Improvement of the Geometric Accuracy for Microstructures by Projection Stereolithography Additive Manufacturing
Projection stereolithography creates 3D structures by projecting patterns onto the surface of a photosensitive material layer by layer. Benefiting from high efficiency and resolution, projection stereolithography 3D printing has been widely used to fabricate microstructures. To improve the geometric...
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| author | Cheng Wen Zhengda Chen Zhuoxi Chen Bin Zhang Zhicheng Cheng Hao Yi Guiyun Jiang Jigang Huang |
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| description | Projection stereolithography creates 3D structures by projecting patterns onto the surface of a photosensitive material layer by layer. Benefiting from high efficiency and resolution, projection stereolithography 3D printing has been widely used to fabricate microstructures. To improve the geometric accuracy of projection stereolithography 3D printing for microstructures, a compensation method based on structure optimization is proposed according to mathematical analysis and simulation tests. The performance of the proposed compensation method is verified both by the simulation and the 3D printing experiments. The results indicate that the proposed compensation method is able to significantly improve the shape accuracy and reduce the error of the feature size. The proposed compensation method is also proved to improve the dimension accuracy by 21.7%, 16.5% and 19.6% for the circular, square and triangular bosses respectively. While the improvements on the dimension accuracy by 16%, 17.6% and 13.8% for the circular, square and triangular holes are achieved with the proposed compensation method. This work is expected to provide a method to improve the geometric accuracy for 3D printing microstructures by projection stereolithography. |
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| spelling | doaj.art-25d2559e91c4433e92819988a4b4e17a2023-11-23T16:12:24ZengMDPI AGCrystals2073-43522022-06-0112681910.3390/cryst12060819Improvement of the Geometric Accuracy for Microstructures by Projection Stereolithography Additive ManufacturingCheng Wen0Zhengda Chen1Zhuoxi Chen2Bin Zhang3Zhicheng Cheng4Hao Yi5Guiyun Jiang6Jigang Huang7School of Mechanical Engineering, Sichuan University, Chengdu 610065, ChinaSchool of Mechanical Engineering, Sichuan University, Chengdu 610065, ChinaSchool of Mechanical Engineering, Sichuan University, Chengdu 610065, ChinaSchool of Mechanical Engineering, Sichuan University, Chengdu 610065, ChinaSchool of Mechanical Engineering, Sichuan University, Chengdu 610065, ChinaCollege of Mechanical and Vehicle Engineering, Chongqing University, Chongqing 400030, ChinaCollege of Mechanical and Vehicle Engineering, Chongqing University, Chongqing 400030, ChinaSchool of Mechanical Engineering, Sichuan University, Chengdu 610065, ChinaProjection stereolithography creates 3D structures by projecting patterns onto the surface of a photosensitive material layer by layer. Benefiting from high efficiency and resolution, projection stereolithography 3D printing has been widely used to fabricate microstructures. To improve the geometric accuracy of projection stereolithography 3D printing for microstructures, a compensation method based on structure optimization is proposed according to mathematical analysis and simulation tests. The performance of the proposed compensation method is verified both by the simulation and the 3D printing experiments. The results indicate that the proposed compensation method is able to significantly improve the shape accuracy and reduce the error of the feature size. The proposed compensation method is also proved to improve the dimension accuracy by 21.7%, 16.5% and 19.6% for the circular, square and triangular bosses respectively. While the improvements on the dimension accuracy by 16%, 17.6% and 13.8% for the circular, square and triangular holes are achieved with the proposed compensation method. This work is expected to provide a method to improve the geometric accuracy for 3D printing microstructures by projection stereolithography.https://www.mdpi.com/2073-4352/12/6/819projection stereolithographygeometric accuracy3D printing |
| spellingShingle | Cheng Wen Zhengda Chen Zhuoxi Chen Bin Zhang Zhicheng Cheng Hao Yi Guiyun Jiang Jigang Huang Improvement of the Geometric Accuracy for Microstructures by Projection Stereolithography Additive Manufacturing Crystals projection stereolithography geometric accuracy 3D printing |
| title | Improvement of the Geometric Accuracy for Microstructures by Projection Stereolithography Additive Manufacturing |
| title_full | Improvement of the Geometric Accuracy for Microstructures by Projection Stereolithography Additive Manufacturing |
| title_fullStr | Improvement of the Geometric Accuracy for Microstructures by Projection Stereolithography Additive Manufacturing |
| title_full_unstemmed | Improvement of the Geometric Accuracy for Microstructures by Projection Stereolithography Additive Manufacturing |
| title_short | Improvement of the Geometric Accuracy for Microstructures by Projection Stereolithography Additive Manufacturing |
| title_sort | improvement of the geometric accuracy for microstructures by projection stereolithography additive manufacturing |
| topic | projection stereolithography geometric accuracy 3D printing |
| url | https://www.mdpi.com/2073-4352/12/6/819 |
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