Dear Marshall and List,
You may find a large part of the ONR funded research on direct manufacturing
using SFF technologies on the Naval Research Reviews, No. 3, 1998 (the whole
volume is entirely dedicated to this subject).
In addition, there was a workshop held in Oxford last year to discuss materials
opportunities in layered manufacturing technologies. This was organized by John
Halloran (U. of Michigan) during his sabbatical in the UK. I believe John will
make his report available if you request it. Interesting key findings included
the fabrication of a new class of optimally designed "artificial materials"
(using the homogenization techniques introduced by Kikuchi and others) that
display a proscribed property tensor, and VPC (Virtual Pattern Casting for
single crystal turbine blades) using ceramic stereolithography.
Regards,
Nuno
Marshall Burns wrote:
> > How many of you users have used a RP technology to produce a model that
> >was the final product? What was the product and how well did it perform?
> >Are any of you considering RP as a manufacturing process for any product
> >you make? Why not?
>
> Elaine,
>
> That's a great question. I don't know if you've seen my new column yet
> in the RP Report about the future of fabber technologies, but starting in
> December, I'll be doing a series on this very subject of direct
> manufacturing in fabbers. I'd be very interested in seeing the responses to
> your question above, and will mention some of them (if nonconfidential) in
> my articles.
>
> Best regards,
> Marshall Burns
> President, Ennex Corporation
>
> Marshall@Ennex.com
> Los Angeles, USA, (310) 824-8700
> www.Ennex.com
>
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