Tushar Saini

Graduation Semester and Year

2015

Language

English

Document Type

Thesis

Degree Name

Master of Engineering in Mechanical Engineering

Department

Mechanical and Aerospace Engineering

First Advisor

Panayiotis S Shiakolas

Abstract

Additive Manufacturing processes have been developing and continuously improving but are primarily constrained to single materials, albeit some commercial multi extrusion 3D printers do exist where by it is possible to print with multi-colored fluidic polymers or at most two filaments of the same type. 3D printing an object with volumetric varying properties requires manual modification of the G-Code, not a feasible option considering the average size of G-Code generated by the slicing software. This research focuses on developing a post processing methodology that modifies the large G-Code files generated by the slicing software according to user requirements. The proposed methodology has been tested on the Custom Multi-Modality 3D BioPrinter (CMMB) that combines multiple fabrication technologies on a single additive manufacturing platform.

Keywords

Additive manufacturing, Multi-process

Disciplines

Aerospace Engineering | Engineering | Mechanical Engineering

Comments

Degree granted by The University of Texas at Arlington

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