Rapid Prototyping Journal: Volume 10 Issue 4

Development of translucent FDM parts by post‐processing

Sung‐Hoon Ahn, Caroline S. Lee, Woobyok Jeong

Rapid prototyping (RP) technologies provide the ability to fabricate initial prototypes from various model materials. Stratasys' fused deposition modeling (FDM) is a typical RP…

Rapid prototyping with ceramic‐filled epoxy resin by optoforming

Martin Augsburg, Sebastian Storch, Florian Nissen, Gerd Witt

Optoforming is meant to be a potential substitution for the established Stereolithography (SLA) process. Its potential is that different ceramic‐filled photo‐curable epoxy‐resins…

Investigating critical design characteristics through experimental testing of photopolymeric models

D. Karalekas

Engineering design optimisation of products and investigating the influence of various critical design parameters on their operational performance has been a complex task. Despite…

RP of Si3N4 burner arrays via assembly mould SDM

Hao‐Chih Liu, Sunyoup Lee, Sangkyun Kang, Christopher F. Edwards, Fritz B. Prinz

A rapid prototyping process applying ceramic gelcasting and assembly mould shape deposition manufacturing has been developed to fabricate mesoscale silicon nitride components with…

Digital modelling and stereolithographic production of a Homo Erectus skull

François Pérès, Farid Taha, Marie‐Antoinette de Lumley, Emmanuel Cabanis

The National Museum of Natural History has been carrying out, over the last several years, a study of hominid fossil skulls, which have been discovered in different regions of the…

Stereolithography assisted redesign and optimisation of a dishwasher spraying arm

V. Dedoussis, J. Giannatsis

The aim of this paper is to show how models fabricated via stereolithography (SL) served as “functional prototypes” for the redesign and optimisation of the spraying arm of a…

Compression testing of layer manufactured metal parts: the RAPTIA compression benchmark

K.W. Dalgarno, R.D. Goodridge

This paper reports the results of a compression test benchmarking study carried out to investigate the mechanical properties of layer manufactured metal components in order to…