Variable beam size SLS workstation and enhanced SLS model

Rapid Prototyping Journal

Volumn 3, Issue 1, 1997, Pages 4-11

  Miller, David ^a   Deckard, Carl ^a   Williams, John ^a  

^a AMRL   (United States)

Author keywords

[No Author keywords available]

Indexed keywords

COMPUTER AIDED DESIGN; LASER APPLICATIONS; SCANNING; SINTERING; ENERGY DISSIPATION; FABRICATION; FINITE ELEMENT METHOD; LASER BEAMS; PARAMETER ESTIMATION; POLYCARBONATES; POWDERS;

SELECTIVE LASER SINTERING (SLS); DELIVERY SYSTEMS; LASER CONTROL; SOLID FREEDOM FABRICATION (SFF);

RAPID PROTOTYPING;

EID: 0030657225     PISSN: 13552546     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1108/13552549710169237     Document Type: Article

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