Affiliation:
1. Department of Industry Engineering, Northwestern Polytechnical University, Xi’an 710072, China
2. Department of Industrial Engineering, College of Engineering, King Saud University, 800, Riyadh 11421, Saudi Arabia
3. College of Mechanical and Electrical Engineering, Nanjing University of Aeronautics and Astronautics, Nanjing 210016, China
Abstract
This research aims to establish the ideal settings for Nylon-6 (PA6) three-dimensional printing utilizing the fused filament production process and examine the resultant surface roughness. ANOVA, S/N ratio, and modeling are explained, along with their application in identifying the ideal values for surface roughness, sustainability, and mechanical properties. Average-surface roughness (Ra), root-mean-squared surface roughness (Rq), print time (PT), print energy (PE), and tensile testing (T) were explored as response parameters to identify the impact of PA6 parameters (layer thickness, extrusion temperature, print speed, and infill density). Tests of validity demonstrated a significant decline in Ra, Rq, PE, PT, and T for the ideal values of the developed product of 10.58 µm and 13.3 µm, 23 min, 0.13 kWh, and 42.7 Mpa, respectively. Ra, Rq, PT, PE, and T have all been optimized using Taguchi techniques as a preliminary step towards application in future research and prototypes.
Subject
Electrical and Electronic Engineering,Industrial and Manufacturing Engineering,Control and Optimization,Mechanical Engineering,Computer Science (miscellaneous),Control and Systems Engineering