Communications - Scientific Letters of the University of Zilina 2023, 25(2):B140-B156 | DOI: 10.26552/com.C.2023.038

Development of a Prototype of a Protective UV-C Half-Face Mask with Implementation of Additive Technology

Daniel Varecha ORCID...1, *, Ján Galík ORCID...1, František Brumerčík ORCID...2, Róbert Kohár ORCID...2, Rudolf Madaj ORCID...2, Mário Drbúl ORCID...3, Adam Glowacz ORCID...4, Witold Glowacz ORCID...4, Hui Liu ORCID...5
1 Research and Service Centre, Faculty of Mechanical Engineering, University of Zilina, Zilina, Slovakia
2 Department of Design and Mechanical Elements, Faculty of Mechanical Engineering, University of Zilina, Zilina, Slovakia
3 Department of Machining and Production Technology, Faculty of Mechanical Engineering, University of Zilina, Zilina, Slovakia
4 Department of Automatic Control and Robotics, Faculty of Electrical Engineering, Automatics, Computer Science and Biomedical Engineering, AGH University of Science and Technology, Krakow, Poland
5 College of Quality and Safety Engineering, China Jiliang University, Hangzhou, China

The authors of this manuscript present development of a prototype protective UV-C half-face mask. The first stage of this study focuses on proposing a UV-C half-face mask design and the second phase investigates the quality of printings, 3D/2D roughness and porousness of three different printed samples of PA12. Development of the protective half-face mask used the non-destructive technology of 3D scanning of the human body by the Ein Scan scanner. As a part of the experiment, three samples were prepared with Sinterit Lisa, EOS Formiga and HP jet fusion printers. SLS and MJF technology were used during the experiment. The experimental observation of the structure of the surface was secured using the Alicona Infinite focus G5 device. The conclusions present the study's results and the authors' recommendations for other developers dealing with the development of the protective face masks.

Keywords: rapid prototyping, photogrammetry-3D projection additive manufacturing, 2D/3D roughness of PA12, selective laser sintering (SLS) multi-jet fusion (MJF)
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This article was funded by the University of Zilina project 313011ASY4 “Strategic implementation of additive technologies to strengthen the intervention capacities of emergencies caused by the COVID - 19 pandemic”.

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The authors declare that they have no known competing financial interests or personal relationships that could have appeared to influence the work reported in this paper.

Received: February 16, 2023; Accepted: March 28, 2023; Prepublished online: March 29, 2023; Published: April 6, 2023  Show citation

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Varecha, D., Galík, J., Brumerčík, F., Kohár, R., Madaj, R., Drbúl, M., ... Liu, H. (2023). Development of a Prototype of a Protective UV-C Half-Face Mask with Implementation of Additive Technology. Communications - Scientific Letters of the University of Zilina, 25(2), B140-156. doi: 10.26552/com.C.2023.038
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