Calibration of shrinkage and beam offset in SLS process

Rapid Prototyping Journal

Volumn 5, Issue 3, 1999, Pages 129-133

  Wang, Xiangwei ^a  

^a CARDIFF UNIVERSITY   (United Kingdom)

Author keywords

[No Author keywords available]

Indexed keywords

LASER APPLICATIONS; PROCESS ENGINEERING; SHRINKAGE; SINTERING;

RAPID TOOLING PROCESS; SELECTIVE LASER SINTERING (SLS) PROCESS;

RAPID PROTOTYPING;

EID: 0032671979     PISSN: 13552546     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1108/13552549910278955     Document Type: Article

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