Energy inputs to additive manufacturing: Does capacity utilization matter?

22nd Annual International Solid Freeform Fabrication Symposium - An Additive Manufacturing Conference, SFF 2011

Volumn , Issue , 2011, Pages 30-40

  Baumers, M ^a   Tuck, C ^a   Wildman, R ^a   Ashcroft, I ^a   Hague, R ^a  

^a LOUGHBOROUGH UNIVERSITY   (United Kingdom)

Author keywords

[No Author keywords available]

Indexed keywords

3D PRINTERS; ENERGY EFFICIENCY; ENERGY UTILIZATION;

ADDITIVE MANUFACTURING; CAPACITY UTILIZATION; ELECTRICITY-CONSUMPTION; ENERGY INPUTS; ENERGY REQUIREMENTS; MULTIPLE PARTS; OPERATING PRINCIPLES; SPECIFIC ENERGY CONSUMPTION;

MANUFACTURE;

EID: 84884657898     PISSN: None     EISSN: None     Source Type: Conference Proceeding    
DOI: None     Document Type: Conference Paper

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