About this Abstract |
| Meeting |
2026 TMS Annual Meeting & Exhibition
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| Symposium
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Additive Manufacturing and Innovative Feedstock Processing for Multifunctional Materials
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| Presentation Title |
Infrared Guided Direct Ink Writing of Silicone Based Composite Material |
| Author(s) |
A K M Abirul Haque, Gonzalo Mantilla, Jacob Iller, Asif Hasan Ridoy, Muhammad Shahbaz Rafique, Sheikh Fahad Ferdous, Sayed Mohsin Reza, Ashok Kumar, Ali Ashraf |
| On-Site Speaker (Planned) |
A K M Abirul Haque |
| Abstract Scope |
We are reporting a promising polymer-nanocomposite feedstock and an in-line quality control technique via Infra-Red (IR) Thermography for additive manufacturing. The composite was prepared using a three-roll mill via in situ shear exfoliation of 20 wt% graphite inside a silicone polymer matrix. The printed material was then extruded via direct ink writing onto a heated bed to prepare gyroids. The printed object showed fast curing and excellent shape retention. Thermal images were captured using an IR camera during optimization. The images showed distinctive heat dissipation properties for cured and uncured samples. This thermographic data has potential to be used in training a machine learning model to predict printing quality. The observed high compatibility of this silicone-graphene feedstock and the strong correlation of thermographic profile with the curing process opens opportunities to upscale the additive manufacturing of silicone based biocompatible materials with real time quality control and process optimization. |
| Proceedings Inclusion? |
Planned: |
| Keywords |
Additive Manufacturing, Composites, Polymers |