Rapid Prototyping Journal: Volume 7 Issue 1

Advanced deposition techniques for freeform fabrication of metal and ceramic parts

A.A. Tseng, M. Tanaka

Two newly invented deposition techniques for the freeform fabrication of metal and ceramic parts are presented. The first deposition technique studied is one that can deposit…

Intelligent toolpath for extrusion‐based LM process

Dan Qiu, Noshir A. Langrana, Stephen C. Danforth, Ahmad Safari, Mohsen Jafari

To fabricate high quality parts, and to make the development generic yet compatible with the in‐house hardware, a virtual simulation system has been developed, and an in‐house…

A decomposition‐accumulation model for layered manufacturing fabrication

Feng Lin, Yongnian Yan, Wei Sun

A mathematical model to describe the principle of layered manufacturing and layered fabrication error is presented in this paper. In this model, the layered manufacturing process…

Experimental investigation of contour crafting using ceramics materials

Behrokh Khoshnevis, Satish Bukkapatnam, Hongkyu Kwon, Jason Saito

This paper presents research about the adaptation of Contour Crafting, a novel prototyping process, for two carefully chosen uncured ceramic materials. The details of the…

Simulation of injection molding into rapid‐prototyped molds

Rajitha Aluru, Michael Keefe, Suresh Advani

Injection molding is a very mature technology, but the growth of layer‐build, additive, manufacturing technologies (rapid prototypying) has the potential of expanding injection…

Manufacturing production tooling using metal laminations

B.G. Bryden, D.I. Wimpenny, I.R. Pashby

Lastform, a three year EPSRC (IMI) programme, has investigated metallic laminating techniques to produce large‐scale production capable tooling. This work is intended as an…