Study on the ultimate tensile stress and fatigue life in recycled PLA printed by FDM with different percentages of relative humidity
摘要
Effect of relative humidity in Fused Deposition Modeling specimens on tensile and fatigue mechanical properties is evaluated. Virgin and recycled PLA specimens are generated using a factorial DoE study with three factors: Relative humidity (three levels 18%, 22%, and 26%); number of perimeters (two levels: 3 and 6 contours); and nozzle temperature (two levels: 190 °C and 220 °C). UTS is output factor of ANOVA. Virgin and recycled PLA specimens with the highest UTS values were fatigue tested under cyclic tensile loading, with stress increments from 50 to 90% UTS in 10% increments. The objective is to determine the number of cycles to failure. Results show that virgin PLA achieves higher UTS values than recycled PLA. The combination of recycled PLA with 18%HR, six contours, and a nozzle temperature of 190 °C achieves a UTS of 29 MPa, higher than its own filament of 18 MPa and more than 100 × 103cycles to fatigue.
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