• Journal of the Computational Structural Engineering Institute of Korea
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• v.37 no.5
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• pp.309-316
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• 2024

In this paper, additive manufacturing (AM)-structural coupled analysis was proposed to accurately predict the mechanical behavior of 3D printed short-fiber reinforced composite structures. Tensile specimens were printed using a composite 3D printer (Mark Two, Markforged), and tensile tests were conducted on specimens manufactured with various nozzle paths. In addition, a reverse engineering scheme was applied to the experimental data to reasonably derive local anisotropic material properties according to the nozzle paths. Consequently, AM-structural coupled analysis was performed using the enhanced finite element model with mapped local materials properties, and the mechanical behavior of the 3D printed short-fiber reinforced composite was accurately described. To demonstrate the effectiveness of the proposed AM-structural coupled analysis model, the computational results obtained were compared with experimental results.