... Emerald Publishing Limited Licensed re-use rights only Product development Rapid prototyping Fused deposition modelling Printing industry Auto-level plate Rapid application development The new manufacturing technique of addition of layers has become the “so-called” third industrial...

... Nanotechnology Nanocomposite Additives Printing industry Shofner and coworkers studied physical properties of the carbon reinforced composites processed by fused filament fabrication (FFF; Shofner et al., 2003a, b). Carbon nanofibers and SWCNTs were added to acrylonitrile‐butadiene‐styrene (ABS...

... is basically an AM process, the general principle of the production of objects by ink‐jetting the binder on layers of powder and its colour capabilities elicit the need for research from the printing industry perspective. 3D colour printing is based, as are all the conventional printing techniques...

... principle. © MCB UP Limited 1998 Printing industry Process innovation 3D Tooling The new rapid prototyping (RP) methods commercially available have brought numerous advantages to the manufacturing industry. Hull’s invention of stereolithography (SLA) (Hull, 1984) together with André...