Extended Data Fig. 4: Strength of LCP parts of different thicknesses as a function of print orientation.
From: Three-dimensional printing of hierarchical liquid-crystal-polymer structures
The observed decrease in tensile strength for increasing print orientations follows the decay in elastic modulus predicted from classical laminate theory (Fig. 3a). The lower strength at high orientation angles is also explained by a transition in failure mode from print filament fracture to interface fracture. Error bars indicate the standard deviation for 5–10 measurements at each data point; see Source Data for details.
