Jetting stability of molten caprolactam in an additive inkjet manufacturing process

International Journal of Advanced Manufacturing Technology

Volumn 59, Issue 1-4, 2012, Pages 201-212

  Fathi, Saeed ^a   Dickens, Phill ^a   Hague, Richard ^a  

^a LOUGHBOROUGH UNIVERSITY   (United Kingdom)

Author keywords

Additive manufacturing; Inkjet printing; Jettability; Jetting stability; Nylon 6

Indexed keywords

ADDITIVE MANUFACTURING; AIR BUBBLES; AIR MOTION; INK JET TECHNOLOGY; JET ARRAYS; JET TRAJECTORY; JETTABILITY; JETTING FREQUENCIES; MAIN PARAMETERS; MANUFACTURING PROCESS; MOLTEN STATE; NOZZLE PLATES; NYLON-6; PRINT HEAD; PROCESS PARAMETERS; STABLE PROCESS; VACUUM LEVEL; VOLTAGE AMPLITUDE;

EXPERIMENTS; INDUSTRIAL ENGINEERING; POLYAMIDES; PRODUCTION ENGINEERING; RAYON; STABILITY CRITERIA; VACUUM;

MANUFACTURE;

EID: 84857789453     PISSN: 02683768     EISSN: 14333015     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1007/s00170-011-3500-6     Document Type: Article

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