Comparison of support structure generation techniques for 3d printing [PDF]
, 2016 Master's Project (M.S.) University of Alaska Fairbanks, 2016As the old patents from the late 1980's and early 1990's expire, additive fabrication and rapid prototyping has seen a boom in recent years. Often called 3D printing, in the additive fabrication
Tupek, Ann
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Three-Dimensional Printing of Metallic Parts by Means of Fused Filament Fabrication (FFF)
MetalsObtaining metallic parts via Additive Manufacturing can yield several advantages over using other traditional manufacturing methods such as machining.
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Energy consumption of common desktop additive manufacturing technologies
Cleaner Engineering and Technology, 2021 Additive manufacturing (AM), also referred as 3D printing, is a small but fast-growing sub-sector of the manufacturing industry. Concerns over increasing worldwide energy consumption provides an impetus to quantify the energy use of the most common forms
Nicholas Hopkins +2 more
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Effects of Filament Diameter Tolerances in Fused Filament Fabrication
IU Journal of Undergraduate Research, 2016 Fused filament fabrication (FFF) is one of the most popular additive manufacturing (3D printing) technologies due to the growing availability of low-cost desktop 3D printers and the relatively low cost of the thermoplastic filament used in the 3D printing process.
Carolina Cardona +2 more
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5-Gbit/s BER performance on an all fiber-optic add/drop device based on a taper-resonator-taper structure [PDF]
, 2000 We present an all fiber-optic add/drop device based on a taper-resonator-taper structure with improved characteristics. Several gigahertz bandwidths are observed using microspheres having diameters ranging from 30 to 50 μm.
Bhardwaj, Ashish +3 more
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Digital design of medical replicas via desktop systems: shape evaluation of colon parts [PDF]
, 2018 In this paper, we aim at providing results concerning the application of desktop systems for rapid prototyping of medical replicas that involve complex shapes, as, for example, folds of a colon.
Bici, Michele +7 more
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Materials & Design, 2019 In the current work, we prepared a novel material suitable for additive manufacturing by using acrylonitrile-butadiene-styrene (ABS) copolymer as matrix and a thermoplastic polyurethane (TPU) as additive.
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Thermal conditions affecting heat transfer in FDM/FFE: a contribution towards the numerical modelling of the process [PDF]
, 2015 The performance of parts produced by Free Form Extrusion (FFE), an increasingly popular additive manufacturing technique, depends mainly on their dimensional accuracy, surface quality and mechanical performance.
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3D Printed Capacitive Fluid Level Sensor
Proceedings, 2018 A three dimensional, additively manufactured interdigital capacitive sensor for fluid level measurement applications is introduced. The device was fabricated using the fused filament fabrication (FFF) additive manufacturing (AM) process and an off the ...
Ali Abdallah +5 more
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Additive manufacturing of rectangular waveguide devices for teaching microwave laboratory [PDF]
, 2019 In this paper the outline of using of low-cost additive manufacturing FDM/FFF technology to build waveguide devices is presented. The focus is set in a full design from specifications to final measurements in a microwave teaching laboratory.
Márquez-Segura, Enrique
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