Development, evaluation, and selection of rapid tooling process chains for sand casting of functional prototypes

Proceedings of the Institution of Mechanical Engineers, Part B: Journal of Engineering Manufacture

Volumn 221, Issue 9, 2007, Pages 1441-1450

  Dimitrov, D ^a   Van Wijck, W ^a   De Beer, N ^a   Dietrich, J ^b  

^a STELLENBOSCH UNIVERSITY   (South Africa)

^b UNIVERSITY OF APPLIED SCIENCES DRESDEN   (Germany)

Author keywords

Casting; Rapid tooling (RT); Three dimensional printing

Indexed keywords

AUTOMATION; PROCESS ENGINEERING; REQUIREMENTS ENGINEERING; SURFACE ROUGHNESS; THREE DIMENSIONAL;

RAPID TOOLING (RT); SAND CASTINGS; THREE-DIMENSIONAL PRINTING;

MACHINE TOOLS;

EID: 38149117099     PISSN: 09544054     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1243/09544054JEM728     Document Type: Article

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