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ORIGINAL RESEARCH ARTICLE

Additive manufacturing of continuous carbon fiber-reinforced silicon carbide composite by fused filament fabrication and precursor infiltration pyrolysis

Xiang Nie1 ,  Siqi Wu1 ,  Lei Yang1,2 ,  Chunze Yan1* ,  Yusheng Shi1
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1 State Key Laboratory of Materials Processing and Die and Mould Technology, School of Materials Science and Engineering, Huazhong University of Science and Technology, 430074, China
2 Department of Mechanical Design and Manufacturing, School of Transportation and Logistics Engineering, Wuhan University of Technology, Wuhan, 430070, China
MSAM 2023, 2(3), 1604 https://doi.org/10.36922/msam.1604
Submitted: 15 August 2023 | Accepted: 8 September 2023 | Published: 27 September 2023
© 2023 by the Author(s). This article is an open access article distributed under the terms and conditions of the Creative Commons Attribution 4.0 International License ( https://creativecommons.org/licenses/by/4.0/ )
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Abstract

Continuous fiber reinforced silicon carbide composites (Cf/SiC) are known for their advantages such as high strength, high modulus, high thermal conductivity, and low density. In this paper, we propose an integrated Cf/SiC preparation and processing process. The continuous carbon fiber-reinforced resin matrix composite green parts were processed by fused filament fabrication, and then ceramicized by precursor infiltration pyrolysis process. The processing parameters of the green parts, the performance of the green-part specimens, the phase evolution in the post treatment, and the performance of Cf/SiC samples were investigated. The infill line distance (ILD) had a huge influence on the mechanical properties of green parts and Cf/SiC. The bending strength of the green parts and the Cf/SiC specimens increased with the decrease in ILD. The maximum bending strength of 169.48 MPa and 155.83 MPa was achieved for the carbon fiber/polyethylene terephthalate glycol (Cf/PETG) and polylactic acid (Cf/PLA) green parts, respectively. The highest bending strength of 47.73 MPa of the Cf/SiC material was obtained with the Cf/PLA green parts, while the bending strength of 93.79 MPa was obtained for the Cf/SiC with Cf/PETG green parts. The increase in mechanical properties was believed to result from the pyrolyzed carbon brought by PETG and the increase of the equivalent fiber density within the single layer after a larger nozzle size was used.

Keywords
Additive manufacturing
Continuous fiber
Resin composites
Precursor infiltration pyrolysis
Silicon carbide composites
Funding
This work was supported by the Key Research and Development Plan of Hubei Province (2021BAA211 and 2022BAA030), and the National Natural Science Foundation of China (No. 52235008 and U203720003).
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The authors declare that they have no known competing financial interests or personal relationships that could have appeared to influence the work reported in this paper.
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