Improving accuracy of powder-based SFF processes by metal deposition from a nanoparticle dispersion

Rapid Prototyping Journal

Volumn 12, Issue 5, 2006, Pages 266-274

  Crane, Nathan B ^a   Wilkes, J ^b   Sachs, E ^b   Allen, Samuel M ^b  

^a SANDIA NATIONAL LABORATORIES   (United States)

^b Massachusetts Institute of Technology Cambridge   (United States)

Author keywords

Creep; Metals; Sintering

Indexed keywords

CREEP; NANOSTRUCTURED MATERIALS; POROUS MATERIALS; PRINTING; SHRINKAGE; SINTERING;

SELECTIVE LASER SINTERING (SLS); SINTERING SHRINKAGE; THREE-DIMENSIONAL PRINTING (3DP);

LAYERED MANUFACTURING;

CREEP; POROUS MATERIALS; SHRINKAGE; SINTERING;

EID: 33750172746     PISSN: 13552546     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1108/13552540610707022     Document Type: Article

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