Rapid Prototyping Technology

✍ Scribed by Kenneth Cooper

• Publisher: CRC Press
• Year: 2001
• Tongue: English
• Leaves: 246
• Series: Dekker Mechanical Engineering
• Edition: 1st
• Category: Library

✦ Synopsis

A reference and text encompassing the most important aspects of rapid prototyping technology as a field. Reviews operation principles and techniques for most solid freeform technologies and historical systems data, promoting design and manufacturing methods.

✦ Table of Contents

Preface......Page 11
Contents......Page 13
What Is Rapid Prototyping?......Page 21
Unit! Concept Modelers......Page 32
The JP-System 5......Page 33
Ballistic Particle Manufacturing......Page 46
The Model Maker Series......Page 53
Multi Jet Modeling......Page 64
3D Printing (Z402 System)......Page 70
The Genisys Desktop Modeler......Page 84
Unit II Functional Modelers......Page 87
Fused Deposition Modeling......Page 88
Laminated Object Manufacturing......Page 109
Stereolithography......Page 130
Selective Laser Sintering......Page 138
Laser Engineered Net Shaping......Page 152
3DP: Pro Metal System......Page 158
Other Functional Rapid Prototyping Processes......Page 168
Unit III Secondary Rapid Prototyping Applications......Page 173
Casting Processes......Page 174
Rapid Tooling......Page 180
Reverse Engineering Using Rapid Prototyping......Page 186
Case Study: Wind-tunnel Testing with Rapid Prototyped Models......Page 189
Case Study: Rapid Prototyping Applied to Investment Casting......Page 204
Unit IV International Rapid Prototyping Systems......Page 218
RP Systems in Israel......Page 219
Rapid Prototyping Systems in Japan......Page 223
Rapid Prototyping Systems in Europe......Page 226
Rapid Prototyping Systems in China......Page 229
Appendices Charts, Roadmaps, and Related Texts......Page 232
Appendix A Rapid Prototyping System Cross Reference Chart......Page 233
Appendix B Direction of the Rapid Prototyping Industry......Page 235
Appendix C: Recommended Rapid Prototyping Publications......Page 240
Index......Page 243