Research on Surface Quality Enhancement of Wood-Plastic Composite Powder SLS Parts by Post Processing

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According to its advantages, such as low-cost and green biological etc., Wood-Plastic Composite(WPC) is more suitable for make parts by Selective Laser Sintering(SLS) rapid prototyping (RP) process. With optimal design of components, the parts made by WPC have good mechanical properties as well as with good laser sintering properties. In order to further improve the surface quality of the parts, the post-processing–infiltrating with wax–is introduced. After post-processing, the void fraction is decreased from 51% to 7%, surface quality has been greatly improved, Ra belows 13µm on average, after polishing the surface is more smooth and Ra belows 5µm averagely,compared to those without post processing, surface roughness decrease 22% and 73% respectively.

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Advanced Materials Research (Volumes 113-116)

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508-511

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June 2010

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