High speed sintering - Continuing research into a new rapid manufacturing process

17th Solid Freeform Fabrication Symposium, SFF 2006

Volumn , Issue , 2006, Pages 682-691

  Thomas, Helen R ^a   Hopkinson, Neil ^a   Erasenthiran, Poonjolai ^a  

^a LOUGHBOROUGH UNIVERSITY   (United Kingdom)

Author keywords

High speed sintering; Infrared radiation; Inkjet printing; Rapid manufacturing

Indexed keywords

EXPERIMENTS; HARDNESS; INFRARED LAMPS; INFRARED RADIATION; LASER HEATING; LASER MATERIALS PROCESSING; MANUFACTURE;

CROSS SECTIONAL AREA; HIGH SPEED; LAYER MANUFACTURING TECHNIQUES; MANUFACTURING CYCLE; RADIATION ABSORBING MATERIALS; RAPID MANUFACTURING; SELECTIVE LASER SINTERING; SINTERING PROCESS;

SINTERING;

EID: 84898475384     PISSN: None     EISSN: None     Source Type: Conference Proceeding    
DOI: None     Document Type: Conference Paper

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