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Additively manufactured fasteners

Dressler, Amber D.; Scharnberg, William; Abousleiman, Anthony; Harris, Samantha; New, Philip W.

Additive manufacturing (AM) has reached a critical point which enables production of complex, high resolution, custom parts from robust materials. However, traditional fasteners are still use to join these complex parts together. Integrating fasteners into additively manufactured parts is beneficial for part production but there is uncertainty in their design. To understand how the fasteners fit and function, mechanical property data was collected on the prototypes. This data along with insights gained while building and testing the prototypes increased the knowledge base of design for additive manufacturing and build-to-build variability in selective laser sintering (SLS).