Accession Number:
AD1100176
Title:
Fabrication and Measurement of 3D Printed Retroreflective Fibers
Descriptive Note:
Journal Article - Embargoed Full-Text
Corporate Author:
ARMY NATICK SOLDIER RESEARCH DEVELOPMENT AND ENGINEERING CENTER MA NATICK United States
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Report Date:
2019-07-22
Pagination or Media Count:
7.0
Abstract:
Additive manufacturing enables new fiber preform geometries to be built that were either impossible or extremely difficult with traditional subtractive manufacturing methods. Additionally fiber thermal drawing is undergoing an explosion of interest due to new materials and fiber functions. We fabricate a retroreflective fiber that possesses a complex cross-section and material combination not achievable with other textile fiber fabrication methods such melt extrusion. This is the first such 3D-printing-derived fiber to demonstrate optical scattering properties with a non-circular, non-convex cross-section.
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Subject Categories:
- Manufacturing and Industrial Engineering and Control of Production Systems
- Optics