... for drilling additively manufactured carbon fiber reinforced polymer (CFRP) composites. Two distinct additive manufacturing methods of fused deposition modeling (FDM) and laser-assisted laminated object manufacturing (LA-LOM) were used to fabricate CFRP plates with continuous carbon fiber reinforcement...

...Ezequiel Poodts; Giangiacomo Minak Purpose The purpose of this paper is to demonstrate the applicability of an indirect rapid tooling technique to the autoclave forming of carbon fibre reinforced plastic laminates. Design/methodology/approach A rapid prototyping machine was used to process...

...Hossein Ahari; Amir Khajepour; Sanjeev Bedi Purpose This paper proposes sheet thickness determination in manufacturing of laminated dies as an optimization problem. The aim of this optimization procedure is finding the best set of thicknesses which minimizes the volume deviation between actual...

... to finish a wide range of internal passages in a variety of RT. Originality/value AFM has been previously used for finishing stereolithography prototypes. This is the first known attempt to seal and finish channels in laminated RT using AFM. © Emerald Group Publishing Limited 2007 Since...

... accuracy. Two adjacent slice profiles, which define a lamination's top edge and are represented as polylines, are stitched together using an adaptive surface reconstruction algorithm. A cutting trajectory algorithm then develops a series of suitable cutting vectors (i.e. position and cutting direction...

... with a very small slice thickness leads to large build time. At the same time if large slice thickness is chosen, the surface finish is very bad due to staircasing. These two contradicting issues namely reduction in build time and better surface quality have been a major concern in laminated manufacturing...

...B.G. Bryden; D.I. Wimpenny; I.R. Pashby Lastform, a three year EPSRC (IMI) programme, has investigated metallic laminating techniques to produce large‐scale production capable tooling. This work is intended as an overview of the research and development performed at the University of Warwick’s...

...B.G. Bryden; I.R. Pashby This paper outlines a method of sequentially joining steel laminations together using a high strength brazed joint to produce laminated tools. Individual joints were produced by using a heated platen rather than a furnace. Lap shear test samples were used to evaluate...