Advances in Multiple Material Solid Freeform Fabrication
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Due to their layer-based nature, Solid Freeform Fabrication (SFF) techniques offer the possibility of fabricating parts in which the material properties vary in three dimensions. Such a capability promises to allow engineers components and parts that are truly optimized with respect to material properties. This presentation discusses research at The University of Texas at Austin to develop a multiple materials capability for one SFF technique, selective laser sintering. Efforts to develop a representation for heterogeneous solid parts are described, and predicted methodologies for heterogeneous part design will be discussed. The status of efforts to realize a multiple material SLS workstation will then be reviewed.
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