (2007) [39] ABS - Vertical & horizontal build - - ASTM D695 CS: 41.26 MPa at a horizontal build—11.6% higher than the CS of the sample prepared with a vertical build.
Sood et al. (2010)
[29]
ABS - Variation of layer
thickness, orientation,
raster angle, raster width, and air gap
ISO R527 ISO R178 - UTS: ~39.24 MPa, at 0.127 mm layer thickness, 30°
orientation, 60° raster angle, 0.4064 mm raster width, and 0.0080 mm air gap.
FS: ~18.09 MPa, at 0.127 mm layer thickness, 30°
orientation, 60° raster angle, 0.4064 mm raster width, and 0.0080 mm air gap
Sood et al. (2012)
[40]
ABS - Variation of layer
thickness, orientation,
raster angle, raster width, and air gap
- - ISO R291 CS 17.475 MPa, at 0.254 mm layer thickness, 0.036°
orientation, 59.44° raster
angle, 0.422 mm raster width, and 0.00026 mm air gap.
Jami et al. (2013)
[41]
ABS - Variation of build
orientation on dynamic compressive strength
- - Not standardized Dynamic CS: ~80 MPa, at
vertical orientation.
Durgun and Ertan (2014) [42] ABS - Variation of build
orientation and raster
angle (H = Horizontal,
V = Vertical,
P = Perpendicular)
ISO R527 ISO R178 - UTS: ~35 MPa, at H-0°, but lower modulus (~2 GPa),
Elastic Modulus: ~2.5 GPa, at P-90°, but lower strength (~20 MPa).
FS: ~60 MPa, at V-0°.
Lanzotti et al. (2015) [43] PLA - Variation of build
orientation, raster angle, and layer thickness
ASTM D638 - - UTS: 53.59 MPa at 0° raster angle with 0.15 mm layer thickness and horizontal build.
Ziemian et al. (2015) [44] ABS >- Variation of raster angle, compared to injection molding (IM) ASTM D638 - - UTS IM: 27 MPa
UTS FFF: 25.15 MPa, at 0° angle.
Álvarez et al. (2016) [45] ABS - Variation of infill
percentage, build
orientation, and extrusion temperature
ASTM D638 - - UTS: 34.57 MPa, at 100%
infill, horizontal build, 0.2 mm layer thickness, and 250 °C extrusion
orientation, and extrusion temperature.
Dawoud et al. (2016) [10] ABS - Variation of criss-cross raster angle and air gap, compared to IM ISO R527 ISO R178 - UTS IM: 37.7 MPa.
UTS FFF: 34.3 MPa,
at 45°/−45° raster angle with an air gap of −0.05 mm.
FS IM: 72.5 MPa.
FS FFF: 64 MPa, at 0°/90° raster angle with an air gap of −0.005 mm.
Rankouhi et al. (2016) [46] ABS - Variation of layer thickness, raster angle, and number of layers ASTM D638 - - UTS: 39.4 MPa, at 0° raster
angle, 0.2 mm layer
thickness, total 35 layers. The UTS increase as the number of layer increase.
Cantrell et al. (2017) [47] ABS & PC - Variation of criss-cross raster angle and build
orientation
ASTM D638 - - Yield Strength (ABS): 33.5 ± 0.5 MPa, at 0°/90° horizontal build. Yield Strength (PC): 61.1 ± 0.5 MPa, at 45°/−45° vertical build.
Chacón et al. (2017) [48] PLA - Variation of build
orientation, layer
thickness, and printing speed
ASTM D638 ASTM D790 - UTS: ~88 MPa at horizontal build, 0.06 mm layer thickness, and 80 mm/s printing speed.
FS: ~62 MPa at vertical build, 0.06 mm layer thickness, and 80 mm/s printing speed.
Rajpurohit and Dave (2018) [31] PLA - Variation of raster angle, layer thickness, and raster width ASTM D638 - - UTS: 47.3 ± 2.69 MPa at 0° raster angle, 0.1 mm layer height, and 0.6 mm raster width.
Kuznetsov et al. (2020) [49] PLA - Variation of extrusion temperature and feed rate - Not standardized - FS: 71.1 MPa, at 250 °C
extrusion temperature, 25 mm/s printing speed, and without cooling from a fan.