Manufacturing of micro thin-walled metal parts by micro-droplet deposition

Journal of Materials Processing Technology

Volumn 212, Issue 2, 2012, Pages 484-491

  Chao, Yan Pu ^a,b   Qi, Le Hua ^a,b   Xiao, Yuan ^a,b   Luo, Jun ^a,b   Zhou, Ji Ming ^a,b  

^a NORTHWESTERN POLYTECHNICAL UNIVERSITY   (China)

^b BEIJING UNIVERSITY OF POSTS AND TELECOMMUNICATIONS   (China)

Author keywords

Deposition distance; Formed wall thickness; Micro droplet deposition; Thin walled parts

Indexed keywords

DEPOSITION EXPERIMENTS; EXPERIMENTAL SYSTEM; MANUFACTURING TECHNIQUES; METAL PARTS; MICRO-DROPLET; NOZZLE DIAMETER; PROCESS PARAMETERS; THIN-WALLED; THIN-WALLED PARTS; WALL THICKNESS;

DEPOSITION; DROPS; EXPERIMENTS; FABRICATION; FORMING; INDUSTRIAL RESEARCH; METALS; RAPID PROTOTYPING; THIN WALLED STRUCTURES; WALLS (STRUCTURAL PARTITIONS);

SPRAY NOZZLES;

EID: 81855220860     PISSN: 09240136     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1016/j.jmatprotec.2011.10.015     Document Type: Article

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