Experimental study on the ice pattern fabrication for the investment casting by rapid freeze prototyping (RFP)

Computers in Industry

Volumn 48, Issue 3, 2002, Pages 181-197

  Liu, Qingbin ^a   Sui, Guanghua ^a   Leu, M C ^a  

^a MISSOURI UNIVERSITY OF SCIENCE AND TECHNOLOGY   (United States)

Author keywords

Ice patterns; Investment casting; Rapid freeze prototyping; Rapid prototyping; Solid freeform fabrication

Indexed keywords

COMPUTER AIDED DESIGN; INVESTMENT CASTING; MATHEMATICAL MODELS; SURFACE ROUGHNESS;

ICE PATTERNS;

RAPID PROTOTYPING;

EID: 0036706443     PISSN: 01663615     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1016/S0166-3615(02)00042-8     Document Type: Article

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