Abstract
Low-volume production components represent a possibility to create prototypes from the same process and materials that someone use for the final product and to bring new products to market instead of waiting for final components to arrive from the machine shop. Additive FDM create geometrical products through the deposition of ABS (Acrylonitrile-Butadiene-Styrene) filaments layer by layer satisfying this necessity. Since the specialized literature offers little information on the properties of such plastic materials, in this paper the authors present some experimental procedures in order to evaluate the elastic and mechanical properties of such a plastic material. The specimens have been printed on a 3D “ULTIMAKER –2” printer. Keywords: Acrylonitrile-Butadiene-Styrene, Fused Deposition Modeling, 3D printing, integrated software home manufaturing