Investigation and development of large-scale equipment and high performance materials for powder bed laser fusion additive manufacturing: This paper reports a uniform preheating technique, a multi-laser scanning technique and a technique to prepare nylon coated composite powder

Virtual and Physical Prototyping

Volumn 9, Issue 4, 2014, Pages 213-223

  Wen, S F ^a   Yan, C Z ^a,b   Wei, Q S ^a   Zhang, L C ^a   Zhao, X ^a   Zhu, W ^a   Shi, Y S ^a  

^a HUAZHONG UNIVERSITY OF SCIENCE AND TECHNOLOGY   (China)

^b UNIVERSITY OF EXETER   (United Kingdom)

Author keywords

additive manufacturing; equipment; materials; selective laser melting; selective laser sintering

Indexed keywords

3D PRINTERS; ADDITIVES; LARGE SCALE SYSTEMS; LASER HEATING; MATERIALS; MELTING; PREHEATING; SELECTIVE LASER MELTING; SINTERING;

COATED COMPOSITES; HIGH PERFORMANCE MATERIAL; LARGE SCALE EQUIPMENTS; PRE-HEATING SYSTEMS; SCIENCE AND TECHNOLOGY; SELECTIVE LASER MELTING (SLM); SELECTIVE LASER SINTERING(SLS); VOLUME PRODUCTION;

SELECTIVE LASER SINTERING;

EQUIPMENT; LASERS; SCANNING; TECHNOLOGY;

EID: 84907785865     PISSN: 17452759     EISSN: 17452767     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1080/17452759.2014.949406     Document Type: Article

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