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In some additive manufacturing processes, support structures are required while building parts, for structural stability as well as for some functional aspects. Support structure should be designed in a way that it should withstand the weight of the part especially overhanging features of the part to avoid distortion and mishap. This paper deals with design and fabrication of tailored support structures for some special cases. From the understanding obtained through various literature, initially, a broad classification of support structures is presented. Based on that, application-specific support structures were designed. Two different support structures were designed, analyzed and fabricated successfully. After fabrication, support structures were easily removed from the part manually.
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Kumar, H.A., Reginald Elvis, P.F., Manoharan, M., Jayapal, J., Kumaraguru, S. (2020). Tailored Support Structures for Additive Manufacturing. In: Shunmugam, M., Kanthababu, M. (eds) Advances in Additive Manufacturing and Joining. Lecture Notes on Multidisciplinary Industrial Engineering. Springer, Singapore. https://doi.org/10.1007/978-981-32-9433-2_17
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