Dry powder microfeeding system for solid freeform fabrication

17th Solid Freeform Fabrication Symposium, SFF 2006

Volumn , Issue , 2006, Pages 636-643

  Lu, Xuesong ^a   Yang, Shoufeng ^a   Chen, Lifeng ^a   Evans, Julian R G ^a  

^a QUEEN MARY UNIVERSITY OF LONDON   (United Kingdom)

Author keywords

[No Author keywords available]

Indexed keywords

FUNCTIONALLY GRADED MATERIALS;

ACOUSTIC VIBRATION; COMBINATORIAL RESEARCH; FUNCTIONALLY GRADED MATERIAL (FGM); MICRO-FEEDING SYSTEMS; SECOND GENERATION; ULTRASONIC SYSTEM; ULTRASONIC VIBRATION; VOLTAGE AMPLITUDE;

NOZZLES;

EID: 84898479043     PISSN: None     EISSN: None     Source Type: Conference Proceeding    
DOI: None     Document Type: Conference Paper

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