A study on the influence of the sloped cutting angle on kerfwidth and part quality in the hotwire cutting of EPS foam for the VLM-s rapid prototyping process

International Journal of Machine Tools and Manufacture

Volumn 43, Issue 14, 2003, Pages 1447-1464

  Ahn, D G ^a   Lee, S H ^b   Yang, D Y ^b  

^a Chosun University   (South Korea)

^b Korea Advanced Institute of Science and Technology (KAIST)   (South Korea)

Author keywords

Cutting angle; EPS foam; Hotwire cutting; Kerfwidth; Part quality; Rapid prototyping; Sloped heat flux model; Transient heat transfer analysis

Indexed keywords

ANGLE MEASUREMENT; HEAT FLUX; RAPID PROTOTYPING; SHEET METAL;

HOTWIRE CUTTING;

METAL CUTTING;

EID: 0141793037     PISSN: 08906955     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1016/S0890-6955(03)00170-6     Document Type: Article

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