... automatically with the software supplied by the manufacturer. Polymers Selective laser sintering Surface properties of materials The surface of the sample made at 2.5 W (Figure 2(a)) exhibits large pores, much bigger than the size of the polyamide raw material. In the sample sintered at 6.5 W...

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.... It is expected that this is due to mentioned effects of the density of the effective powder layer, which is created by the layer device. A.B. Spierings can be contacted at: spierings@inspire.ethz.ch © Emerald Group Publishing Limited 2011 Mechanical properties of materials Surface properties...

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