Optimization on selective laser sintering of metallic powder via design of experiments method

Rapid Prototyping Journal

Volumn 13, Issue 3, 2007, Pages 156-162

  Liao, Hsin Te ^a   Shie, Jie Ren ^a  

^a MINGHSIN UNIVERSITY OF SCIENCE AND TECHNOLOGY   (Taiwan)

Author keywords

Experimental design; Lasers; Optimization techniques; Rapid prototypes; Sintering

Indexed keywords

ANALYSIS OF VARIANCE (ANOVA); DESIGN OF EXPERIMENTS; NEODYMIUM LASERS; OPTIMIZATION; RAPID PROTOTYPING; SINTERING;

LASER SINTERING; METALLIC POWDERS; SELECTIVE LASER SINTERING (SLS);

POWDERS;

EID: 34249688511     PISSN: 13552546     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1108/13552540710750906     Document Type: Article

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