Long-Term Ageing Effects on Fused Deposition Modeling Parts Manufactured with Ultem*9085

Relating to the direct manufacturing of end-use parts the knowledge about the effect of the long-term ageing of Fused Deposition Modeling (FDM) parts is of particular importance. For this, tensile specimens were stored for time periods of up to 52 weeks in two different conditions and the testing was conducted at different temperatures within a temperature range of -60°C to +160°C. Further tests were made after the exposure in multiple media. The parts were built up with the system “Fortus 400mc” from Stratasys with the material Ultem*9085 in two different build directions, the strongest direction X (on its side) and the weakest build direction Z (upright) and with the standard toolpath parameters of the Insight software version 7.0.