Reliability Testing of 3D-Printed Polyamide Actuators

Gokce Kasap; Yigit Daghan Gokdel; Mustafa Berke Yelten; Onur Ferhanoglu

doi:10.1109/TDMR.2020.2966043

Reliability Testing of 3D-Printed Polyamide Actuators

Gokce Kasap^*, Yigit Daghan Gokdel, Mustafa Berke Yelten, Onur Ferhanoglu

^*Corresponding author for this work

Department of Electronics and Communication Engineering

Istanbul Technical University

Research output: Contribution to journal › Article › peer-review

7 Citations (Scopus)

Abstract

3D printing is a rapidly emerging low-cost, high-yield, and high-speed manufacturing technique that has already been utilized in fabricating sensor and actuator devices. Here we investigate the cyclic fatigue and the effect of heating on 10 \times 10 mm2-sized, 3D-printed polyamide-based laser scanning electromagnetic actuators, which are intended for integration with miniaturized laser-scanning imagers to yield a wide variety of optical imaging modalities. The tested actuators offer compact sizes and high-scan angles, comparable to their MEMS counterparts. We have tested N = 15 devices, at 5 different total optical scan angles between 40° - 80°, and observed their lifetimes (up to 108 cycles ≈ 10 days each), as well as the variability in their scan angle and mechanical resonance. A selected scanner was also tested under increased temperature conditions up to 60 °C for 10 hours, showing no sign of fatigue when returned to room temperature. Overall, it is concluded that 3D printed polymeric actuators are promising low-cost alternatives for short-term use in disposable opto-medical imaging units.

Original language	English
Article number	8957404
Pages (from-to)	152-156
Number of pages	5
Journal	IEEE Transactions on Device and Materials Reliability
Volume	20
Issue number	1
DOIs	https://doi.org/10.1109/TDMR.2020.2966043
Publication status	Published - Mar 2020

Bibliographical note

Publisher Copyright:
© 2001-2011 IEEE.

Funding

Manuscript received December 23, 2019; accepted January 8, 2020. Date of publication January 13, 2020; date of current version March 6, 2020. This work was supported by the Technological Research Council of Turkey under the project TÜB˙TAK 1001 117E235. (Corresponding author: Mustafa Berke Yelten.) Gökçe Kasap, Mustafa Berke Yelten, and Onur Ferhanog˘lu are with the Department of Electronics and Communications Engineering, Istanbul Technical University, Istanbul 34469, Turkey (e-mail: [email protected]; [email protected]; [email protected]).

Funders	Funder number
Technological Research Council of Turkey	TÜB˙TAK 1001 117E235

Keywords

biomedical optical imaging
fatigue
lifetime estimation
magnetic actuators
materials reliability
Three-dimensional printing

UN SDGs

This output contributes to the following UN Sustainable Development Goals (SDGs)

Access to Document

10.1109/TDMR.2020.2966043

Cite this

@article{7e5657afd9b64c57a37692c5f81cd0a3,

title = "Reliability Testing of 3D-Printed Polyamide Actuators",

abstract = "3D printing is a rapidly emerging low-cost, high-yield, and high-speed manufacturing technique that has already been utilized in fabricating sensor and actuator devices. Here we investigate the cyclic fatigue and the effect of heating on 10 \times 10 mm2-sized, 3D-printed polyamide-based laser scanning electromagnetic actuators, which are intended for integration with miniaturized laser-scanning imagers to yield a wide variety of optical imaging modalities. The tested actuators offer compact sizes and high-scan angles, comparable to their MEMS counterparts. We have tested N = 15 devices, at 5 different total optical scan angles between 40° - 80°, and observed their lifetimes (up to 108 cycles ≈ 10 days each), as well as the variability in their scan angle and mechanical resonance. A selected scanner was also tested under increased temperature conditions up to 60 °C for 10 hours, showing no sign of fatigue when returned to room temperature. Overall, it is concluded that 3D printed polymeric actuators are promising low-cost alternatives for short-term use in disposable opto-medical imaging units.",

