Statistical modeling and minimization of form error in SLS prototyping

Rapid Prototyping Journal

Volumn 18, Issue 1, 2012, Pages 38-48

  Senthilkumaran, K ^a   Pandey, P M ^b   Rao, P V M ^b  

^a VIT UNIVERSITY   (India)

^b INDIAN INSTITUTE OF TECHNOLOGY DELHI   (India)

Author keywords

Keywords Design for assembly; Process parameters; Rapid prototyping; Selective laser sintering; Shape error; Sintering

Indexed keywords

BUILD ORIENTATION; CENTRAL COMPOSITE DESIGNS; CHAMBER TEMPERATURE; CYLINDER DIAMETERS; CYLINDRICITY; DESIGN FOR ASSEMBLY; DOMINANT FACTOR; EMPIRICAL MODEL; EXPERIMENTAL INVESTIGATIONS; FORM ERRORS; GEOMETRIC TOLERANCE; INTERACTION EFFECT; LASER POWER; OPTIMUM PARAMETERS; PROCESS PARAMETERS; PROCESS VARIABLES; QUADRATIC EFFECT; RESEARCH LIMITATIONS; SECOND-ORDER REGRESSION MODEL; SELECTIVE LASER SINTERING; SHAPE ERRORS; STATISTICAL MODELING;

DIELECTRIC PROPERTIES; EXPERIMENTS; FITS AND TOLERANCES; GEOMETRY; LASER HEATING; RAPID PROTOTYPING; REGRESSION ANALYSIS;

SINTERING;

EID: 84855826242     PISSN: 13552546     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1108/13552541211193485     Document Type: Article

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