Sustainability of additive manufacturing: Measuring the energy consumption of the laser sintering process

Proceedings of the Institution of Mechanical Engineers, Part B: Journal of Engineering Manufacture

Volumn 225, Issue 12, 2011, Pages 2228-2239

  Baumers, M ^a   Tuck, C ^a   Bourell, D L ^b   Sreenivasan, R ^b   Hague, R ^a  

^a LOUGHBOROUGH UNIVERSITY   (United Kingdom)

^b The University of Texas at Austin   (United States)

Author keywords

Additive manufacturing; Electricity; Energy; Energy consumption; Laser sintering; Power; Power monitoring; Rapid manufacturing

Indexed keywords

ADDITIVE MANUFACTURING; ENERGY; LASER SINTERING; POWER; POWER MONITORING; RAPID MANUFACTURING;

ELECTRICITY; ENERGY UTILIZATION; LASER HEATING; MONITORING; SINTERING;

MANUFACTURE;

EID: 84855933013     PISSN: 09544054     EISSN: 20412975     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1177/0954405411406044     Document Type: Conference Paper

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