Numerical prediction of temperature and density distributions in selective laser sintering processes

Rapid Prototyping Journal

Volumn 5, Issue 1, 1999, Pages 21-26

  Bugeda, Gabriel ^a   Cervera, Miguel ^a   Lombera, Guillermo ^b  

^a UNIVERSITAT POLITÈCNICA DE CATALUNYA   (Spain)

^b UNIVERSIDAD NACIONAL DE MAR DEL PLATA   (Argentina)

Author keywords

[No Author keywords available]

Indexed keywords

COMPUTER SIMULATION; DENSITY (SPECIFIC GRAVITY); FINITE ELEMENT METHOD; INTEGRATION; LASER BEAMS; MATHEMATICAL MODELS; RAPID PROTOTYPING; TEMPERATURE; THERMAL CONDUCTIVITY;

FIXED POINT STRATEGY; SELECTIVE LASER SINTERING; STREAM UPWIND PETROV GALERKIN STRATEGY;

SINTERING;

EID: 0033299594     PISSN: 13552546     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1108/13552549910251846     Document Type: Article

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