Rapid Prototyping and Manufacturing technology: principle,representative technics, applications and developmental trends
The rapid prototyping and manufacturing technology (RPM), is an integration of many different disciplines. It is based on advanced dispersed-accumulated forming principle and originated from 1980s.It generates an entity by first forming a series of layers according to the dispersed section information of the digital model, and then piling the formed layers sequentially together. And it is capable of forming parts with complicated structures and non-homogeneous materials. Traditional RPM techniques are mainly used as prototypes in product invention process, such as stereolithography, three-dimensional printing,laminated object manufacturing, fused deposition modeling and so on. Later with the progress of material and enabling technology, many new RPM techniques emerged out and have been already applied in the fields such as rapid tooling/moulding, direct formed usable part, nano-/micro- RPM, biomanufacturing and so on. This high flexible digital manufacturing method has a likely ability to become an almighty forming technology.
rapid prototyping rapid manufacturing dispersed-accumulated rapid tooling rapid moulding biomanufacturing
YAN Yongnian LI Shengjie ZHANG Renji LIN Feng WU Rendong LU Qingping XIONG Zhuo WANG Xiaohong
Department of Mechanical Engineering, Tsinghua University,Key Laboratory for Advanced Materials Processing Technology,Ministry of Education, P.R. China, Beijing 100084
国际会议
北京
英文
141-152
2008-11-06（万方平台首次上网日期，不代表论文的发表时间）