High Value Manufacturing: Advanced Research in Virtual and Rapid Prototyping

The fill density was found to be directly proportional

to the stiffness of the scaffold produced and indirectly

proportional to its porosity. The deposition angle strat-

egy followed to manufacture the scaffold was found to

be independent of its porosity and associated with the

Bulk modulus.

Finally, future work will focus on studying the

behaviour of the RepRap machine when manufactur-

ing this kind of scaffolds but with other materials such

as polycaprolactone (PCL).

ACKNOWLEDGEMENTS

The research leading to these results has received fund-

ing from the European Union Seventh Framework

Programme (FP7-PEOPLE-2009) under the grant

agreement IRSES n

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247476.

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