Improving Strength of 3D Printed Parts through Stress-aligned Print Paths: Using highly anisotropic Liquid Crystal Polymers

Additive Manufacturing (AM) has made it possible to manufacture parts whose shape complexity was unfeasible with other traditional methods by depositing material layer-wise. However, this planar layer-wise deposition strategy can be restrictive for the part's properties. However, the anisotropic behaviour can also be embraced and used as an...