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Aziz, Alia Ruzanna (Aziz, Alia Ruzanna.) | Zhou, Jin (Zhou, Jin.) | Thorne, David (Thorne, David.) | Cantwell, Wesley James (Cantwell, Wesley James.)

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This paper investigates size effects on the mechanical response of additively manufactured lattice structures based on a commercially available polylactic acid (PLA) polymer. Initial attention is focused on investigating geometrical effects in the mechanical properties of simple beams and cubes. Following this, a number of geometrically scaled lattice structures based on the body-centered cubic design were manufactured and tested in order to highlight size effects in their compression properties and failure modes. A finite element analysis was also conducted in order to compare the predicted modes of failure with those observed experimentally. Scaling effects were observed in the compression response of the PLA cubes, with the compression strength increasing by approximately 19% over the range of scale sizes investigated. Similar size-related effects were observed in the flexural samples, where a brittle mode of failure was observed at all scale sizes. Here, the flexural strength increased by approximately 18% when passing from the quarter size sample to its full-scale counterpart. Significant size effects were observed following the compression tests on the scaled lattice structures. Here, the compression strength increased by approximately 60% over the four sample sizes, in spite of the fact that similar failure modes were observed in all samples. Finally, reasonably good agreement was observed between the predicted failure modes and those observed experimentally. However, the FE models tended to over-estimate the mechanical properties of the lattice structures, probably as a result of the fact that the models were assumed to be defect free.

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additive manufacturing compression tests failure modes finite element lattice structures PLA polymer scaling effects

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  • [ 1 ] [Aziz, Alia Ruzanna]Technol Innovat Inst, Adv Mat Res Ctr, Abu Dhabi 9639, U Arab Emirates
  • [ 2 ] [Zhou, Jin]Xi An Jiao Tong Univ, Sch Mech Engn, Xian 710049, Peoples R China
  • [ 3 ] [Thorne, David]Khalifa Univ Sci & Technol, Aerosp Res & Innovat Ctr ARIC, Abu Dhabi 127788, U Arab Emirates
  • [ 4 ] [Cantwell, Wesley James]Khalifa Univ Sci & Technol, Aerosp Res & Innovat Ctr ARIC, Abu Dhabi 127788, U Arab Emirates

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POLYMERS

Year: 2021

Issue: 22

Volume: 13

4 . 3 2 9

JCR@2020

ESI Discipline: CHEMISTRY;

ESI HC Threshold:32

Cited Count:

WoS CC Cited Count: 1

SCOPUS Cited Count: 12

ESI Highly Cited Papers on the List: 0 Unfold All

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30 Days PV: 2

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