Experimental Testing Of Flexural Mechanism Made Using Additive Manufacturing

Abstract

In this work a flexural mechanism are designed using data from the base paper and manufactured using 3d printing and are tested for flexibility, the flexibility is measured in terms of deformation under load and using a graph sheet setup, for fabricate the mechanism poly-lactic acid material is used, and is fabricated on a 3D printer, these models are developed using Catia v5. The results are validated using Ansys simulation results.for making the specimen’s printable there are scaled to 25%(75 mm) of their original size (300mm).