Progress in Additive Manufacturing and Rapid Prototyping

“ Additive Manufacturing Technologies : 3 D Printing , Rapid Prototyping , and Direct Digital Manufacturing ” , 2 nd Edition

“Additive Manufacturing Technologies: 3D Printing, Rapid Prototyping, and Direct Digital Manufacturing” is authored by Ian Gibson, David Rosen and Brent Stucker, who collectively possess 60 years’ experience in the fi eld of additive manufacturing (AM). This is the second edition of the book which aims to include current developments and innovations in a rapidly changing fi eld. Its primary aim...

Rapid Prototyping - Rapid Tooling - Rapid Manufacturing

Progress towards an international standard for data transfer in rapid prototyping and layered manufacturing

This paper discusses the informational requirements of rapid prototyping and layered manufacturing (RPLM). The study is motivated by the recent decision to embark on the development of a new Application Protocol for the international standard ISO 10303, speci®cally to handle layered manufacturing information. The most common industrial use of RPLM today is for rapid prototyping, but a wider vie...

Study on multifunctional rapid prototyping manufacturing system

Yongnian Yan School of Mechanical Engineering, Tsinghua University, Beijing, People’s Republic of China Renji Zhang School of Mechanical Engineering, Tsinghua University, Beijing, People’s Republic of China Qingping Lu School of Mechanical Engineering, Tsinghua University, Beijing, People’s Republic of China Zhaohui Du School of Mechanical Engineering, Tsinghua University, Beijing, People’s Rep...

An adaptive process planning approach of rapid prototyping and manufacturing

This paper presents an adaptive approach to improve the process planning of Rapid Prototyping/ Manufacturing (RP/M) for complex product models such as biomedical models. Non-Uniform Rational B-Spline (NURBS)-based curves were introduced to represent the boundary contours of the sliced layers in RP/M to maintain the geometrical accuracy of the original models. A mixed tool-path generation algori...