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IJssel de Schepper, S.R. (author), Hunt, A. (author)The additive manufacturing of electroactive polymer (EAP) devices poses significant challenges due to their distinct structure and dissimilar properties of their constituent materials. It requires deposition of multiple functional materials with different properties, achieving μm-scale resolution in layer thickness, and executing incremental...journal article 2024
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Xie, J. (author), Xu, Y. (author), Meng, Z. (author), Liang, M. (author), Wan, Z. (author), Šavija, B. (author)Auxetic cementitious cellular composites (ACCCs) exhibit desirable mechanical properties (e.g., high fracture resistance and energy dissipation), due to their unique deformation characteristics. In this study, a new type of cementitious auxetic material, referred to as peanut shaped ACCC, has been designed and subsequently architected using...journal article 2024
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Wan, Z. (author), Xu, Y. (author), He, S. (author), Schlangen, E. (author), Šavija, B. (author)This paper presents a state-of-the-art review on the application of additive manufacturing (AM) in self-healing cementitious materials. AM has been utilized in self-healing cementitious materials in three ways: (1) concrete with 3D-printed capsules/vasculatures; (2) 3D concrete printing (3DCP) with fibers or supplementary cementitious...journal article 2024
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Zillen, Eva (author), van der Windt, B. (author), Vallery, H. (author), Smit, G. (author)Background: Pneumatic actuators are widely used in applications like (medical) robots, or prostheses. Pneumatic actuators require a complex manufacturing process and are produced in standardized dimensions to reduce costs. Over the last decade 3D-printing has emerged as a cost-effective and efficient production method in medical applications....journal article 2024
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Tognan, A. (author), Patanè, Andrea (author), Laurenti, L. (author), Salvati, Enrico (author)Accurate fatigue assessment of material plagued by defects is of utmost importance to guarantee safety and service continuity in engineering components. This study shows how state-of-the-art semi-empirical models can be endowed with additional defect descriptors to probabilistically predict the occurrence of fatigue failures by exploiting...journal article 2024
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Putra, N.E. (author), Moosabeiki, Vahid (author), Leeflang, M.A. (author), Zhou, J. (author), Zadpoor, A.A. (author)Additively manufactured (AM) biodegradable porous iron-manganese (FeMn) alloys have recently been developed as promising bone-substituting biomaterials. However, their corrosion fatigue behavior has not yet been studied. Here, we present the first study on the corrosion fatigue behavior of an extrusion-based AM porous Fe35Mn alloy under...journal article 2024
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Wan, Z. (author)Self-healing concrete has great potential to enhance the durability of concrete structures without significantly increasing the initial costs. Among the self-healing approaches, vascular self-healing cementitious composite is capable of supplying healing agents to the cracked region in a continuous way or multiple times. However, the use of...doctoral thesis 2023
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Chaves Figueiredo, S. (author)Adding extra functionality to cementitious materials will enhance the capabilities of understanding the use of structures where they are used and at the same time increase its life span. The construction industry is one of the most important economic sectors in many countries. Therefore, efforts to improve its productivity can result in...doctoral thesis 2023
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Veenstra, Riemer (author)In this research, a thermal analysis of the wire and arc additive manufacturing process is presented based on the F.E. method. <br/><br/>An important quality of the F.E. model that is presented in this research is to describe the temperature field that is experienced by the deposited material in the wire and arc additive manufacturing process....master thesis 2023
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Laureijs, Noortje (author)This thesis investigates novel foaming materials for fused deposition modelling (FDM) which have been introduced in 2019. The materials are able to foam by the addition of foaming agents. Foaming materials for FDM printing can be advantageous since they can create lightweight models, and have good impact strength and toughness in relation to...master thesis 2023
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Pfarr, Daniel (author), Louter, P.C. (author)The use of thin glass promises to enable a variety of construction industry pursuits. In addition to the ecological benefits of more efficient use of resources, architects can anticipate new design freedoms with thin glass. Based on the sandwich theory, the flexible thin glass can be combined with a 3D-printed open-cell polymer core to form a...journal article 2023
