Table Of ContentADVANCED APPLICATIONS
OF RAPID PROTOTYPING
TECHNOLOGY IN MODERN
ENGINEERING
Edited by Muhammad Enamul Hoque
Advanced Applications of Rapid Prototyping Technology in Modern Engineering
Edited by Muhammad Enamul Hoque
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Contents
Preface IX
Chapter 1 Medical Applications of Rapid Prototyping
- A New Horizon 1
Vaibhav Bagaria, Darshana Rasalkar,
Shalini Jain Bagaria and Jami Ilyas
Chapter 2 The Use of Rapid Prototyping in Clinical Applications 21
Giovanni Biglino, Silvia Schievano and Andrew M. Taylor
Chapter 3 Circulation Type Blood Vessel Simulator
Made by Microfabrication 41
Takuma Nakano and Fumihito Arai
Chapter 4 Rapid Prototyping for Training Purposes
in Cardiovascular Surgery 61
Philippe Abdel-Sayed and Ludwig Karl von Segesser
Chapter 5 Rapid Prototyping in Biomedical Engineering 75
Kentaro Iwami and Norihiro Umeda
Chapter 6 Usage of Rapid Prototyping Technique in Customized
Craniomaxillofacial Bone Tissue Engineering Scaffold 91
Dong Han, Jiasheng Dong, De Jun Cao, Zhe-Yuan Yu,
Hua Xu, Gang Chai, Shen Guo-Xiong and Song-Tao Ai
Chapter 7 Use of Rapid Prototyping
and 3D Reconstruction in Veterinary Medicine 103
Elisângela Perez de Freitas, Pedro Yoshito Noritomi
and Jorge Vicente Lopes da Silva
Chapter 8 Rapid Prototyping in Correction
of Craniofacial Skeletal Deformities 119
Libin Zhou and Yanpu Liu
VI Contents
Chapter 9 Application of a Novel Patient - Specific Rapid
Prototyping Template in Orthopedics Surgery 129
Sheng Lu, Yong-qing Xu and Yuan-zhi Zhang
Chapter 10 Rapid Prototyping Applied to Maxillofacial Surgery 153
Marcos Vinícius Marques Anchieta,
Marcelo Marques Quaresma and Frederico Assis de Salles
Chapter 11 Clinical Applications of Rapid Prototyping Models
in Cranio-Maxillofacial Surgery 173
Olszewski Raphael and Reychler Hervé
Chapter 12 A Wafer-Scale Rapid Electronic
Systems Prototyping Platform 207
Walder André, Yves Blaquière and Yvon Savaria
Chapter 13 Rapid Prototyping for Mobile Robots
Embedded Control Systems 225
Leonimer Flavio de Melo, Jose FernandoMangili Junior
and Jose Augusto Coeve Florino
Chapter 14 ASIP Design and Prototyping
for Wireless Communication Applications 243
Atif Raza Jafri, Amer Baghdadi and Michel Jezequel
Chapter 15 Rapid Prototyping
for Evaluating Vehicular Communications 267
Tiago M. Fernández-Caramés, Miguel González-López,
Carlos J. Escudero and Luis Castedo
Chapter 16 Position Location Technique in Wireless Sensor Network
Using Rapid Prototyping Algorithm 291
Touati Youcef, Aoudia Hania, Ali-Cherif Arab and Mohamed Demri
Chapter 17 Application of RP and Manufacturing
to Water-Saving Emitters 307
Zhengying Wei
Chapter 18 The Use of the Rapid Prototyping Method for
the Manufacture and Examination of Gear Wheels 339
Grzegorz Budzik
Preface
Rapid prototyping (RP) technology has been widely known and appreciated due to its
flexible and customized manufacturing capabilities. The widely studied RP techniques
include stereolithography apparatus (SLA), selective laser sintering (SLS), three-
dimensional printing (3DP), fused deposition modeling (FDM), 3D plotting, solid
ground curing (SGC), multiphase jet solidification (MJS), laminated object
manufacturing (LOM). Different techniques are associated with different materials
and/or processing principles and thus are devoted to specific applications. RP
technology has no longer been only for prototype building rather has been extended
for real industrial manufacturing solutions. Today, the RP technology has contributed
to almost all engineering areas that include mechanical, materials, industrial,
aerospace, electrical and most recently biomedical engineering. This book aims to
present the advanced development of RP technologies in various engineering areas as
the solutions to the real world engineering problems.
Dr. Md Enamul Hoque
Associate Professor
Department of Mechanical, Materials & Manufacturing Engineering
University of Nottingham Malaysia Campus
Jalan Broga, Semenyih
Selangor Darul Ehsan
Malaysia
