Proposal for a standardized test artifact for additive manufacturing machines and processes

23rd Annual International Solid Freeform Fabrication Symposium - An Additive Manufacturing Conference, SFF 2012

Volumn , Issue , 2012, Pages 902-920

  Moylan, Shawn ^a   Slotwinski, John ^a   Cooke, April ^a   Jurrens, Kevin ^a   Donmez, M Alkan ^a  

^a NATIONAL INSTITUTE OF STANDARDS AND TECHNOLOGY   (United States)

Author keywords

[No Author keywords available]

Indexed keywords

3D PRINTERS; MANUFACTURE;

ADDITIVE MANUFACTURING; IMPORTANT FEATURES; PROCESS CAPABILITIES; STANDARD TESTS; STANDARDIZED TESTS; TEST MACHINE; TEST PART;

TESTING;

EID: 84898402712     PISSN: None     EISSN: None     Source Type: Conference Proceeding    
DOI: None     Document Type: Conference Paper

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