Rapid Prototyping Technology - Principles and Functional Requirements

402 Pages·40.005 MB·English

by  Hoque Muhammad E.

RAPID PROTOTYPING
TECHNOLOGY – PRINCIPLES
AND FUNCTIONAL
REQUIREMENTS

Edited by Muhammad Enamul Hoque
Rapid Prototyping Technology – Principles and Functional Requirements
Edited by Muhammad Enamul Hoque

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Contents

Preface IX
Chapter 1 Optimization of Additive Manufacturing
Processes Focused on 3D Printing 1
Razvan Udroiu and Anisor Nedelcu
Chapter 2 Selection of Additive Manufacturing
Technologies Using Decision Methods 29
Anderson Vicente Borille and Jefferson de Oliveira Gomes
Chapter 3 Rapid Tooling Development 55
Sadegh Rahmati
Chapter 4 Heterogeneous Object Modeling for Rapid Prototyping 81
Xiaojun Wu
Chapter 5 Desktop Robot Based Rapid Prototyping System:
An Advanced Extrusion Based Processing
of Biopolymers into 3D Tissue Engineering Scaffolds 105
Md. Enamul Hoque and Y. Leng Chuan
Chapter 6 Hyperelastic Modeling of Rubber-Like
Photopolymers for Additive Manufacturing Processes 135
Giovanni Berselli, Rocco Vertechy,
Marcello Pellicciari and Gabriele Vassura
Chapter 7 From Optical Acquisition to Rapid Prototyping:
Applications to Medicine and to Cultural Heritage 153
Giovanna Sansoni and Franco Docchio
Chapter 8 Additive Manufactured Models of Fetuses Built
from 3D Ultrasound, Magnetic Resonance Imaging
and Computed Tomography Scan Data 179
Jorge Lopes Dos Santos, Heron Werner,
Ricardo Fontes and Simone Belmonte
VI Contents

Chapter 9 Point Set Analysis: An Image Analysis Point
of View for Rapid Prototyping Technologies 193
Nicolas Loménie, Daniel Racoceanu and Georges Stamon
Chapter 10 Rapid Prototyping of Hybrid, Plastic-Quartz
3D-Chips for Battery-Operated Microplasmas 209
Weagant S., Li L. and Karanassios V.
Chapter 11 Rapid Prototyping of Quaternion Multiplier:
From Matrix Notation to FPGA-Based Circuits 227
Marek Parfieniuk, Nikolai A. Petrovsky and Alexander A. Petrovsky
Chapter 12 Rapid Prototyping
of Embedded Microelectronics by Laser Direct-Write 247
Alberto Piqué
Chapter 13 Design and Experimentation of Wearable Body Sensors 273
Kiing Ing Wong
Chapter 14 Fabrication of Planar Integrated Optic
Devices by Laser Patterning 289
P.V.S. Marques, D. Alexandre, A. Ghasemphour,
P. Moreira and A.M.P. Leite
Chapter 15 Multi-Functional Guidance, Navigation
and Control Simulation Environment
- Rapid Prototyping of Space Simulations 315
Erwin Mooij and Marcel Ellenbroek
Chapter 16 Deep Proton Writing: A Rapid Prototyping Tool for Polymer
Micro-Optical and Micro-Mechanical Components 339
Jürgen Van Erps, Michael Vervaeke, Christof Debaes,
Heidi Ottevaere, Alex Hermanne and Hugo Thienpont
Chapter 17 A New Rapid Prototyping Process for Sheet Metal Parts 363
Yuanxin Luo, Kai He and Ruxu Du

Preface

Modern engineering often deals with customized design that requires easy, low-cost
and rapid fabrication. Rapid prototyping (RP) is a popular technology that enables
quick and easy fabrication of customized forms/objects directly from computer aided
design (CAD) model. The needs for quick product development, decreased time to
market, and highly customized and low quantity parts are driving the demand for RP
technology. Today, RP technology also known as solid freeform fabrication (SFF) or
desktop manufacturing (DM) or layer manufacturing (LM) is regarded as an efficient
tool to bring the product concept into the product realization rapidly. Though all the
RP technologies are additive they are still different from each other in the way of
building layers and/or nature of building materials. This book delivers up-to-date
information about RP technology focusing on the overview of the principles,
functional requirements, design constraints etc. of specific technology.

Dr. Md Enamul Hoque
Associate Professor
Department of Mechanical, Materials & Manufacturing Engineering
University of Nottingham Malaysia Campus
Jalan Broga, Semenyih
Selangor Darul Ehsan
Malaysia