As additive manufacturing technologies advance,new opportunities are opening up for their application in the furniture industry.Wood remains one of the leading raw materials in the furniture industry;therefore,possibl...As additive manufacturing technologies advance,new opportunities are opening up for their application in the furniture industry.Wood remains one of the leading raw materials in the furniture industry;therefore,possible options for combining it with 3D printing have been researched.The bonding of 3D-printed polymer parts with wood or 3D printing with wood-plastic composites is already known,but in our research we attempted to directly 3D print polylactic acid(PLA)on wood surfaces.The effect of printing parameters,as well as the surface preparation of wood on the shear strength of the bond between wood and on-printed material was tested.Microscopic images of cross-sections of samples were analyzed.The results show that with a lower initial layer thickness(0.1 mm),a higher printing temperature(220℃),and with the use of polyvinyl acetate(PVAc)primer on the wood surface before 3D printing,a higher bond strength(5.4 MPa)was achieved,but the values for the bond strength remain low compared to the conventional bonding of wood to wood with PVAc adhesive(around 10 MPa).Microscopy studies revealed barely visible penetration of PLA into the lumens of the wood cells.However,the PVAc adhesive used as primer penetrated more into the cell lumens and served as interface layer between deposited melted PLA and the wood,thus creating stronger joints.展开更多
The effects of selected printing parameters on the fire properties of additively produced composites from neat polylactic acid(PLA)and wood/PLA filaments were investigated.The reaction to fire of the 3D-printed specim...The effects of selected printing parameters on the fire properties of additively produced composites from neat polylactic acid(PLA)and wood/PLA filaments were investigated.The reaction to fire of the 3D-printed specimens was tested according to the ISO 5660-1 cone calorimeter test method.The results showed that the properties of the specimens when exposed to fire were significantly affected by the incorporation of wood flour into the PLA filament.It was also interesting that PLA specimens had much better reactions to fire than the wood/PLA specimens.Time to ignition was found to be much longer in the 3D-printed PLA specimens.Although the maximal heat release rate was a little higher in the PLA than the wood/PLA specimens,the duration of HRR was longer for the wood/PLA specimens.The initial mass of the specimens was smaller in the wood/PLA composites,but during the radiant heat exposure the mass typically decreased slower than in the PLA specimens.展开更多
文摘As additive manufacturing technologies advance,new opportunities are opening up for their application in the furniture industry.Wood remains one of the leading raw materials in the furniture industry;therefore,possible options for combining it with 3D printing have been researched.The bonding of 3D-printed polymer parts with wood or 3D printing with wood-plastic composites is already known,but in our research we attempted to directly 3D print polylactic acid(PLA)on wood surfaces.The effect of printing parameters,as well as the surface preparation of wood on the shear strength of the bond between wood and on-printed material was tested.Microscopic images of cross-sections of samples were analyzed.The results show that with a lower initial layer thickness(0.1 mm),a higher printing temperature(220℃),and with the use of polyvinyl acetate(PVAc)primer on the wood surface before 3D printing,a higher bond strength(5.4 MPa)was achieved,but the values for the bond strength remain low compared to the conventional bonding of wood to wood with PVAc adhesive(around 10 MPa).Microscopy studies revealed barely visible penetration of PLA into the lumens of the wood cells.However,the PVAc adhesive used as primer penetrated more into the cell lumens and served as interface layer between deposited melted PLA and the wood,thus creating stronger joints.
基金would like to thank the Slovenian Research Agency for financial support within the scope of the program P4-0015,as well as BI-CN/18-20-016:Study on the functional properties and thermal safety performance of wood materials and adhesives for 3D printing technology.
文摘The effects of selected printing parameters on the fire properties of additively produced composites from neat polylactic acid(PLA)and wood/PLA filaments were investigated.The reaction to fire of the 3D-printed specimens was tested according to the ISO 5660-1 cone calorimeter test method.The results showed that the properties of the specimens when exposed to fire were significantly affected by the incorporation of wood flour into the PLA filament.It was also interesting that PLA specimens had much better reactions to fire than the wood/PLA specimens.Time to ignition was found to be much longer in the 3D-printed PLA specimens.Although the maximal heat release rate was a little higher in the PLA than the wood/PLA specimens,the duration of HRR was longer for the wood/PLA specimens.The initial mass of the specimens was smaller in the wood/PLA composites,but during the radiant heat exposure the mass typically decreased slower than in the PLA specimens.
