Analysis of the wear characteristics of an EDM electrode made by selective laser sintering

Journal of Materials Processing Technology

Volumn 138, Issue 1-3, 2003, Pages 475-478

  Zhao, Jianfeng ^a,b   Li, Yue ^a   Zhang, Jianhua ^a   Yu, Chengye ^a   Zhang, Youliang ^b  

^a NANJING UNIVERSITY OF AERONAUTICS AND ASTRONAUTICS   (China)

^b NANJING UNIVERSITY OF SCIENCE AND TECHNOLOGY   (China)

Author keywords

Electrode; Post treatment; Rapid prototyping manufacturing; Selective laser sintering; Wear

Indexed keywords

DENSITY (SPECIFIC GRAVITY); LASER APPLICATIONS; MACHINING; RAPID PROTOTYPING; WEAR OF MATERIALS;

SELECTIVE LASER SINTERING;

ELECTRODES;

EID: 0038142280     PISSN: 09240136     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1016/S0924-0136(03)00122-5     Document Type: Conference Paper

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