Rapid Prototyping Journal: Volume 16 Issue 6

Modeling of powder particle heat transfer process in selective laser sintering for fabricating tissue engineering scaffolds

Florencia Edith Wiria, Kah Fai Leong, Chee Kai Chua

Tissue engineering (TE) involves biological, medical and engineering expertise and a current engineering challenge is to provide good TE scaffolds. These highly porous 3D…

Systematic proposal to calculate price of prototypes manufactured through rapid prototyping an FDM 3D printer in a university lab

Carlos Henrique Pereira Mello, Rafael Calandrin Martins, Bruno Rosa Parra, Edson de Oliveira Pamplona, Eduardo Gomes Salgado, Rodrigo Tavares Seguso

The purpose of this paper is to propose a systematic study to formulate the cost of prototypes manufactured through rapid prototyping (RP) an fused deposition modeling (FDM) 3D…

Vessel phantom fabrication using rapid prototyping technique for investigating thermal dosage profile in HIFU surgery

Cho‐Pei Jiang

The purpose of this paper is to propose a method for fabricating tumor vessel phantom and then investigate the thermal dosage profile caused by high‐intensity‐focused ultrasound…

Development and research of vacuum coating system in SL

Yiqing Wang, Yucheng Ding, Wanhua Zhao, Zhongyun He, Bingheng Lu

The purpose of this paper is to show how to precisely control the liquid resin coating thickness in stereolithography (SL).

Design and manufacture of injection mould tool inserts produced using indirect SLS and machining processes

Ismet Ilyas, Chris Taylor, Kenny Dalgarno, John Gosden

The purpose of this paper is to report on the use of a combination of indirect selective laser sintering (SLS) and machining processes to create injection mould tools, an approach…

Response surface‐based simulation modeling for selective laser sintering process

A.K. Singh, Regalla Srinivasa Prakash

The aim of this paper is to predict the optimum settings of the process parameters for selective laser sintering process.

Ductility of a Ti‐6Al‐4V alloy produced by selective laser melting of prealloyed powders

Luca Facchini, Emanuele Magalini, Pierfrancesco Robotti, Alberto Molinari, Simon Höges, Konrad Wissenbach

The aim of the paper is the study of the change in the mechanical properties (and in particular in ductility), with the microstructure, of a biomedical Ti‐6Al‐4V alloy produced by…

DOE based three‐dimensional finite element analysis for predicting density of a laser‐sintered part

A.K. Singh, Regalla Srinivasa Prakash

The purpose of this paper is to investigate the transient three‐dimensional temperature distribution for a laser sintered duraform fine polyamide part by a moving Gaussian laser…

Editorial

Ian Campbell