On the Rapid Prototyping Technologies and Applications in Product Design and Manufacturing

Abstract:

Material removal, forming, casting and joining are the established manufacturing approaches and processes based on these approaches are being practiced even in modern industries with appropriate automation. Layer by layer material deposition method to produce prototypes from a solid model is relatively new and was developed during last 10-15 years of 20th century. These processes were named as Rapid Prototyping (RP) or Solid Freeform Fabrication (SFF). Today there are many commercial RP system and most of these able to deposit liquid or solid/powder polymer based materials. Some systems are also able to deposit blends of polymer and metal or ceramic. Latest trend in this area is to deposit metals or alloys with variable composition and hence to produce functionally graded material. This paper describes in general the details related to RP processes, data preparation, and various commercial RP technologies. The article also discusses applications these processes.

• Periodical: Materials Science Forum (Volume 710)
• Pages: 101-109
• DOI: https://doi.org/10.4028/www.scientific.net/MSF.710.101
• Online since: January 2012
• Authors: Pulak M. Pandey
• Keywords: Deposition, Fused Deposition Modeling (FDM), Laminated Object Manufacturing, Prototyping, Selective Laser Sintering (SLS), Solid Modeling, Stereolithography, Tessellation

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