... A three-stage concept links a wasp nest-inspired support-free printing strategy with melt-pool control, robotic processing and printed components. Laser forming STEP Slicing Directed energy deposition Support-free Yunnan Provincial Department of Science and Technology...

... Limited Licensed re-use rights only Selective laser sintering Laser forming Titanium Process innovation Structures Demand for orthopaedic implant surgery is predicted to exceed 5 million worldwide by 2021 with up to $65bn in revenues estimated by 2025 (Murr, 2020). The freedom...

... to the original publication and authors. The full terms of this licence may be seen at http://creativecommons.org/licences/by/4.0/legalcode Laser forming Following thresholding, opening and closing operations were used to filter small defects from the image, also performed in Python OpenCV...

... Licensed re-use rights only Polymers Laser forming Laser melting Plastics Thermal characterisation Polypropylene Molecular weight In the modern manufacturing sector, innovation, complex product design and cost reduction are important challenges (Yan and Gu, 1996). Conventional...

... Limited Licensed re-use rights only Laser forming Material properties Comparative tests Alloys Design verification Total disc replacement (TDR) is a relatively new surgical technique in which a degenerated intervertebral disc is replaced with an artificial intervertebral disc...

... and acceptable strength simultaneously was revealed. The effect of NaCl content on characteristics of the sintered samples was also disclosed. Baijin Chen can be contacted at: chenbaijin@mail.hust.edu.cn © Emerald Group Publishing Limited 2016 Laser forming Rapid prototyping Porous materials...

... Emerald Group Publishing Limited 2013 Advanced manufacturing technologies Laser forming Layered manufacturing Rapid prototyping Nickel-based superalloy especially the DZ125L is wildly used to fabricate components of aircraft engines, among which some thin-walled parts such as turbine...

... Laser forming Optimization Accuracy Selective laser melting (SLM) is a new kind of rapid prototyping (RP) technology in the last decade. Its biggest advantage is the capability of fabricating nearly 100 percent dense metallic parts, compared to other RP technology such as stereolithography...

...Gareth Thomson; Mark S. Pridham It is now well‐known that laser forming offers considerable potential for rapid prototyping and manufacture of sheet metal components. However, a problem with the technique to date has been the generally poor repeatability of the process as a whole on a run‐to‐run...