Rapid Prototyping Journal: Volume 22 Issue 2

Experimental investigations for development of Nylon6-Al-Al2O3 alternative FDM filament

Kamaljit Singh Boparai, Rupinder Singh, Harwinder Singh

The purpose of this paper is to fabricate Nylon6-Al-Al2O₃-based alternative fused deposition modeling process (FDM) feedstock filament in place of commercial acrylonitrile…

Rapid prototyping process selection using multi criteria decision making considering environmental criteria and its decision support system

Vimal KEK, Vinodh S., Brajesh P., Muralidharan R.

Rapid prototyping (RP) has been given focus during dynamic market conditions, as it largely helps to compress product development time. RP contains the potential to achieve…

3D printing: a useful tool for the fabrication of artificial electromagnetic (EM) medium

Xiaoyong Tian, Ming Yin, Dichen Li

Artificial electromagnetic (EM) medium and devices are designed with integrated micro- and macro-structures depending on the EM transmittance performance, which is difficult to…

Influence of SLS processing parameters according to the new mathematical model on flexural properties

Ana Pilipović, Bogdan Valentan, Mladen Šercer

The purpose of this paper is the selection of production parameters in selective laser sintering – SLS for the production of quality products (e.g. good mechanical properties)…

A novel technique for reducing lead-time and energy consumption in fabrication of Inconel-625 parts by laser-based metal deposition process

A.R. Vinod, C.K. Srinivasa, R. Keshavamurthy, P.V. Shashikumar

This paper aims to focus on reducing lead-time and energy consumption for laser-based metal deposition of Inconel-625 superalloy and to investigate the effect of process…

Development of rapid tooling using fused deposition modeling: a review

Kamaljit Singh Boparai, Rupinder Singh, Harwinder Singh

The purpose of this study is to highlight the direct fabrication of rapid tooling (RT) with desired mechanical, tribological and thermal properties using fused deposition…

Development of ABS based wire as feedstock filament of FDM for industrial applications

Rupinder Singh, Sunpreet Singh, Karan Mankotia

Acrylonitrile-butadiene-styrene (ABS)-based plastic is one of the most widely used filament materials for fused deposition modelling (FDM) applications. Because the FDM system, as…

Direct digital manufacturing of an accelerator pedal for a Formula Student racing car

Jorge Gonzalez Prada, Aitor Cazon, Josu Carda, Ander Aseguinolaza

This paper aims to focus on the design, analysis and additive manufacturing (AM) with two different technologies of an accelerator pedal for the Formula Student 2014 edition to…

Corrosion evaluation of Ti-6Al-4V parts produced with electron beam melting machine

Dana H. Abdeen, Bruce R. Palmer

This paper aims to evaluate the corrosion behavior of Ti-6Al-4V parts produced with electron beam melting (EBM) machine and compare it with wrought Ti-6Al-4V alloy.

Personalized femoral component design and its direct manufacturing by selective laser melting

Changhui Song, Yongqiang Yang, Yunda Wang, Jia-kuo Yu, Di Wang

This paper aims to achieve rapid design and manufacturing of personalized total knee femoral component.

Investigations for melt flow index of Nylon6-Fe composite based hybrid FDM filament

Harish Garg, Rupinder Singh

This paper aims to carry out experimental investigations highlighting the role of melt flow index (MFI) in fused deposition modelling (FDM) process by varying the proportion of…

Structural optimization of printed structures by self-organized relaxation

Andrea Zocca, Cynthia Gomes, Ulf Linow, Heidi Marx, Jörg Melcher, Paolo Colombo, Jens Günster

This paper aims to present an additive manufacturing-based approach in which a new strategy for a thermally activated local melting and material flow, which results in…

Wear behavior of FDM parts fabricated by composite material feed stock filament

Kamaljit Singh Boparai, Rupinder Singh, Harwinder Singh

In this study the friction and wear behavior of fused deposition modeling (FDM) parts fabricated with composite material and acrylonitrile butadienestyrene (ABS) material…

Feature based building orientation optimization for additive manufacturing

Yicha Zhang, Alain Bernard, Ravi Kumar Gupta, Ramy Harik

The purpose of this paper is to present research work based on the authors’ conceptual framework reported in the VRAP Conference 2013. It is related with an efficient method to…

Effect of weld power and build compliance on ultrasonic consolidation

Adam Hehr, Paul J. Wolcott, Marcelo J. Dapino

Ultrasonic additive manufacturing (UAM) is a fabrication technology based on ultrasonic metal welding. As a solid-state process, temperatures during UAM fabrication reach a…

An approach for mechanical property optimization of fused deposition modeling with polylactic acid via design of experiments

Jonathan Torres, Matthew Cole, Allen Owji, Zachary DeMastry, Ali P. Gordon

This paper aims to present the influences of several production variables on the mechanical properties of specimens manufactured using fused deposition modeling (FDM) with…

Experimental investigations of curling phenomenon in selective laser sintering process

Alkhair Almabrouk Mousa

This paper aims to investigate the curling behaviour of selective laser sintered polyamide/glass bead composites with changes in material compositions, part bed temperature…

Additive manufacture of anti-biofouling inserts for marine applications

Martin Leary, Richard Piola, Jeff Shimeta, Steven Toppi, Scott Mayson, Matthew McMillan, Milan Brandt

Biofouling of marine vessels results in significant operational costs, as well as the bio-security risk associated with the transport of marine pests. Biofouling is particularly…

Influence of process parameters on bond properties of Al laminated structure produced by ultrasonic consolidation

Xiao-Hua He, Hui-Ji Shi, Mark Norfolk

The purpose of this paper is to investigate the influence of key parameters on the bond strength and failure modes of laminated structures made of different aluminum alloys (i.e…