...Hyunah Cho; Simon Kang; Kimberly Zhao; Vrashabh Sugandhi; George Melissinos Purpose Prototyping with affordable 3D printers empowers small businesses to create prototypes within a day and carry out multiple iterations of design, size, shape or assembly based on analytical results, bringing better...

... Mechanical engineering Rapid manufacturing Manufacturing Engineering Prototyping 3 D Printing Additive manufacturing Flow-focusing Magnetic particles Monodisperse emulsions Mass production With recent advances in micro- and nano-fabrication, microfluidics has become a promising and enabling...

... of the software alongside an electronic imaging system prototype. Findings Results show that the software is capable of generating binary bitmaps with user-defined Z heights, image dimensions and image FOVs from the CAD model; and can generate reference bitmaps to work with workpiece electronic images...

... the mechanical behavior of the prototypes. They investigated the effect of three main build bed orientations (x, y and z) on the mechanical behavior of solid and porous specimens fabricated in each direction then evaluated the micromechanical finite-element model for each direction. The strut fractures were...

...Monica Carfagni; Lorenzo Fiorineschi; Rocco Furferi; Lapo Governi; Federico Rotini Purpose This paper aims to argue about the involvement of additive technologies (ATs) in the prototyping issues of designing. More precisely, it reviews the literature contributions focused on the different...

... Noor Abdullah Al Mortadi can be contacted at: noor_almurtada@yahoo.com 21 06 2016 28 10 2016 07 12 2016 14 02 2017 14 03 2017 © Emerald Publishing Limited 2018 Emerald Publishing Limited Licensed re-use rights only Prototyping Advanced manufacturing...

...Ramakrishna Vasireddi; Bikramjit Basu Purpose – The purpose of this paper is to investigate the possibility to construct tissue-engineered bone repair scaffolds with pore size distributions using rapid prototyping techniques. Design/methodology/approach – The fabrication of porous scaffolds...

... into the MakerBot MakerWare printing settings are recommended if consistent material properties or geometries are required. Originality/value – Three-dimensional (3D) printing is a rapidly expanding manufacturing method. Initially, 3D printing was used for prototyping, but now this method is being used...

...Ismail Durgun Purpose – The purpose of this paper is to investigate usage of fused deposition modeling (FDM)-based sheet metal tooling for small lot productions as a real case. FDM-based sheet metal tooling was used for stamping prototype parts for two different materials to evaluate dimensional...

...⇀ _v = 0, N '⇀ _o ⋅ N⇀ _v = 0 and | N⇀ _o− N '⇀ _o|≠0. © Emerald Group Publishing Limited 2015 Prototyping Rapid manufacturing Mechanical properties Fused deposition...

... printing technology. Findings – The combination of high-resolution computed tomography scanning and rapid prototyping allowed us to create an accurate 1:1 model of a biological object hidden by wrappings. This model can be used to study skeletal features and morphology and also enhance exhibitions...

.... Bone replacement materials, used in tissue engineering, require a high degree of safety and biological compatibility. For these reasons synthetic bone replacement materials based on calcium-phosphates are being used more widely. To mimic natural bone rapid prototyping processes and especially the three...

... high when compared to that for plastic prototype manufacturing. Consequently, the time involved in the laser processing is also very long. This paper describes the development and assessment of shelling strategies to be applied in an indirect rapid tooling process aimed at reducing time in the process...

...Frances D. Bryant; Guanghua Sui; Ming C. Leu Rapid freeze prototyping is a relatively new solid freeform fabrication process, which builds a three‐dimensional part according to a CAD model by depositing and freezing water droplets layer by layer. A study on the effects of RFP process parameters...

...S.H. Choi; A.M.M. Chan This paper proposes a dexel‐based virtual prototyping system, which builds a virtual prototype with dexels or rectangular strips of solid. The approach resembles the physical fabrication process of most powder‐based rapid prototyping (RP) systems. It simulates an RP process...

...Y. Tang; J.Y.H. Fuh; L. Lu; Y.S. Wong; H.T. Loh; M. Gupta The feasibility of building copper‐based electrodes for electrical discharge machining (EDM) via laser cladding is investigated as an application of rapid prototyping (RP). Two material systems‐Cu/W (with and without nickel) and Cu...

... of prototypes via polymer SDM. This step removes the support material encasing the part material of a completed part. In the current polymer SDM material system, wax support material is dissolved in an agitated, heated solvent bath. This step raises the temperature of completed LUC 4180 polyurethane parts above...

...Behrokh Khoshnevis; Satish Bukkapatnam; Hongkyu Kwon; Jason Saito This paper presents research about the adaptation of Contour Crafting, a novel prototyping process, for two carefully chosen uncured ceramic materials. The details of the construction and operation of the fabrication machine, as well...

...Robert E. Williams; Vicki L. Melton This research investigated the use of two relatively new technologies, abrasive flow machining (AFM) and stereolithography (SL), to minimize the time to develop a finished prototype. Statistical analysis was used to determine effects of media grit size, media...

...John D. Williams; Carl R. Deckard Selective laser sintering (SLS) is a leading process for developing rapid prototype objects by selectively fusing layers of powder according to numerically defined cross‐sectional geometry. The process has the potential to become an indispensable industrial tool...