All Outputs (11)

Insights into the mechanical properties of several triplyperiodic minimal surface lattice structures made by polymeradditive manufacturing (2017)
Journal Article
Maskery, I., Sturm, L., Aremu, A., Panesar, A., Williams, C., Tuck, C., …Hague, R. J. (2018). Insights into the mechanical properties of several triplyperiodic minimal surface lattice structures made by polymeradditive manufacturing. Polymer, 152, 62-71. https://doi.org/10.1016/j.polymer.2017.11.049

Three-dimensional lattices have applications across a range of fields including structural lightweighting, impact absorption and biomedicine. In this work, lattices based on triply periodic minimal surfaces were produced by polymer additive manufactu... Read More about Insights into the mechanical properties of several triplyperiodic minimal surface lattice structures made by polymeradditive manufacturing.

Defect evolution in laser powder bed fusion additive manufactured components during thermo-mechanical testing (2017)
Conference Proceeding
Xu, Z., Hyde, C. J., Thompson, A., Leach, R. K., Maskery, I., Tuck, C., & Clare, A. T. (2017). Defect evolution in laser powder bed fusion additive manufactured components during thermo-mechanical testing.

The mechanical performance of additively manufactured (AM) components remains an issue, limiting the implementation of AM technologies. In this work, a new method is presented, to examine the evolution of defects in an Inconel 718 two-bar test specim... Read More about Defect evolution in laser powder bed fusion additive manufactured components during thermo-mechanical testing.

Meso-scale defect evaluation of selective laser melting using spatially resolved acoustic spectroscopy (2017)
Journal Article
Hirsch, M., Catchpole-Smith, S., Patel, R., Marrow, P., Li, W., Tuck, C., …Clare, A. T. (2017). Meso-scale defect evaluation of selective laser melting using spatially resolved acoustic spectroscopy. Proceedings of the Royal Society A: Mathematical, Physical and Engineering Sciences, 473(2205), https://doi.org/10.1098/rspa.2017.0194

Developments in additive manufacturing technology are serving to expand the potential applications. Critical developments are required in the supporting areas of measurement and in process inspection to achieve this. CM247LC is a nickel superalloy th... Read More about Meso-scale defect evaluation of selective laser melting using spatially resolved acoustic spectroscopy.

3D inkjet printing of electronics using UV conversion (2017)
Journal Article
Saleh, E., Zhang, F., He, Y., Vaithilingam, J., Fernandez, J. L., Wildman, R. D., …Tuck, C. (2017). 3D inkjet printing of electronics using UV conversion. Advanced Materials Technologies, 2(10), Article 1700134. https://doi.org/10.1002/admt.201700134

The production of electronic circuits and devices is limited by current manufacturing methods that limit both the form and potentially the performance of these systems. Additive Manufacturing (AM) is a technology that has been shown to provide cross... Read More about 3D inkjet printing of electronics using UV conversion.

3D printing of tablets using inkjet with UV photoinitiation (2017)
Journal Article
Clark, E. A., Alexander, M. R., Irvine, D. J., Roberts, C. J., Wallace, M. J., Sharpe, S., …Wildman, R. D. (2017). 3D printing of tablets using inkjet with UV photoinitiation. International Journal of Pharmaceutics, 529(1-2), 523-530. https://doi.org/10.1016/j.ijpharm.2017.06.085

Additive manufacturing (AM) offers significant potential benefits in the field of drug delivery and pharmaceutical/medical device manufacture. Of AM processes, 3D inkjet printing enables precise deposition of a formulation, whilst offering the potent... Read More about 3D printing of tablets using inkjet with UV photoinitiation.

Multi-branched benzylidene ketone based photoinitiators for multiphoton fabrication (2017)
Journal Article
Zhang, F., Hu, Q., Castanon, A., He, Y., Liu, Y., Paul, B., …Wildman, R. D. (2017). Multi-branched benzylidene ketone based photoinitiators for multiphoton fabrication. Additive Manufacturing, 16, 206-212. https://doi.org/10.1016/j.addma.2017.06.008

In this article, we report the synthesis of a series of multi-branched benzylidene (BI) ketone-based photo-initiators for two-photon polymerisation based 3D printing/additive manufacturing. Resins prepared by the addition of 1 wt.% of these initiator... Read More about Multi-branched benzylidene ketone based photoinitiators for multiphoton fabrication.

