Large-scale additive manufacturing with reactive polymers

John Lindahl; Ahmed Arabi Hassen; Stian Romberg; Ben Hedger; P. H. Peter Hedger; Mike Walch; Tim Deluca; Wes Morrison; Seokpum Kim; Alex Roschli; David Nuttal; John Czachowski; Brian Post; Lonnie Love; Vlastimil Kunc

Large-scale additive manufacturing with reactive polymers

John Lindahl, Ahmed Arabi Hassen, Stian Romberg, Ben Hedger, P. H. Peter Hedger, Mike Walch, Tim Deluca, Wes Morrison, Seokpum Kim, Alex Roschli, David Nuttal, John Czachowski, Brian Post, Lonnie Love, Vlastimil Kunc

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Abstract

The focus on large-scale polymer Additive Manufacturing (AM) has previously been on thermoplastic materials. However, Magnum Venus Products (MVP) along with researchers at Oak Ridge National Laboratory's (ORNL) Manufacturing Demonstration Facility (MDF) are introducing a unique AM system capable of depositing reactive polymers in a large format. The system's footprint is 4.88 m (16ft) x 2.44 m (8ft). The benefits of printing with reactive polymers rather than thermoplastic polymers include reduced dependence on temperature control of the process, chemical reactions across the bead-to-bead interfaces, and increased toolpath flexibility that is currently unattainable with existing large-scale systems. This flexible AM system can be used with a variety of polymers, and pre-processin and post-processing operations will be performed outside of the printer on a removable print bed. Examples of printed structures and machine capabilities leading to improved productivity of AM equipment are presented herein.

Original language	English
State	Published - 2018
Event	5th Annual Composites and Advanced Materials Expo, CAMX 2018 - Dallas, United States Duration: Oct 15 2018 → Oct 18 2018

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Conference	5th Annual Composites and Advanced Materials Expo, CAMX 2018
Country/Territory	United States
City	Dallas
Period	10/15/18 → 10/18/18

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This manuscript has been authored by UT-Battelle, LLC under Contract No. DE-AC05-00OR22725 with the U.S. Department of Energy. The United States Government retains and the publisher, by accepting the article for publication, acknowledges that the United States Government retains a non-exclusive, paid-up, irrevocable, world-wide license to publish or reproduce the published form of this manuscript, or allow others to do so, for United States Government purposes. The Department of Energy will provide public access to these results of federally sponsored research in accordance with the DOE Public Access Plan (http://energy.gov/downloads/doe-public-access-plan). CAMX Conference Proceedings. Dallas, TX, October 15-18, 2018. CAMX – The Composites and Advanced

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