Rapid Prototyping Journal: Volume 18 Issue 6

Quantitative assessments of geometric errors for rapid prototyping in medical applications

Cristobal Arrieta, Sergio Uribe, Jorge Ramos‐Grez, Alex Vargas, Pablo Irarrazaval, Vicente Parot, Cristian Tejos

In medical applications, it is crucial to evaluate the geometric accuracy of rapid prototyping (RP) models. Current research on evaluating geometric accuracy has focused on…

Additive manufacturing for archaeological reconstruction of a medieval ship

Shwe P. Soe, Daniel R. Eyers, Toby Jones, Nigel Nayling

The purpose of this paper is to examine the suitability of additive manufacturing technologies in the reconstruction of archaeological discoveries as illustrative models. The…

First demonstration on direct laser fabrication of lunar regolith parts

Vamsi Krishna Balla, Luke B. Roberson, Gregory W. O'Connor, Steven Trigwell, Susmita Bose, Amit Bandyopadhyay

The purpose of this paper is to evaluate the feasibility of direct fabrication of lunar/Martian regolith simulant parts, in a freeform environment, using Laser Engineering Net…

Obtaining desired surface roughness of castings produced using ZCast direct metal casting process through Taguchi's experimental approach

Munish Chhabra, Rupinder Singh

The purpose of this paper is to investigate experimentally the effect of volume of casting, pouring temperature of different materials and shell mould wall thickness on the…

A comparison of the energy efficiency of selective laser sintering and injection molding of nylon parts

Cassandra Telenko, Carolyn Conner Seepersad

The purpose of this paper is to evaluate the energy consumed to fabricate nylon parts using selective laser sintering (SLS) and to compare it with the energy consumed for…

Accuracy and density optimization in directly fabricating customized orthodontic production by selective laser melting

Yongqiang Yang, Jian‐bin Lu, Zhi‐Yi Luo, Di Wang

The purpose of this paper is to investigate the research approach to optimize shape accuracy, dimensional accuracy and density of customized orthodontic production fabricated by…

Influence of printing parameters on the transformation efficiency of 3D‐printed plaster of paris to hydroxyapatite and its properties

J. Suwanprateeb, F. Thammarakcharoen, K. Wasoontararat, W. Suvannapruk

The purpose of this paper is to study the influence of changing printing parameters (powder layer thickness and binder saturation) in a three dimensional printing machine (3DP) on…

Suitability of PLA/TCP for fused deposition modeling

Dietmar Drummer, Sandra Cifuentes‐Cuéllar, Dominik Rietzel

Fused deposition modeling (FDM) is a layer by layer technology with the potential to create complex and individual parts from thermoplastic materials such as ABS. The use of…