Abrasive flow finishing of stereolithography prototypes

Rapid Prototyping Journal

Volumn 4, Issue 2, 1998, Pages 56-67

  Williams, Robert E ^a   Melton, Vicki L ^b  

^a UNIVERSITY OF NEBRASKA LINCOLN   (United States)

^b NOKIA RESEARCH CENTER   (United States)

Author keywords

[No Author keywords available]

Indexed keywords

ABRASIVES; BRITTLE FRACTURE; COMPUTER AIDED DESIGN; FREQUENCIES; LITHOGRAPHY; PRESSURE EFFECTS; SCANNING ELECTRON MICROSCOPY; STATISTICAL METHODS; SURFACE ROUGHNESS; MACHINING; POLYMERS;

ABRASIVE FLOW MATCHING (AFM); DATA DEPENDENT SYSTEMS; REMOVAL RATES; STEREOLITHOGRAPHY (SL); ABRASIVE FLOW MACHINING (AFM); STAIR STEPPING EFFECTS; STEREOLITHOGRAPHY;

SOFTWARE PROTOTYPING; RAPID PROTOTYPING;

EID: 0031650488     PISSN: 13552546     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1108/13552549810207279     Document Type: Article

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