Rapid Prototyping Journal: Volume 15 Issue 5
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The international journal for research on additive manufacturing and 3D printingTable of contents
Modeling and experimental results of concentration with support material in rapid freeze prototyping
Frances D. Bryant, Ming C. LeuThe purpose of this paper is to develop a physics‐based model that can predict how a main build material of water interacts with a water‐soluble sacrificial support material in…
Accuracy of medical RP models
Timon Mallepree, Diethard BergersThe purpose of this paper is to generate facsimiled rapid prototyping (RP) models for medical analysis that demands an answer about the accuracy of medical models.
A detection and control method of resin liquid‐level of stereolithography apparatus
Yiqing Wang, Wanhua Zhao, Yucheng Ding, Zhongyun He, Bingheng LuThe purpose of this paper is to detect and control the liquid‐level of stereolithography apparatus precisely.
CFPC material characteristics and SLS prototyping process
R. Bruce Floersheim, Gene Hou, Kent FirestoneThe purpose of this paper is to characterize the material properties of carbon fiber polyamide composite (CFPC) used in a 3D rapid prototyping process based upon selective laser…
Rapid manufacture of custom‐fitting surgical guides
Richard Bibb, Dominic Eggbeer, Peter Evans, Alan Bocca, Adrian SugarThe computer‐aided design (CAD) and manufacture of custom‐fitting surgical guides have been shown to provide an accurate means of transferring computer‐aided planning to surgery…
Preparation and selective laser sintering of nylon‐coated metal powders for the indirect SLS process
C.Z. Yan, Y.S. Shi, J.S. Yang, J.H. LiuThe purpose of this paper is to report a new method, the dissolution‐precipitation process, to prepare nylon‐coated metal powders for the indirect selective laser sintering (SLS…
Geometric conformity analysis for automated fabrication processes generating ruled surfaces: demonstration for contour crafting
Zhenghao Yeh, Behrokh KhoshnevisThe purpose of this paper is to present an introduction to geometric conformity principles for examining the geometric deviation between the desired (designed) and the fabricated…
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Emerald Publishing LimitedOpen Access:
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- Professor Ian Gibson