Industrial use of additive manufacturing (often referred to as 3D printing) for end-use parts in polymer materials is increasing. There are many recent developments regarding materials, machines and software for numerical simulations. However, there are still challenges, e.g., when it comes to predi...

Thermal management is important for medical ultrasound probes to maintain optimal performance, reliability, and lifetime of the devices, as well as to avoid heat-induced damage to the patients’ tissue. This paper presents heat transfer simulations of the scan head of a trans-esophageal echocardiogra...

Fiber orientation in film gated injection-molded rectangular plates was characterized using micro computed tomography. Polyamide 12 materials with 15, 30, and 50 wt% glass fibers were used in this study. For all three materials, the typical core-shell layer structure of fiber orientation was ob...

Thermal management is important for medical ultrasound probes to maintain optimal performance, reliability, and lifetime of the devices, as well as to avoid heat-induced damage to the patients’ tissue. This paper presents heat transfer simulations of the scan head of a trans-esophageal echocardiogra...

Flat tensile specimens were produced from IN718 in SLM280 powder bed fusion machine. The specimens were arranged from flat to perpendicular positions on the build plate with 15° intervals. Support structures were used for all samples to facilitate slant printing and minimization of sample distortion...