To meet industry’s expectations for manufacturing ceramic parts by stereolithography, a better comprehension of the process, in particular laser scattering through slurry is mandatory. This knowledge makes it possible to define adapted printing conditions control dimensions, homogeneity conversion and mechanical properties green parts, order achieve resolutions optimize sintered parts. approach...

The use of additive manufacturing techniques in conjunction with injection moulding is becoming increasingly popular, financial and time benefits to coupling the techniques. This study demonstrates a systematic development process 3D printed rapid tooled moulds using stereolithography. A high flexural modulus elongation were found increase likelihood success mould material process. Success defi...

Liquid crystal (LC) monomers are a novel type of resin for stereolithography that result in polymers having unique physical and mechanical properties. These monomers consist of rigid central cores connected to acrylate functional groups by short aliphatic chains. Because of the rigid-rod structure of the monomer the cross-linked polymer networks formed have high glass transition temperatures (T...

The article presents pr ocess application of the rapi d prototyping (RP) for manufacturing of blades of aircraft turbine in monocrystallization and also directional crystallization of casting process. It is describing the method of modelling of the chosen elements of casting model kit with the usage of RP and RT system s. The article presents the analysis of additive rapid prototyping methods (...

Additive manufacturing or '3D printing' is being developed as a novel manufacturing process for the production of bespoke micro- and milliscale fluidic devices. When coupled with online monitoring and optimisation software, this offers an advanced, customised method for performing automated chemical synthesis. This paper reports the use of two additive manufacturing processes, stereolithography...

Rapid Prototyping (RP) presents the automatic production of physical parts using by additive manufacturing technology. The start techniques for Rapid Prototyping became available in the late 1980s and were used to produce models and prototype parts. Today they are used for a much wider range of applications and are even used to manufacture productionquality parts in relatively small numbers. Ra...

We investigate holographic optical trapping combined with step-and-repeat maskless projection stereolithography for fine control of 3D position of living cells within a 3D microstructured hydrogel. C2C12 myoblast cells were chosen as a demonstration platform since their development into multinucleated myotubes requires linear arrangements of myoblasts. C2C12 cells are positioned in the monomer ...

PURPOSE We describe state-of-the-art software and hardware requirements for the manufacture of high quality medical models manufactured using medical rapid prototyping. The limitations of medical models, the source of artefacts, and their physical appearance are illustrated along with remedies for their removal. MATERIALS AND METHODS Medical models were built using predominantly stereolithogr...