...Mathias Vermeulen; Tom Claessens; Benjamin Van Der Smissen; Cedric S. Van Holsbeke; Jan W. De Backer; Peter Van Ransbeeck; Pascal Verdonck Purpose The purpose of this paper is to use rapid prototyping technology, in this case fused deposition modeling (FDM), to manufacture 2D and 3D particle image...

...Manlio Bordoni; Alberto Boschetto Purpose The purpose of this paper is to propose a new way of prototyping surfaces, taking the mathematical background into account, without involving drawing environments. Design/methodology/approach The authors thicken surfaces from a mathematical point...

... at: Kenny.dalgarno@ncl.ac.uk © Emerald Group Publishing Limited 2010 Tools Prototypes Manufacturing systems Sintering The use of layer manufacture approaches in tooling is well established for prototype tools, which take advantage of the low lead times available from layer manufacture systems...

...Constance Ziemian; Ronald Ziemian; Eric Barker Purpose The purpose of this paper is to investigate the correlation between the dynamic behavior of a full‐scale steel prototype and a small‐scale plastic model fabricated using fused deposition modeling (FDM). Design/methodology/approach Based...

...Frances D. Bryant; Ming C. Leu Purpose The purpose of this paper is to develop a physics‐based model that can predict how a main build material of water interacts with a water‐soluble sacrificial support material in the rapid freeze prototyping (RFP) process. Design/methodology/approach RFP...

...António Manuel de A. Monteiro Ramos; José António Simões Purpose The purpose of this paper is to present the development of a technical procedure for the manufacturing of medical implant prototypes. Design/methodology/approach The paper was performed on a new hip implant design...

... Publishing Limited 2008 Lasers Sintering Silicon Prototypes Selective laser sintering (SLS) coupled with post‐process infiltration, also known as indirect SLS, provides a rapid, cost‐effective method for the creation of composites. The advantages of SLS are well known: net‐shape...

...Antonio Armillotta Purpose Test the detail resolution of fused deposition modeling (FDM) in the direct manufacture of rapid prototypes with textured surfaces. Design/methodology/approach A benchmark part carrying regular surface patterns with different feature sizes and aspect ratios has been...

.../approach A range of related works are discussed and an experimental implementation of the RPPD methodology is described for composite functional prototype design and rapid manufacturing (RM). The simultaneous integration of VP/RP/RT/RE/RM technologies consolidates a powerful methodology to achieve...

.../methodology/approach A new flexible sheet metal‐forming technique, incremental forming, has been studied. The technique can be viewed as a rapid prototyping/manufacturing technique for sheet metal parts. To analyse the process, an experimental study and finite element analysis were performed. For the optimal...

... Prototypes Advanced manufacturing technologies Programming and algorithm theory Layered manufacturing (LM) builds a part by joining particles or layers of materials and is capable of producing freeform solid objects directly from a computer model without part‐specific tooling or knowledge. LM...