Rapid Prototyping Journal: Volume 17 Issue 1

Topology design and freeform fabrication of deployable structures with lattice skins

Uma Maheshwaraa Namasivayam, Carolyn Conner Seepersad

Solid freeform fabrication is particularly suitable for fabricating customized parts, but it has not been used for fabricating deployable structures that can be stored in a…

A novel rapid prototyping system for expandable polystyrene

Kun Sun, Bo Li, Liang Fang, Qingguang Ye

Expanded polystyrene (EPS) is a low‐density and cheap material, which has been widely used in commercial areas. As the demand for small‐batch, flexible and quick production…

An organically modified montmorillonite/nylon‐12 composite powder for selective laser sintering

C.Z. Yan, Y.S. Shi, J.S. Yang, J.H. Liu

The purpose of this paper is to reinforce the selective laser sintering (SLS) parts of nylon‐12 using organically modified montmorillonite (OMMT).

Artery vessel fabrication using the combined fused deposition modeling and electrospinning techniques

Amal Owida, Rui Chen, Shital Patel, Yos Morsi, Xiumei Mo

The purpose of this paper is to prepare a new combined method of rapid prototyping, fused deposition modeling (FDM) and electrospinning for the fabrication of coronary artery…

A preliminary design and manufacturing study of hybrid lightweight high‐speed wind‐tunnel models

Yang Dang‐guo, Zhang Zheng‐yu, Sun Yan, Zhu Wei‐jun

In view of the strength and stiffness deficiencies of current photopolymer resin models under high aerodynamic loads, the purpose of this paper is to introduce a preliminary…

Geometrical modeling of H&N cancer tumor

Ali K. Kamrani, Maryam Azimi

Most of the current radiation treatment planning systems use pre‐treatment computed tomography (CT) images to detect the tumor location and then plan the radiation therapy to be…

Speed and accuracy evaluation of additive manufacturing machines

Tomaz Brajlih, Bogdan Valentan, Joze Balic, Igor Drstvensek

The purpose of this paper is to establish a general method for achievable speed and accuracy evaluation of additive manufacturing (AM) machines and an objective comparison among…

Selective laser melted prototype of original minimally invasive resurfacing hip endoprosthesis

Ryszard Uklejewski, Mariusz Winiecki, Piotr Rogala, Janusz Mielniczuk

The aim of this paper is to present the main results of a research project finished in 2008 which concerned the selective laser melted (SLM) prototype of a new kind of minimally…

Editorial

Ian Campbell

A new company descriptor takes us into a new era

Rebecca Marsh