Material Properties of Additive Manufactured Composite Materials

Additive manufacturing (AM) also known as 3D printing has tremendous advancements in recent days with a vast number of applications in industrial, automotive, architecture, consumer projects, fashion, toys, food, art, etc. Composite materials are widely used in structures with weight as a critical factor especially in aerospace industry. Recently, additive manufacturing technology has gained lot of importance in making composite materials. The properties of composite materials depend upon the properties of constituent?s matrix and fiber. There is lot of research on effect of fiber orientation on mechanical properties of composite materials made using conventional manufacturing methods. It will be interesting and relevant to study the relationship between the fiber orientation and fiber volume with mechanical properties of additively manufactured composite materials. In this work Pin-On-Disk tests were conducted to ascertain the coefficient of friction, frictional force and rate of wear of the materials. Tensile tests were conducted to determine the mechanical properties of 3D printed polymer composites.