Thin-wall calculation for layered manufacturing

Journal of Computing and Information Science in Engineering

Volumn 3, Issue 3, 2003, Pages 210-218

  McMains, Sara ^a   Smith, Jordan ^b   Séquin, Carlo ^b  

^a UNIVERSITY OF CALIFORNIA   (United States)

^b UNIVERSITY OF CALIFORNIA   (United States)

Author keywords

[No Author keywords available]

Indexed keywords

ALGORITHMS; BOOLEAN FUNCTIONS; COMPUTATIONAL COMPLEXITY; COMPUTER SIMULATION; LAYERED MANUFACTURING; WALLS (STRUCTURAL PARTITIONS);

FUSED DEPOSITION MODELING; THIN WALL CALCULATION; VORONOI DIAGRAM;

COMPUTER AIDED DESIGN;

EID: 0141987681     PISSN: 15309827     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1115/1.1604812     Document Type: Article

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