Development of material extrusion 3D printing compatible tailorable thermoplastic elastomeric materials from acrylonitrile butadiene styrene and styrene‐(ethylene‐butylene)‐styrene block copolymer blends

Currently, material extrusion‐based additive manufacturing (MEAM) is an advanced fabrication technique for polymeric materials. However, MEAM feedstocks typically rely on amorphous thermoplastics and hence it suffers from limitation of compatible polymers. The current work reports the manufacturing...

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Published in:Journal of applied polymer science 2022-11, Vol.139 (42), p.n/a
Main Authors: Verma, Nandishwar, Awasthi, Pratiksha, Pandey, Pulak Mohan, Banerjee, Shib Shankar
Format: Article
Language:English
Subjects:
ABS resins
Acrylonitrile butadiene styrene
Amorphous materials
Block copolymers
Compatibility
Compressive strength
elastomers
Ethylene
Extrusion
Manufacturing
Materials science
Mechanical properties
Modulus of elasticity
Polymer blends
Polymers
Redevelopment
structure‐property relationships
Styrenes
Taguchi methods
Thermoplastic elastomers
Thermoplastic resins
Thickness
Three dimensional printing
Ultimate tensile strength
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Summary:Currently, material extrusion‐based additive manufacturing (MEAM) is an advanced fabrication technique for polymeric materials. However, MEAM feedstocks typically rely on amorphous thermoplastics and hence it suffers from limitation of compatible polymers. The current work reports the manufacturing of MEAM compatible new thermoplastic elastomers (TPEs) from acrylonitrile butadiene styrene (ABS) and styrene‐(ethylene‐butylene)‐styrene (SEBS) block copolymer blends which allow the designing of tailorable TPEs. Printability and mechanical properties of several ABS/SEBS (w/w) compositions were investigated. Interestingly, it was revealed that only 40 ABS/60 SEBS (w/w) blend possesses elastomeric properties in terms of strain at break (~550%) and tension set values (~10%). The effect of print layer thickness, orientation of printing, and infill degree on mechanical and TPE properties of the printed parts were studied theoretically by exploiting the Taguchi method. The infill degree has a significant influence on the mechanical performance whereas a slight effect was found by varying the layer thickness. Finally, the performance of the additive manufactured TPE were compared with conventional compression molded TPE specimens. As expected, lower values of ultimate tensile strength, Young's modulus, and strain at break of the additive manufactured sample were obtained as compared to the molded samples. However, no major variation could be found in the dynamic moduli, loss tangent, and absolute value of complex viscosity.
ISSN:0021-8995
1097-4628
DOI:10.1002/app.53039