...Aiman A. Alshare; Fedrico Calzone; Maurizio Muzzupappa Purpose The purpose of this study is to investigate the feasibility of using additive manufacturing (AM) technique to produce an efficient valve manifold for hydraulic actuator by redesigning valve blocks produced by conventional methods...

... test probes were built layer by layer using a longitudinal strategy, and the quality of the deposited material was characterized for both wire and powder LMD processes. The measured data during the deposition tests have been used for comparing the efficiency of both powder and wire LMD processes...

..., the minimum temperature is slightly larger than the room temperature (30°C) and the vapor equilibrium pressure is approximately 0.04 MPa. Figure 2 Experimental set-up Polishing Fused deposition modelling Efficiency Environmental management Surface treatment Additive manufacturing...

... that of resistance heating system. Findings – In contrast to resistance heating method, induction heating is more efficient because the heating is directly applied on the work-piece. Its heating rate is higher than that of resistance heating method. However, the uneven temperature distribution in the barrel...

...Cao Yi; Li Dichen; Wu Jing Purpose The purpose of this paper is to present a new stereolithograhy (SL) process which could substantially improve the efficiency of building process through controlling the beam spot size and optimizing the process parameters dynamically. Design/methodology...

... associated with production of the injection mold. As a result, the energy consumed per part for IM decreases with the number of parts fabricated while the energy consumed per part for SLS remains relatively constant as long as builds are packed efficiently. The crossover production volume, at which IM...

... quadric surface. Finds that empirical results from this system on representative parts systematically yield improvements of between one and two orders of magnitude in efficiency, accuracy and data volume over an equivalent processing of the STL model. Furthermore, discovers that the analytic form...