A review of state-of-the-art large-sized foam cutting rapid prototyping and manufacturing technologies

Rapid Prototyping Journal

Volumn 16, Issue 5, 2010, Pages 318-327

  Brooks, Hadley ^a  

^a UNIVERSITY OF CANTERBURY   (New Zealand)

Author keywords

Foams; Manufacturing systems; Polystyrene; Rapid prototypes

Indexed keywords

ACADEMIC PUBLICATIONS; BENCHMARK STUDY; BUILD TIME; COMPLEX OBJECTS; DESIGN/METHODOLOGY/APPROACH; FOAM CUTTING; LARGE OBJECTS; LITERATURE REVIEWS; MANUFACTURING SYSTEM; MANUFACTURING SYSTEMS; MANUFACTURING TECHNOLOGIES; NEW TECHNOLOGIES; RAPID PROTOTYPE; RAPID PROTOTYPES; RAPID PROTOTYPING AND MANUFACTURING;

COMPUTER AIDED DESIGN; CONCURRENT ENGINEERING; JOB ANALYSIS; POLYSTYRENES; RAPID PROTOTYPING;

TECHNOLOGY;

EID: 77954981860     PISSN: 13552546     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1108/13552541011065713     Document Type: Article

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