Binder Jetting Additive Manufacturing of Ceramics: A Literature Review

Abstract

Ceramic materials are more difficult to process than metals and polymers using additive manufacturing technologies because of their high melting temperature, high hardness and brittleness. Binder jetting additive manufacturing has been used to fabricate ceramic parts for various applications. This paper presents a literature review on recent advances in ceramic binder jetting. The paper begins with listing applications and material properties investigated in reported studies followed by the effects of raw materials and process parameters on resultant material properties. Raw materials include binder (material, application method, concentration, and saturation) and ceramic feedstock (preparation method, quality metrics, and particle size and shape), and process parameters include layer thickness and postprocessing method. Resultant material properties of interest include density, strength, hardness, and toughness. This review will provide guidance for the selection of raw materials and process parameters to obtain desired material properties for various applications. This paper is concluded by proposing future research directions.

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“…The third one, binder jetting, occasionally known as (indirect) 3D printing, is outlined by ASTM as an additive manufacturing technique in which a liquid bonding agent is selectively precipitated to bind the powder components. Table 1 demonstrates the key elements of a binder jetting (BJ) device, including the powder roller, powder stock, build platform, powder bed, binder cartridge, and inkjet print-head [24,47]. The printing approach functions as follows: initially, the powder roller develops a thin film of powder from the powder stock onto the develop system, creating the powder bed.…”

“…The completed component, known as the green component, is subsequently split up from the loose powder. The post-handling actions are curing, debinding, sintering, and recommended compaction [24,47].…”

“…The 3D printing approaches developed in recent years can be traced back to the 1980s when the earliest SLA techniques were presented by Charles Hull [26,29], and in 1988, 3D systems launched from the commercial perspective with the accessible 3D printer, the SLA-250 [29][30][31][32][33][34][35] as shown in Figure 2. bed fusion (selective laser sintering (SLS), selective laser melting (SLM)), binder jetting, or indirect 3D printing, sheet lamination, directed energy deposition, material extrusion, and material jetting are the various types of additive manufacturing (AM) [17][18][19][20][21][22][23][24][25][26][27][28]. The 3D printing approaches developed in recent years can be traced back to the 1980s when the earliest SLA techniques were presented by Charles Hull [26,29], and in 1988, 3D systems launched from the commercial perspective with the accessible 3D printer, the SLA-250 [29][30][31][32][33][34][35] as shown in Figure 2.…”

The Influence of Printing Parameters, Post-Processing, and Testing Conditions on the Properties of Binder Jetting Additive Manufactured Functional Ceramics

“…Additive manufacturing of three-dimensional ceramics was explored using the techniques of paste extrusion (PE) [13], fused deposition modeling (FDM) [14], stereolithography (SLA) [15], and binder jetting (BJT) [16]. Parts produced through PE usually have high densities at the expense of lower resolutions.…”

Preparation of 3D Printable HAp-based Composite Powder for Binder Jetting Process

“…Binder jetting (BJT) is an AM technology suitable for the production of high complexity 3D components using ceramic or metal precursor powders, with the potential for various applications, wherein a roller mechanism spreads the powder material, forming a bed, and then an inkjet print head moves in the XY plane of the machine selectively jetting the binder agent [14]. In the binder jetting processes, the binder can be applied in three different routes [15]. In the rst one, called binder jetting in place, binder material is diluted in an appropriate solvent, and then jetted onto the powder bed.…”