Rapid tooling route selection and evaluation for sand and investment casting

Virtual and Physical Prototyping

Volumn 2, Issue 4, 2007, Pages 197-207

  Pal, Dinesh ^a   Ravi, B ^b  

^a DRDO   (India)

^b INDIAN INSTITUTE OF TECHNOLOGY BOMBAY   (India)

Author keywords

Analytic network process; Casting; Quality deployment function; Rapid prototyping; Rapid tooling

Indexed keywords

EID: 36549004009     PISSN: 17452759     EISSN: 17452767     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1080/17452750701747088     Document Type: Conference Paper

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