Unit 11 Rapid Prototyping and Manufacturing Technologies课件.ppt

Unit 11 Rapid Prototyping and Manufacturing Technologies;prototyping (RP) methods for complex patterns making and component prototyping. Over the past few years, a variety of new rapid manufacturing technologies, generally called Rapid Prototyping and Manufacturing (RPM), have emerged; the technologies developed include stereolithography (SL), selective laser sintering (SLS), fused deposition modeling (FDM), laminated object manufacturing (LOM), and three dimensional printing (3D Printing). These technologies are capable of directly generating physical objects from CAD databases. They have a common important feature: the prototype part is produced by adding materials rather than removing materials, that is, a part is first modeled by a geometric modeler such as a solid modeler, and then is mathematically sectioned (sliced) into a series of parallel cross-section pieces. For each piece, the curing or binding paths are generated. These curing or binding paths are directly used to instruct the machine for producing the part by;solidifying or binding a line of material. After a layer is built, a new layer is built on the previous one in the same way. Thus, the model is built layer by layer from the bottom to top. RP Processes As mentioned earlier, there are several technologies available for model production based on the principle of “growing” or “additive” manufacturing. The major differences among these technologies are in two aspects: (1) Materials used, and (2) Part building techniques. The following sections will explain in detail these rapid prototyping technologies with respect to the above two aspects. 1. Stereolithography Stereolithography apparatus (SLA) was invented by Charle Hull of 3D Systems Inc. it is the first commercially available rapid prototype and is considered as the;most widely used prototyping machine. The material used is liquid photo-curable resin, acrylate. Under the initiation of photons, small molecules (monomers) are polymeriz