A review of melt extrusion additive manufacturing processes: I. Process design and modeling

Rapid Prototyping Journal

Volumn 20, Issue 3, 2014, Pages 192-204

  Turner, Brian N ^a   Strong, Robert ^a   Gold, Scott A ^a  

^a University of Dayton   (United States)

Author keywords

Bead spreading; FDM; Fused deposition modeling; Liquefier dynamics; Melt extrusion manufacturing; Process modeling

Indexed keywords

DEPOSITION; FREQUENCY DIVISION MULTIPLEXING; HEAT FLUX; LAYERED MANUFACTURING; MELT SPINNING; NOZZLES; PROCESS DESIGN; RAPID PROTOTYPING; TORQUE MOTORS;

ADDITIVE MANUFACTURING; ADDITIVE MANUFACTURING PROCESS; ADVANCED ENGINEERINGS; BEAD SPREADING; DESIGN/METHODOLOGY/APPROACH; FUSED DEPOSITION MODELING; MELT EXTRUSION; PROCESS MODELING;

3D PRINTERS;

EID: 84901012161     PISSN: 13552546     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1108/RPJ-01-2013-0012     Document Type: Review

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