In the recent years utilization of polymeric materials increased due to their good mechanical properties and easy manufacturing. Starting from automotive industry up to food industry polymeric materials are used for obtaining components by molding or by machining. Taking into account the wide range of applications, it is important to know the mechanical behavior of the materials in different loading conditions. Rapid Prototyping Techniques (RPT) are widely used to produce objects with good dimensional accuracy, surface roughness and material strength by adding the material layer by layer. Though there are many types of RP techniques used to produce a product, in this work Fused Deposition Modeling (FDM) technique is selected as one of the manufacturing system. ABS polymer material is used as raw material for the parts produced by FDM process. Therefore, this work mainly focused on various mechanical properties of parts made of ABS and manufactured by FDM process. The ABS specimens are prepared as per ASTM standards. These specimens are tested for tensile test and bending test and results are tabulated. Finally the stresses are calculated with the variation of elongation at various applied loads.
