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Patient-specific Intervertebral Disc Implants using Rapid Manufacturing...

AbstractPurpose - This research was undertaken to develop a process chain for design and manufacture of endplates of intervertebral disc implants, with specific emphasis on designing footprint profiles...

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Distributed Recycling of Waste Polymer into RepRap Feedstock

AbstractPurpose - A low-cost, open source, self-replicating rapid prototyper (RepRap) has been developed, which greatly expands the potential user base of rapid prototypers. The operating cost of the...

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Study of the inter-particle necks in Selective Laser Sintering

AbstractPurpose - Since pulsed lasers are mainly used in Selective Laser Sintering (SLS) - contrarily to Selective Laser Melting (SLM) - only the exterior of the powder particles is molten while their...

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Using Variable Beam Spot Scanning to Improve the Efficiency of...

AbstractPurpose - The purpose of this paper is to present a new stereolithograhy(SL) process which could substantially improve the efficiency of building process through controlling the beam spot size...

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THE CORROSIVE EFFECTS OF ARTIFICIAL SALIVA ON CAST AND RAPID...

AbstractPurpose - Rapid manufacture-produced cobalt chromium alloys are beginning to be used in dentistry but there are few published results relating to their properties. This study determined the...

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Fatigue performance of Additive Manufactured metallic Parts

AbstractPurpose - Additive manufacturing technologies such as e.g. Selective Laser Melting (SLM) offer new design possibilities for a wide range of applications and industrial sectors. Whereas many...

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METHOD TO OBTAIN HYBRID RAPID TOOLS WITH ELEMENTARY COMPONENT ASSEMBLY

AbstractPurpose - To propose a method to obtain hybrid rapid tools with elementary component assemblyDesign/methodology/approach - Our method, proposes a functional representational model, starting...

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Template-based Framework for Nasal Prosthesis Fabrication

AbstractPurpose - This paper proposes a template-based framework for nasal prosthesis fabrication using a 3D areal scanner and a CT scanner.Design/methodology/approach - 1) Use of a self-designed 3D...

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Weibull growth modeling of laser-sintered nylon 12

AbstractPurpose– This paper seeks to present the results of an experiment to investigate the effect of six part orientation (XY, XZ, YX, YZ, ZY, ZX) and a wide range of energy densities on ultimate...

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Fatigue analysis of FDM materials

AbstractPurpose– The purpose of this paper is to determine the effects of fatigue on fused deposition modeling rapid prototyped acrylonitrile butadiene styrene (ABS) materials....

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High temperature material properties of IN738LC processed by selective laser...

AbstractPurpose– Selective laser melting (SLM) is being investigated by Alstom and IWF due to its flexibility, cost- and lead-time reduction potential for reconditioning of hot gas path components used...

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Efficient three dimensional modelling of additive manufactured textiles

AbstractPurpose– The purpose of this paper is to investigate, develop and validate a three-dimensional modelling strategy for the efficient generation of conformal textile data suitable for additive...

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Regulating complex geometries using layered depth-normal images for rapid...

AbstractPurpose– Most layer-based rapid prototyping systems use polygonal models as input. In addition, the input polygonal models need to be manifold and water-tight; otherwise the built objects may...

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3D roughness profile model in fused deposition modelling

AbstractPurpose– The paper aims to predict the surface roughness of fused deposition modelling prototypes. Since average roughness is not comprehensive, this study aims to extend the characterization...

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Novel polymeric support materials for jetting based additive manufacturing...

AbstractPurpose– Jetting-based additive manufacturing processes are gaining attention due to their high speed of operation, accuracy and resolution. Support material plays an important role in the...

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Prototype production and experimental analysis for circular and profiled...

AbstractPurpose– The purpose of this paper is to present a technique of fabricating profiled conformal cooling channels (PCCC) in an aluminium filled epoxy mould using rapid prototyping (RP) and rapid...

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Investigation of Plasma Spectra During Laser Micro Sintering Cu-based Metal...

AbstractPurpose - This paper investigated the plasma characteristics of laser micro sintering Cu-based metal powder using spectra method.Design/methodology/approach - Temporal and time integrating...

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Production of Customized Hip Stem Prostheses – A comparison between...

AbstractPurpose - The purpose of this paper is to study the use of the Additive Manufacturing (AM) method, Electron Beam Melting (EBM), for manufacturing of customized hip stems. The aim is to...

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Additive manufacturing (AM) and Nanotechnology: Promises and Challenges

AbstractPurpose - This paper provides a review of available published literature in which nanostructures are incorporated into AM printing media as an attempt to improve the properties of the final...

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