.... Pires can be contacted at: inespires@ist.utl.pt © Emerald Group Publishing Limited 2014 Prototyping Advanced manufacturing technologies Rapid manufacturing Scaffolds Material properties Printers The 3DP technology was developed at the Massachusetts Institute of Technology...

... the powder in such a way that they were just not covered by powder and also did not pierce through the powder bed. This was done in order to ensure that the measured temperature comes as close as possible to the temperature at the surface of the powder bed. The so prepared, i.e.: A 3D printer (Prometal...

... in a single desktop fabrication process. Originality/value The paper explores the vast potential of tunable materials, especially using the concept of voxel microstructure, applicable primarily to 3D voxel printers but also to other multi‐material freeform fabrication processes. The second class...

...Sebastian Stopp; Thomas Wolff; Franz Irlinger; Tim Lueth Purpose This paper aims to verify a new method for accurate part manufacturing using a 3D printer. In particular, the direction and position dependence of the printed results are to be verified within the building area. The results...

... coefficient. Quick response manufacturing Rapid prototypes Printers Rapid manufacturing is the direct production of finished goods using additive processing from digital data, which eliminates all tooling (Dekker et al., 2003). The aim of this research is to develop a rapid...

... on the predictive performances of commercial CAE software is provided. Elena Bassoli can be contacted at: bassoli.elena@unimore.it © Emerald Group Publishing Limited 2007 Rapid prototypes Printers Computer aided design The techniques based on layer‐by‐layer manufacturing are extending...

... and parallel orientations. © Emerald Group Publishing Limited 2007 Scaffolds Printers Manufacturing systems Precision Solid freeform fabrication (SFF) has been used to create biological scaffolds for tissue engineering, either directly or indirectly (Chen et al., 2004...

... components that are larger than the rapid prototyping machine's build volume. It gives guidelines for designers wishing to follow a similar route. © Emerald Group Publishing Limited 2007 Rapid prototypes Printers Design Manufacturing systems The research in rapid tooling seems...

... resistance applications. Printers Moisture Rapid prototypes J. Suwanprateeb can be contacted at: jintamai@mtec.or.th © Emerald Group Publishing Limited 2007 Prior to infiltration, specimens were dried in an oven at 75°C for 30 min. Infiltration of 3DP specimens was then carried...

... is a new concept. David W. Rosen can be contacted at: david.rosen@me.gatech.edu © Emerald Group Publishing Limited 2006 Production processes Printers Process planning Accuracy Mask Projection Stereolithography (MPSLA) is a micro fabrication process capable of fabricating true...

... to identify and portray the numerous sources of variation (controllable and non‐controllable) (Figure 3) and careful attention was given to it during the planning and execution of the experiments. © Emerald Group Publishing Limited 2006 Benchmarking Printers Rapid prototypes Accuracy...

...Alejandro Carrión Presents a technology forecast for ink‐jet head technology in 3D printers used in rapid prototyping. Gathers information via an expert opinion survey and from the Georgia Tech Library and the World Wide Web about future development and possible impacts. Shows that the technology...