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Setaki, F. (author), Tian, F. (author), Turrin, M. (author), Tenpierik, M.J. (author), Nijs, L. (author), van Timmeren, A. (author)This paper discusses a novel, compact sound absorption solution with high performance at various frequencies, including low frequencies, achieved through the effective use of Computational Design and Additive Manufacturing (AM). Sound absorption is widely applied for reducing noise and improving room acoustics; however, it is often constrained...journal article 2023
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Yan, Z. (author), Zhu, Jia-Ning (author), Borisov, Evgenii (author), Riemslag, A.C. (author), Scott, S.P. (author), Hermans, M.J.M. (author), Jovanova, J. (author), Popovich, V. (author)In energy absorption applications, architectured metallic materials generally suffer from unrecoverable deformation as a result of local yield damage or inelastic buckling. Nitinol (NiTi) offers recoverable deformation and energy dissipation due to its unique superelasticity, which can change the way we design and additively manufacture...journal article 2023
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Yang, J. (author), Chen, Xiaohong (author), Sun, Yuanxi (author), Feng, Chen (author), Yang, Zheng (author), Zadpoor, A.A. (author), Mirzaali, Mohammad J. (author), Bai, Long (author)The advent of additive manufacturing has facilitated the design and fabrication of hybrid lattice structures with multiple morphologies. These structures combine multiple distinct architectures into a single structure with an exceptional performance that far exceeds that of each constituting architecture. However, combining strut-based...journal article 2023
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Ranjan, R. (author), Langelaar, Matthijs (author), van Keulen, A. (author), Ayas, C. (author)Computational process modelling of metal additive manufacturing has gained significant research attention in recent past. The cornerstone of many process models is the transient thermal response during the AM process. Since deposition-scale modelling of the thermal conditions in AM is computationally expensive, spatial and temporal...journal article 2023
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Li, Yageng (author), Shi, Yixuan (author), Lu, Yuchen (author), Li, Xuan (author), Zhou, J. (author), Zadpoor, A.A. (author), Wang, Luning (author)With the advancement of additive manufacturing (AM), customized vascular stents can now be fabricated to fit the curvatures and sizes of a narrowed or blocked blood vessel, thereby reducing the possibility of thrombosis and restenosis. More importantly, AM enables the design and fabrication of complex and functional stent unit cells that...review 2023
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Bayat, Mohamad (author), Zinovieva, Olga (author), Ferrari, Federico (author), Ayas, C. (author), Langelaar, Matthijs (author), Spangenberg, Jon (author), Salajeghe, Roozbeh (author), Poulios, Konstantinos (author), Mohanty, Sankhya (author), Sigmund, Ole (author), Hattel, Jesper (author)Additive manufacturing (AM) processes have proven to be a perfect match for topology optimization (TO), as they are able to realize sophisticated geometries in a unique layer-by-layer manner. From a manufacturing viewpoint, however, there is a significant likelihood of process-related defects within complex geometrical features designed by TO...review 2023
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Macallister, N. (author), Chellu, Sreyas (author), Riemslag, A.C. (author), Scott, S.P. (author), Ayas, C. (author), Popovich, V. (author), Becker, Thorsten Hermann (author)Sub-size specimen testing offers a potentially elegant solution to accompany fatigue life assessments in determining vital fatigue parameters such as effective fatigue crack growth propagation thresholds (ΔK<sub>th,eff</sub>). Additively manufactured parts stand to benefit from this in potential build-by-build fatigue validation without...journal article 2023
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Li, Y. (author), Pavanram, P. (author), Bühring, J. (author), Rütten, S. (author), Schröder, K. U. (author), Zhou, J. (author), Pufe, T. (author), Wang, L. . (author), Zadpoor, A.A. (author), Jahr, H. (author)Additively manufactured (AM) degradable porous metallic biomaterials offer unique opportunities for satisfying the design requirements of an ideal bone substitute. Among the currently available biodegradable metals, iron has the highest elastic modulus, meaning that it would benefit the most from porous design. Given the successful...journal article 2023
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van der Zwet, J.M. (author), Delissen, A.A.T.M. (author), Langelaar, Matthijs (author)Topology optimization has seen increased interest with the rise of additive manufacturing (AM) as a fabrication method, because of its ability to exploit the geometric complexity that AM offers. However, AM still imposes some geometric restrictions on the design, most notably on minimum feature size, overhang angles, and enclosed voids....journal article 2023