Fused Deposition Modeling and Sintering (FDMS) is one of the indirect and emerging processes of Additive Manufacturing (AM) for the production of metal parts, which is a combination of AM process and Metal Injection Molding (MIM). This study laboratory made a raw material (Feed Stock) composing of high percentage of metal powder (particle in nano-scale) and polymeric materials; and then, designed an extruder to simulate melting and extruding process by Computational Fluid Dynamic (CFD). The different variables such as the nozzle diameter (D) of 1, 2, 3 and 4 mm and compression zone length (L2) of 100, 200 and 300 mm were simulated to investigate their impacts on flow rate and required torque to rotate screw. The findings showed that components of feed stock for high physical and mechanical properties of FDMS should account for 55 wt.% of paraffin wax, 25 wt.% of polypropylene, 15 wt.% of carnauba wax and 5 wt.% of stearic acid with optimum percentage of metal powder of 90 wt.%. Also, the optimum value of extruder diameter and compression zone length were 2mm and 200 mm, respectively. Manuscript profile

One of the most challenging issues in DLP 3D printing is separation. Thus, the capability to employ a variety of polymer membranes can considerably aid in the development of the DLP technology. The primary purpose of this study is to thoroughly explore the characteristics influencing separation force and time on the FEP industrial membrane and the proposed PP membrane. Therefore, the impact of image cross section geometry and separation speed on separation force and separation time is investigated. As a consequence, changing the percentage of surface porosity has a negligible effect on the amount of separation force. According to the findings, reducing the cross-sectional area by 1.36% reduced the separation force by 6.5 times. Moreover, the outcomes are consistent with the mathematical model given. the separation force rose by 230% in the FEP membrane with an increase of 96 times of the speed, whereas the separation time decreased by 18.8 times. For the proposed PP membrane, as the speed increases, the separation force rate increases by 175% and the separation time falls by 29.6 times. The aforementioned findings show that the PP film may be used as a practical and affordable solution with quick separation that can reduce printing time when producing three-dimensional lattice pieces at varying speeds. Manuscript profile