Properties of oriented carbon fiber/polyamide 12 composite parts fabricated by fused deposition modeling

Abstract This paper reports the thermal and mechanical properties of carbon fiber (CF) reinforced polyamide 12 (PA12) composites for fused deposition modeling (FDM) process. The printable filaments of carbon fiber/PA12 composites with different mass fraction were fabricated and applied in FDM. The results indicate that the tensile strength and flexural strength of 10 wt% CF/PA12 composites are enhanced by 102.2% and 251.1% respectively. The laser-flash diffusivity analysis measurements exhibit remarkable improvements on thermal conductivity (λ) of carbon fiber/PA12 composites. Moreover, the carbon fiber/PA12 composites mechanical properties are greatly improved. Our work presents a kind of anisotropic high performance composite for FDM.

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