Potential of laser engineered net shaping (LENS) technology

Materials and Manufacturing Processes

Volumn 24, Issue 7-8, 2009, Pages 750-753

  Palcic I ^a   Balazic M ^b   Milfelner, M ^c   Buchmeister, B ^a  

^a UNIVERSITY OF MARIBOR   (Slovenia)

^b UNIVERSITY OF LJUBLJANA   (Slovenia)

^c EMO Tool Shop   (Slovenia)

Author keywords

Hardness; Laser; Layer manufacturing; LENS technology; Medical implant; Medicine; Microstructure; Nail; Rapid manufacturing; Rapid prototyping; Rapid tooling; Titanium; Titanium alloy; Tool; Tool making

Indexed keywords

LAYER MANUFACTURING; MEDICAL IMPLANTS; RAPID MANUFACTURING; RAPID TOOLING; TOOL MAKING;

ALLOYS; CONCURRENT ENGINEERING; HARDNESS; JOB ANALYSIS; LENSES; MICROSTRUCTURE; NEUTRON SOURCES; OPTICAL INSTRUMENTS; RAPID PROTOTYPING; SURFACE TREATMENT; TECHNOLOGY; TITANIUM;

TITANIUM ALLOYS;

EID: 73149116033     PISSN: 10426914     EISSN: 15322475     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1080/10426910902809776     Document Type: Article

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