keywords = "biomedical optical imaging, fatigue, lifetime estimation, magnetic actuators, materials reliability, Three-dimensional printing",

author = "Gokce Kasap and Gokdel, {Yigit Daghan} and Yelten, {Mustafa Berke} and Onur Ferhanoglu",

note = "Publisher Copyright: {\textcopyright} 2001-2011 IEEE.",

year = "2020",

month = mar,

doi = "10.1109/TDMR.2020.2966043",

language = "English",

volume = "20",

pages = "152--156",

journal = "IEEE Transactions on Device and Materials Reliability",

issn = "1530-4388",

publisher = "Institute of Electrical and Electronics Engineers Inc.",

number = "1",

}

TY - JOUR

T1 - Reliability Testing of 3D-Printed Polyamide Actuators

AU - Kasap, Gokce

AU - Gokdel, Yigit Daghan

AU - Yelten, Mustafa Berke

AU - Ferhanoglu, Onur

PY - 2020/3

Y1 - 2020/3

N2 - 3D printing is a rapidly emerging low-cost, high-yield, and high-speed manufacturing technique that has already been utilized in fabricating sensor and actuator devices. Here we investigate the cyclic fatigue and the effect of heating on 10 \times 10 mm2-sized, 3D-printed polyamide-based laser scanning electromagnetic actuators, which are intended for integration with miniaturized laser-scanning imagers to yield a wide variety of optical imaging modalities. The tested actuators offer compact sizes and high-scan angles, comparable to their MEMS counterparts. We have tested N = 15 devices, at 5 different total optical scan angles between 40° - 80°, and observed their lifetimes (up to 108 cycles ≈ 10 days each), as well as the variability in their scan angle and mechanical resonance. A selected scanner was also tested under increased temperature conditions up to 60 °C for 10 hours, showing no sign of fatigue when returned to room temperature. Overall, it is concluded that 3D printed polymeric actuators are promising low-cost alternatives for short-term use in disposable opto-medical imaging units.

AB - 3D printing is a rapidly emerging low-cost, high-yield, and high-speed manufacturing technique that has already been utilized in fabricating sensor and actuator devices. Here we investigate the cyclic fatigue and the effect of heating on 10 \times 10 mm2-sized, 3D-printed polyamide-based laser scanning electromagnetic actuators, which are intended for integration with miniaturized laser-scanning imagers to yield a wide variety of optical imaging modalities. The tested actuators offer compact sizes and high-scan angles, comparable to their MEMS counterparts. We have tested N = 15 devices, at 5 different total optical scan angles between 40° - 80°, and observed their lifetimes (up to 108 cycles ≈ 10 days each), as well as the variability in their scan angle and mechanical resonance. A selected scanner was also tested under increased temperature conditions up to 60 °C for 10 hours, showing no sign of fatigue when returned to room temperature. Overall, it is concluded that 3D printed polymeric actuators are promising low-cost alternatives for short-term use in disposable opto-medical imaging units.

KW - biomedical optical imaging

KW - fatigue

KW - lifetime estimation

KW - magnetic actuators

KW - materials reliability

KW - Three-dimensional printing

UR - http://www.scopus.com/inward/record.url?scp=85082142037&partnerID=8YFLogxK

U2 - 10.1109/TDMR.2020.2966043

DO - 10.1109/TDMR.2020.2966043

M3 - Article

AN - SCOPUS:85082142037

SN - 1530-4388

VL - 20

SP - 152

EP - 156

JO - IEEE Transactions on Device and Materials Reliability

JF - IEEE Transactions on Device and Materials Reliability

IS - 1

M1 - 8957404

ER -

Reliability Testing of 3D-Printed Polyamide Actuators

Abstract

Bibliographical note

Funding

Keywords

UN SDGs

Access to Document

Other files and links

Fingerprint

Cite this