“…Thermoplastic resin can be heated and melted when given an increased temperature and retains the original properties after consolidation [4]. Therefore, a number of rapid manufacturing techniques, e.g., automatic fiber laying (AFP) [5], automatic tape layering (ATL) [6], compression molding [7], pultrude molding [8], etc., can be applied on TPCs to form structures with complex configurations within a short processing time [9]. Among them, additive manufacturing (AM), or 3D printing, is considered one of the most advanced techniques, which significantly improves structural design flexibility [10,11].…”