A finish machining strategy for rapid manufactured parts and tools

Rapid Prototyping Journal

Volumn 9, Issue 4, 2003, Pages 194-200

  Stucker, Brent ^a   Qu, Xiuzhi ^b  

^a Utah State University   (United States)

^b The University of Rhode Island   (United States)

Author keywords

Machining; Rapid prototyping; Rapid tooling

Indexed keywords

ALGORITHMS; COMMINUTION; DIE CASTING; INJECTION MOLDING; MACHINING;

RAPID TOOLING;

RAPID PROTOTYPING;

EID: 0042525801     PISSN: 13552546     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1108/13552540310489578     Document Type: Article

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