Rapid Prototyping Journal: Volume 9 Issue 1

Application of similitude techniques to functional testing of rapid prototypes

Alan J. Dutson, Kristin L. Wood, Joseph J. Beaman, Richard H. Crawford, David L. Bourell

Functional testing of rapid prototypes (RP) represents an exciting area of research in solid freeform fabrication. One approach to functional testing is to use similitude…

Multi‐material and advanced geometry deposition via laser chemical vapor deposition

Scott N. Bondi, Ryan W. Johnson, Tarek Elkhatib, Josh Gillespie, Jian Mi, W. Jack Lackey

Laser chemical vapor deposition (LCVD) as a manufacturing process holds the potential to build compositionally and geometrically unique objects. Georgia Tech's LCVD system has…

A study on effects of process parameters in rapid freeze prototyping

Frances D. Bryant, Guanghua Sui, Ming C. Leu

Rapid freeze prototyping is a relatively new solid freeform fabrication process, which builds a three‐dimensional part according to a CAD model by depositing and freezing water…

Recent developments in metal laminated tooling by multiple laser processing

Thomas Himmer, Anja Techel, Steffen Nowotny, Eckhard Beyer

Time reduction and quick geometrical changes of complex components and tools are currently the most important demands in product development. The manufacturing process presented…

SIS – a new SFF method based on powder sintering

Behrokh Khoshnevis, Bahram Asiabanpour, Mehdi Mojdeh, Kurt Palmer

Selective inhibition of sintering (SIS) is a layered fabrication process which is capable of rapidly producing accurate functional parts out of polymers and metals using a…

Rapid prototyping for treatment of canine limb deformities

Ola L.A. Harrysson, Denis R. Cormier, Denis J. Marcellin‐Little, Ketan Jajal

This report describes Rapid Prototyping (RP) ‐aided assessment and preoperative planning for treatment of bilateral multifocal pelvic limb deformities in a 1 year old German…

Freeform fabrication of Nylon‐6 tissue engineering scaffolds

Suman Das, Scott J. Hollister, Colleen Flanagan, Adebisi Adewunmi, Karlin Bark, Cindy Chen, Krishnan Ramaswamy, Daniel Rose, Erwin Widjaja

The aim of this research is to develop, demonstrate and characterize techniques for fabricating such scaffolds by combining solid freeform fabrication and computational design…