Contact thermal conductivity of a powder bed in selective laser sintering

International Journal of Heat and Mass Transfer

Volumn 46, Issue 6, 2003, Pages 1103-1109

  Gusarov, A V ^a   Laoui, T ^b   Froyen, L ^c   Titov, V I ^a  

^a BAIKOV INSTITUTE OF METALLURGY AND MATERIALS SCIENCE   (Russian Federation)

^b UNIVERSITY OF WOLVERHAMPTON   (United Kingdom)

^c UNIVERSITY OF LEUVEN   (Belgium)

Author keywords

Contact thermal conductivity; Coordination number; Powder bed; Selective laser sintering

Indexed keywords

HEAT TRANSFER; LASER APPLICATIONS; PARTICLE SIZE ANALYSIS; SINTERING;

POWDER BED;

THERMAL CONDUCTIVITY;

CONTACT; HEAT TRANSFER; LASER; POWDER; SINTERING; TEMPERATURE; THERMAL CONDUCTIVITY;

EID: 0037360372     PISSN: 00179310     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1016/S0017-9310(02)00370-8     Document Type: Article

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