Emphasis has shifted from the "doomed" organ concept of an exposed pulp to one of hope and recovery. The era of vital-pulp therapy has been greatly enhanced with the introduction of various pulp capping materials. The aim of this article is to summarize and discuss about the various and newer pulp capping materials used for protection of the dentin-pulp complex.
Tolerancing decisions can profoundly impact the quality and cost of the mechanism. To evaluate the impact of tolerance on mechanism quality, designers need to simulate the influences of tolerances with respect to the functional requirements. This paper proposes a mathematical formulation of tolerance analysis which integrates the notion of quantifier: ''For all acceptable deviations (deviations which are inside tolerances), there exists a gap configuration such as the assembly requirements and the behavior constraints are verified'' & ''For all acceptable deviations (deviations which are inside tolerances), and for all admissible gap configurations, the assembly and functional requirements and the behavior constraints are verified''. The quantifiers provide a univocal expression of the condition corresponding to a geometrical product requirement. This opens a wide area for research in tolerance analysis. To solve the mechanical problem, an approach based on optimization is proposed. Monte Carlo simulation is implemented for the statistical analysis. The proposed approach is tested on an over-constrained mechanism.
Purpose
This paper aims to discuss the effect of changes of a comprehensive list of process parameters on part scalability and tensile strength of fused filament fabrication (FFF) printed parts. A number of parameters hitherto not studied such as cross-sectional area and its interaction with number of shells and infill density are presented and studied.
Design/methodology/approach
From a preliminary investigation, results have shown that varying the process parameters affects the ultimate tensile strength (UTS) of a FFF printed component, with component scale and number of shells as the two most significant parameters affecting the UTS. A further investigation based on the interactions of four process parameters, specimen width, b, specimen thickness, h, number of shells, n, and infill density, i, and their effects on the UTS was performed. Taguchi’s design of experiment was used to develop an experimental plan in this investigation. Specimens were printed and tested for their tensile strength until fracture and the results analyzed.
Findings
Results obtained support an inverse relationship between part scalability, change in cross-sectional area and the UTS of a FFF printed part. The UTS results were calculated in line with conventional method based on the gross cross-sectional area of A = (b × h).
Originality/value
The paper investigates the effect of part scalability on the UTS of FFF printed parts and evaluates the conventional method of calculating material tensile strength of FFF printed parts using the gross cross-sectional area of A = (b × h). The results of this findings show that the conventional method cannot be used as FFF printed parts consists of partially filled parts and not a solid component.
A novel
self-healable, fully reprocessable, and inkjet three-dimensional
(3D) printable partially biobased elastomer is reported in this work.
A long-chain unsaturated diacrylate monomer was first synthesized
from canola oil and then cross-linked with a partially oxidized silicon-based
copolymer containing free thiol groups and disulfide bonds. The elastomer
is fabricated through inkjet 3D printing utilizing the photoinitiated
thiol-ene click chemistry and reprocessed by compression molding exploiting
the dynamic nature of disulfide bond. Self-healing is enabled by phosphine-catalyzed
disulfide metathesis. The elastomer displayed a tensile strength of
∼52 kPa, a breaking strain of ∼24, and ∼86% healing
efficiency at 80 °C temperature after 8 h. Moreover, the elastomer
showed excellent thermal stability, and the highest thermal degradation
temperature was recorded to be ∼524 °C. After reprocessing
through compression molding, the elastomer fully recovered its mechanical
and thermal properties. These properties of the elastomer yield an
ecofriendly alternative of fossil fuel-based elastomers that can find
broad applications in soft robotics, flexible wearable devices, strain
sensors, health care, and next-generation energy-harvesting and -storage
devices.
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