Manufacturing Engineering & Technology
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ISBN: 9780133128741
Author: Serope Kalpakjian, Steven Schmid
Publisher: Prentice Hall
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Few parts in commercial products today are directly manufactured through rapid-prototyping operations. Explain the possible reasons.
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Ch. 20 - What are the advantages of electron beam melting?Ch. 20 - What is the Keltool process?Ch. 20 - What is a self-replicating machine?Ch. 20 - Which rapid-prototyping operations can produce...Ch. 20 - Which rapid-prototyping operations can produce...Ch. 20 - How can a mold for sand casting be produced using...Ch. 20 - Examine a ceramic coffee cup and determine in...Ch. 20 - How would you rapidly manufacture tooling for...Ch. 20 - Explain the significance of rapid tooling in...Ch. 20 - List the processes described in this chapter that...Ch. 20 - Few parts in commercial products today are...Ch. 20 - Can rapid-prototyped parts be made of paper?...Ch. 20 - Careful analysis of a rapid-prototyped part...Ch. 20 - Why are the metal parts in three-dimensional...Ch. 20 - Make a list of the advantages and limitations of...Ch. 20 - In making a prototype of a toy automobile, list...Ch. 20 - Using an approximate cost of 400 per gallon for...Ch. 20 - The extruder head in a fused-deposition modeling...Ch. 20 - Using the data for Problem 20.28 and assuming that...Ch. 20 - Rapid-prototyping machines represent a large...Ch. 20 - One of the major advantages of stereolithography...Ch. 20 - A manufacturing technique is being proposed that...Ch. 20 - Identify the rapid-prototyping processes described...Ch. 20 - Design a machine that uses rapid-prototyping...Ch. 20 - Because of relief of residual stresses during...Ch. 20 - Prob. 37SDPCh. 20 - Prob. 39SDPCh. 20 - Prob. 40SDP
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