FEM HYPOTHESIS WHICH CAN BE APPLIED FOR FDM APPLICATIONS

Abstract

Nowadays, with the evolution of the additive manufacturing processes and its possibility of usage for industrial applications, the tendency is to adapt, optimize or to develop new concepts for the improvement of functional parts or assemblies characteristics. One important concept is the Finite Element Method which offers the possibility to describe mathematically all the physical phenomena which occurs during the functionality of the parts. The aim of this paper is to present several hypotheses for finite element method which could be applied for the analysis of the parts manufactured through Fused Deposition Modeling, considering also the manufacturing defectives.