Optimization of support material and build time in fused deposition modeling (FDM)

Applied Mechanics and Materials

Volumn 110-116, Issue , 2012, Pages 2245-2251

  Pavan Kumar, G ^a   Regalla, Srinivasa Prakash ^a  

^a BIRLA INSTITUTE OF TECHNOLOGY AND SCIENCE   (India)

Author keywords

ANOVA; Build time; DOE; FDM; RSM; Support material volume

Indexed keywords

BUILD TIME; DESIGN-EXPERT; DOE; FULL FACTORIAL DESIGN; FUSED DEPOSITION MODELING; GEOMETRICAL COMPLEXITY; INTERACTION EFFECT; LAYER MANUFACTURING; LAYER THICKNESS; MODEL EQUATIONS; PROCESS PARAMETERS; PROCESS QUALITY; PRODUCTION PROCESS; QUALITY PARAMETERS; ROTATIONAL PARTS; RSM; SUPPORT MATERIAL VOLUME; SUPPORT MATERIALS; TIME-PERIODS;

AEROSPACE ENGINEERING; DESIGN OF EXPERIMENTS; EXPERIMENTS; FREQUENCY DIVISION MULTIPLEXING; FUNCTIONAL POLYMERS; MANUFACTURE; PLASTIC PARTS;

ANALYSIS OF VARIANCE (ANOVA);

EID: 81255195335     PISSN: 16609336     EISSN: 16627482     Source Type: Book Series    
DOI: 10.4028/www.scientific.net/AMM.110-116.2245     Document Type: Conference Paper

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