Experimental Investigation of the Suitability of 3D Printing for Soil-Continuum Interface Studies
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This paper summarizes the results of an experimental program that investigates the effect of the hardness and printer-induced roughness while using 3D printed prototypes to study the shear behavior of soil-continuum interfaces. Using PLA polymer, different planar continuum material prototypes were fabricated with a fused filament fabrication (FFF) 3D printer. Two different soils, namely sand and clay, were taken, and their interface shear behavior with the 3D printed surfaces was investigated. The interface shear responses of the 3D printed prototypes are compared with those of factory-made commercial smooth HDPE geomembranes to understand the effect of hardness alone. The results show that the secondary roughness and the hardness of the 3D printed continuum materials influenced both clay and sand interfaces, with clay and sand showing an increase in the peak interface friction angles of almost 84% and 22%, respectively, in the 3D printed prototypes when compared to a factory-made geomembrane.
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