Additive Manufacturing and Textiles—State-of-the-Art

Applied Sciences

AberaKechi Kabish¹  DerejeBerihun Sitotaw¹  Dustin Ahrendt²  Yordan Kyosev² 

[1] Ethiopian Institute of Textile and Fashion Technology, Bahir Dar University, Bahir Dar 1037, Ethiopia;Institute of Textile Machinery and High Performance Material Technology, Chair of Ready-Made Technology, TU Dresden, 01062 Dresden, Germany;

关键词: state of the art;    3D printing;    textiles;    textile industry;    additive manufacturing;    materials;   

DOI  :  10.3390/app10155033

来源: DOAJ

【 摘 要 】

The application of additive manufacturing, well known as 3D printing, in textile industry is not more totally new. It allows is giving significant increase of the product variety, production stages reduction, widens the application areas of textiles, customization of design and properties of products according to the type of applications requirement. This paper presents a review of the current state-of-the-art, related to complete process of additive manufacturing. Beginning with the design tools, the classical machinery building computer-aided design (CAD) software, the novel non-uniform rational B-spline (NURBS) based software and parametric created models are reported. Short overview of the materials demonstrates that in this area few thermoplastic materials become standards and currently a lot of research for the application of new materials is going. Three types of 3D printing, depending on the relation to textiles, are identified and reported from the literature—3D printing on textiles, 3D printing of flexible structures and 3D printing with flexible materials. Several applications with all these methods are reported and finally the main advantages and disadvantages of the 3D printing in relation to textile industry are given.

【 授权许可】

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