NUMERICAL MODELLING OF RESINS USED IN STEREOLITOGRAPHY RAPID PROTOTYPING

The presented research deals with the development of the numerical model for resins used for stereolithography (SLA) rapid prototyping. SLA is an additive method of production of models, prototypes, elements or parts of constructions with the use of 3D printing that covers photochemical processes by which light causes chemical monomers to link together to form polymers. Such method is very useful in design visualization, but also can be applied in numerical modelling for the purpose of validation and verification. In this application the resin strength parameters must be described and on the base of them the numerical material model is developed and validated. Such a study for SLA resins was presented in the paper.