• DOI:10.3791/57538
• Corpus ID: 58655716

Multi-material Ceramic-Based Components - Additive Manufacturing of Black-and-white Zirconia Components by Thermoplastic 3D-Printing (CerAM - T3DP).

@article{Weingarten2019MultimaterialCC,
  title={Multi-material Ceramic-Based Components - Additive Manufacturing of Black-and-white Zirconia Components by Thermoplastic 3D-Printing (CerAM - T3DP).},
  author={Steven Weingarten and Uwe Scheithauer and R Robert Johne and Johannes Abel and Eric Schwarzer and Tassilo Moritz and Alexander Michaelis},
  journal={Journal of visualized experiments : JoVE},
  year={2019},
  volume={143}
}

• S. Weingarten, U. Scheithauer, +4 authors A. Michaelis
• Published 7 January 2019
• Materials Science
• Journal of visualized experiments : JoVE

To combine the benefits of Additive Manufacturing (AM) with the benefits of Functionally Graded Materials (FGM) to ceramic-based 4D components (three dimensions for the geometry and one degree of freedom concerning the material properties at each position) the Thermoplastic 3D-Printing (CerAM - T3DP) was developed. It is a direct AM technology which allows the AM of multi-material components. To demonstrate the advantages of this technology black-and-white zirconia components were additively manufactured and co-sintered defect-free. Two different pairs of black and white zirconia powders were used to prepare different thermoplastic suspensions. Appropriate dispensing parameters were investigated to manufacture single-material test components and adjusted for the additive manufacturing of multi-color zirconia components.