Study of the Thermomechanics of the Additive Manufacturing Process of Biocompatible Products Subject to the Viscoelastic Behavior of the Functional Material Polyetheretherketone

Abstract

This study considers the problem of numerical modeling of the PEEK product’s 3D printing using the FDM technology. The aim of the study is to verify the adequacy of the use of a thermoviscoelastic model for numerical computations of the PEEK deposition process and to develop an algorithm for calculating this process. The Prony model is used to describe the thermoviscoelastic behavior of the material under study; the temperature-time shift is described by the Williams–Landel–Ferry function (WLF). To obtain the values of the material constants of the relaxation function, first, we used data from other authors; however, after their substitution into the numerical simulation, it was not possible to obtain results close to the full-scale experiment. Therefore, realized our own DMA experiment. The algorithm was developed and implemented in the ANSYS package to calculate non-stationary temperature fields and the stress–strain state of the structure during its layer-by-layer deposition. To solve these problems, the technology of “killing” and subsequent “aliving” of the PEEK material, implemented in the ANSYS package, is used. The numerical algorithm is verified with the results of an experiment on printing samples from PEEK. A good consistency of the calculated data with the experiment is shown.

Keywords

• PEEK
• additive manufacturing
• fused deposition modeling
• physical model of material
• material properties
• DMA experiment