Solid freeform fabrication (SFF) allows 3D-printing of arbitrarily shaped structures, directly from computer-aided design (CAD) data. SFF has traditionally focused on printing passive mechanical parts. Advances in this technology and developments in materials science make it feasible to begin the development of a single, compact, robotic SFF system – including a small set of materials which can...

INTRODUCTION Farm health and safety has historically focussed on strategies such as injury prevention, safety audits and fulfilling legislative responsibilities. However, farmer injuries mask deeper health issues including higher rates of cancer, suicides, cardiovascular disease and stress. The relationship between occupational health and safety and farm family health has not been fully investi...

Solid freeform fabrication (SFF), also termed as layered manufacturing, produces parts directly from a computer model without part-specific tooling and human intervention (Sachlos et al., 2003; Leong et al., 2003; Kim et al., 2009; Dwivedi and Kovacevic, 2004; Cai et al., 2003; Tian et al., 2002; Guo et al., 2002; Cawley, 1999; Calvert et al., 1998; Alimardani and Toyserkani, 2008; Alemohammad ...

Solid Freeform Fabrication (SFF) refers to a class of rapid manufacturing process that builds parts by incremental material deposition and fusion of thin 2-1/2 dimensional layers. Over this past decade, SFF has taken the manufacturing industry to new heights. However, parts produced by SFF processes exhibit a stair-step surface texture due to the presence of 2-1/2 dimensional layers and exhibit...

Porous ceramic scaffolds are widely studied in the tissue engineering field due to their potential in medical applications as bone substitutes or as bone-filling materials. Solid free form (SFF) fabrication methods allow fabrication of ceramic scaffolds with fully controlled pore architecture, which opens new perspectives in bone tissue regeneration materials. However, little experimentation ha...

UNLABELLED The SFF file format produced by Roche's 454 sequencing technology is a compact, binary format that contains the flow values that are used for base and quality calling of the reads. Applications, e.g. in metagenomics, often depend on accurate sequence information, and access to flow values is important to estimate the probability of errors. Unfortunately, the programs supplied by Roch...

Due to their layer-based nature, Solid Freeform Fabrication (SFF) techniques offer the possibility of fabricating parts in which the material properties vary in three dimensions. Such a capability promises to allow engineers components and parts that are truly optimized with respect to material properties. This presentation discusses research at The University of Texas at Austin to develop a mu...

Nanobiomaterials play an important role in nanobiotechnology and have made a great contribution to biomedical research and healthcare. Recent progress in nanobiomaterials has increased demand for multidisciplinary approaches from physical, biological and engineering sciences. Solid freeform fabrication (SFF) technologies are based on layer-by-layer deposition of materials which bring about new ...

Several passive methods like Shape from Focus (SFF) have been proposed for recovering 3-D shape of the objects from their 2-D images. Presence of noise in the images affects the accuracy of shape recovery. Most of the existing approaches show feeble performance when noise is present in the images. In this paper, we propose a new method based on simple low pass filter, especially designed for SF...