Cesar Bacca Author
Subjects of specialization
Affiliation
Additive manufacturing, Biopolymers
Universidad Nacional de Colombia, Colombia
César Bacca is a professional with projection in the use of agricultural resources as a sustainable source for obtaining materials, products and supplying energy demands. Master’s degree and specialization studies focused on additive manufacturing, with biopolymers applied in the biomedical sector, use of polysaccharides to obtain packaging, alternative energies in agricultural centers, and mechanical design for food processing
Special Issue Article Open Access
Author(s): Cesar Bacca
In the research carried out for the development of a robotic additive manufacturing process, rectangular prisms were manufactured from a biopolymer composed of water, glycerin and corn starch. In a first stage, experimental test benches were implemented to select the extruder components and also to define the raw material combination: starch percentage (15%, 20% and 25%) and glycerin percentage (0%, 15% and 30%). The material was extruded at two pressure levels and at five extruder speed levels, obtaining extrusion speed ranges, the rate of extruded material and the extrusion diameter of the material. In a second stage, these parameters were adapted to control the positioning of the extruded material by means of an 8DOF robotic platform, and thus define impressions with lattice-type sha... view moreĀ»