Re: direct manufacturing or production

From: thoms@naisp.net
Date: Sat Nov 06 1999 - 15:22:45 EET


Molecular Geodesics of Boston does fascinating work in this area.
Tom Richards, Metallurgist

At 12:21 PM 11/6/99 +0000, you wrote:
>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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>
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Tom Richards, Metallurgist

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