Advanced Rapid Prototyping by laser beam sintering of metal prototypes - Design and development of an optimised laser beam delivery system

Proceedings of SPIE - The International Society for Optical Engineering

Volumn 2787, Issue , 1996, Pages 103-114

  Geiger, M ^a   Coremans, A ^a   Neubauer, N ^a   Niebling, F ^a  

^a UNIVERSITY OF ERLANGEN NUREMBERG   (Germany)

Author keywords

Accuracy; Adaptive optical elements; Beam guiding and forming; Dual beam profile; Functional prototypes; Laser beam sintering; Numerical analysis; Rapid Prototyping; Rapid tooling

Indexed keywords

ADAPTIVE OPTICS; COMPETITION; MECHANICAL PROPERTIES; METAL WORKING; METALS; NUMERICAL ANALYSIS; POWDER METALS; PRODUCT DESIGN; RAPID PROTOTYPING; SINTERING;

ACCURACY; BEAM GUIDING; DUAL BEAM; FUNCTIONAL PROTOTYPES; RAPID TOOLING;

LASER BEAMS;

EID: 34748835532     PISSN: 0277786X     EISSN: 1996756X     Source Type: Conference Proceeding    
DOI: 10.1117/12.248585     Document Type: Conference Paper

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