Investigations on material extrusion process for zirconia filled with a partially bio-based polymer
Delphine AUZENE, Marwa ABID, Mohamed BOUDIFA, Sébastien CHARLON, Luc ORDINSKI, Marie-France LACRAMPE, Thierry BARRIERE
Abstract. Material Extrusion (MEX) has become an attractive technique for producing filaments for additive manufacturing of complex, low-volume, customized parts. It is an innovative approach to manufacturing ceramic or metal parts by extruding and depositing layer by layer a hot filament made from granules (raw material) or composite filaments. The printed parts are then debinded and sintered to produce the final parts. In this work, a new environmentally friendly raw material was developed from zirconia and partially biobased polymers. Models describing the thermal degradation of polymers were used to calculate the activation energy associated with debinding, and to design the optimal thermal debinding program based on thermogravimetric analysis (TGA). Finally, digital imaging and X-ray tomography were used to characterize the internal morphology of sintered parts.
Keywords
Material Extrusion, 3D Printing, Additive Manufacturing, Ceramic, Zirconia, Bio-Based Binders, Debinding, Sintering
Published online 5/7/2025, 8 pages
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Published under license by Materials Research Forum LLC., Millersville PA, USA
Citation: Delphine AUZENE, Marwa ABID, Mohamed BOUDIFA, Sébastien CHARLON, Luc ORDINSKI, Marie-France LACRAMPE, Thierry BARRIERE, Investigations on material extrusion process for zirconia filled with a partially bio-based polymer, Materials Research Proceedings, Vol. 54, pp 322-329, 2025
DOI: https://doi.org/10.21741/9781644903599-35
The article was published as article 35 of the book Material Forming
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