3D-printing with thermoplastics and continuous carbon fiber

Using standard filaments and standard fibers is key to enable industrial scale 3D-printing with continuous carbon fiber reinforcement. The novel printing head for Additive Composite Structures (AddCompSTM) serves this task as one element along the completely new developed process chain for continuous fiber reinforced 3D-printing. Both the AddCompS printing head and the process chain are described within this paper.