Selective laser sintering of Mo-CuNi composite to be used as EDM electrode

Rapid Prototyping Journal

Volumn 20, Issue 1, 2014, Pages 59-68

  Amorim, Fred L ^a   Lohrengel, Armin ^b   Neubert, Volkmar ^b   Higa, Camila F ^a   Czelusniak, Tiago ^a  

^a PONTIFICAL CATHOLIC UNIVERSITY OF PARANÁ   (Brazil)

^b CLAUSTHAL UNIVERSITY OF TECHNOLOGY   (Germany)

Author keywords

Electrical discharge machining; Electrodes; Molybdenum and copper nickel alloy; Selective laser sintering

Indexed keywords

COPPER NICKEL ALLOYS; DENSIFICATION BEHAVIOR; DESIGN/METHODOLOGY/APPROACH; ELECTRICAL-DISCHARGE MACHINING; EXPERIMENTAL METHODOLOGY; MACHINING CONDITIONS; SELECTIVE LASER SINTERING; SYSTEMATIC METHODOLOGY;

COPPER ALLOYS; COPPER POWDER; ELECTRODES; EXPERIMENTS; HATCHES; LASER HEATING; MANUFACTURE; MOLYBDENUM; NICKEL ALLOYS; OPTIMIZATION; POROSITY; SURFACE ANALYSIS; SURFACE MORPHOLOGY;

ELECTRIC DISCHARGES;

EID: 84892404053     PISSN: 13552546     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1108/RPJ-04-2012-0035     Document Type: Article

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