Rapid laminated die-cast tooling

Assembly Automation

Volumn 23, Issue 4, 2003, Pages 372-381

  Gibbons, Gregory John ^a   Hansell, Robert G ^a   Norwood, A J ^b   Dickens, P M ^b  

^a UNIVERSITY OF WARWICK   (United Kingdom)

^b LOUGHBOROUGH UNIVERSITY   (United Kingdom)

Author keywords

Formed materials; Lasers; Rapid prototypes

Indexed keywords

AUTOMATION; BONDING; DIE CASTING; MACHINING; PROCESS ENGINEERING;

FORMED MATERIALS; GRAVITY DIE CASTING INDUSTRY; HIGH PRESSURE DIE CASTING INDUSTRY; RAPID TOOLING MANUFACTURING ROUTE;

RAPID PROTOTYPING;

EID: 0242468096     PISSN: 01445154     EISSN: None     Source Type: Trade Journal    
DOI: 10.1108/01445150310501208     Document Type: Article

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