Experimental, Computational, and Dimensional Analysis of the Mechanical Performance of Fused Filament Fabrication Parts.

Process parameters in Additive Manufacturing (AM) are key factors in the mechanical performance of 3D-printed parts. In order to study their effect, a three-zone model based on the printing pattern was developed. This modelization distinguished three different zones of the 3D-printed part, namely cover, contour, and inner; each zone was treated as a different material.

Strain Localization of Orthotropic Elasto-Plastic Cohesive-Frictional Materials: Analytical Results and Numerical Verification.

Strain localization analysis for orthotropic-associated plasticity in cohesive-frictional materials is addressed in this work. Specifically, the localization condition is derived from Maxwell's kinematics, the plastic flow rule and the boundedness of stress rates. The analysis is applicable to strong and regularized discontinuity settings.

Strain Localization of Elastic-Damaging Frictional-Cohesive Materials: Analytical Results and Numerical Verification.

Damage-induced strain softening is of vital importance for the modeling of localized failure in frictional-cohesive materials. This paper addresses strain localization of damaging solids and the resulting consistent frictional-cohesive crack models. As a supplement to the framework recently established for stress-based continuum material models in rate form (Wu and Cervera 2015, 2016), several classical strain-based damage models, expressed usually in total and secant format, are considered.

An Energy-Equivalent d⁺/d Damage Model with Enhanced Microcrack Closure-Reopening Capabilities for Cohesive-Frictional Materials.

In this paper, an energy-equivalent orthotropic ⁺/ damage model for cohesive-frictional materials is formulated. Two essential mechanical features are addressed, the damage-induced anisotropy and the microcrack closure-reopening (MCR) effects, in order to provide an enhancement of the original ⁺/ model proposed by Faria et al. 1998, while keeping its high algorithmic efficiency unaltered.