Studies on the optimization of 3d printing process parameters

Abstract

The process of 3D Printing (3DP) gains significance because of its ease of operation, less time consumption, elimination of the finishing process, ability to build any complicated 3D geometries from CAD data with good dimensional accuracy, material availability, colouring ability, ready-to-use prototypes, ability to build final products for some special applications, etc. Since the quality of the built components mainly depends on the mechanical properties of the materials, the optimization of process parameters becomes an important procedure in the 3DP processes. Further, the number of input parameters involved in this built process and the time taken to solve this kind of optimization problem are found to be more. When the classical optimization procedures are found to be inefficient in solving real-world complex problems, the growth rate of non-conventional optimization procedures becomes exponential. Recent publications and articles of many researchers belonging to different fields exhibit the success of the implementation of such non-conventional optimization algorithms. newline