Calorimetric study and microstructure analysis of the order-disorder phase transformation in silicon steel built by SLM (2017)
Journal Article
Lemke, J., Simonelli, M., Garibaldi, M., Ashcroft, I., Hague, R., Vedani, M., …Tuck, C. (2017). Calorimetric study and microstructure analysis of the order-disorder phase transformation in silicon steel built by SLM. Journal of Alloys and Compounds, 722, 293-301. https://doi.org/10.1016/j.jallcom.2017.06.085

Innovative Additive Manufacturing (AM) technologies like Selective Laser Melting (SLM) could prove to be efficient for the processing of brittle silicon steel (Fe-Si) with high silicon content. This research elucidates the effects of heat-treatment o... Read More about Calorimetric study and microstructure analysis of the order-disorder phase transformation in silicon steel built by SLM.

Selective laser melting of aluminium alloys (2017)
Journal Article
Aboulkhair, N. T., Everitt, N. M., Maskery, I., Ashcroft, I., & Tuck, C. (2017). Selective laser melting of aluminium alloys. MRS Bulletin, 42(4), 311-319. https://doi.org/10.1557/mrs.2017.63

Metal additive manufacturing (AM) processes, such as selective laser melting, enable powdered metals to be formed into arbitrary 3D shapes. For aluminium alloys, which are desirable in many high-value applications for their low density and good mecha... Read More about Selective laser melting of aluminium alloys.

An investigation into the depth and time dependent behavior of UV cured 3D ink jet printed objects (2017)
Journal Article
Chen, X., Ashcroft, I., Tuck, C., He, Y., Hague, R. J., & Wildman, R. D. (2017). An investigation into the depth and time dependent behavior of UV cured 3D ink jet printed objects. Journal of Materials Research, 32(8), 1407-1420. https://doi.org/10.1557/jmr.2017.4

An ultra-violet (UV) curable ink jet 3D printed material was characterized by an inverse finite element modeling (IFEM) technique employing a nonlinear viscoelastic–viscoplastic (NVEVP) material constitutive model; this methodology was compared direc... Read More about An investigation into the depth and time dependent behavior of UV cured 3D ink jet printed objects.

Fractal scan strategies for selective laser melting of ‘unweldable’ nickel superalloys (2017)
Journal Article
Catchpole-Smith, S., Aboulkhair, N., Parry, L., Tuck, C., Ashcroft, I., & Clare, A. (in press). Fractal scan strategies for selective laser melting of ‘unweldable’ nickel superalloys. Additive Manufacturing, https://doi.org/10.1016/j.addma.2017.02.002

The high thermal gradients experienced during manufacture via selective laser melting commonly result in cracking of high γ/γ′ Nickel based superalloys. Such defects cannot be tolerated in applications where component integrity is of paramount import... Read More about Fractal scan strategies for selective laser melting of ‘unweldable’ nickel superalloys.

Combined inkjet printing and infrared sintering of silver nanoparticles using a swathe-by-swathe and layer-by-layer approach for 3-dimensional structures (2017)
Journal Article
Vaithilingam, J., Simonelli, M., Saleh, E., Senin, N., Wildman, R. D., Hague, R. J. M., …Tuck, C. J. (2017). Combined inkjet printing and infrared sintering of silver nanoparticles using a swathe-by-swathe and layer-by-layer approach for 3-dimensional structures. ACS Applied Materials and Interfaces, 9(7), 6560-6570. https://doi.org/10.1021/acsami.6b14787

Despite the advancement of additive manufacturing (AM)/3-dimensional (3D) printing, single-step fabrication of multifunctional parts using AM is limited. With the view of enabling multifunctional AM (MFAM), in this study, sintering of metal nanoparti... Read More about Combined inkjet printing and infrared sintering of silver nanoparticles using a swathe-by-swathe and layer-by-layer approach for 3-dimensional structures.