Virtual Modelling and Rapid Manufacturing
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Virtual Modelling and Rapid Manufacturing presents essential research in the area of Virtual and Rapid Prototyping. It contains reviewed papers that were presented at the 2nd International Conference on Advanced Research in Virtual and Rapid Prototyping, held at the School of Technology and Management of the Polytechnic Institute of Leiria, Portugal, from September 28 to October 1, 2005. The volume covers a wide range of topical subjects, such as medical imaging, reverse engineering, virtual reality and prototyping, biomanufacturing and tissue engineering, advanced rapid prototyping technologies and micro-fabrication, biomimetics and materials, and concurrent engineering
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Paulo Bártolo is Professor of Advanced Manufacturing Processes at the Polytechnic Institute of Leiria (IPL), Portugal, and Head of the Mechanical Engineering Department at the School of Technology and Management of IPL. He is Co-Director of the Postgraduate Research Centre at IPL, Fellow of the Institute of Polymers and Composites at the University of Minho (Portugal), Advisor of the Portuguese Agency for the Development and Innovation and President of the Portuguese Rapid Prototyping Association. He is Editor in Chief of Virtual & Physical Prototyping www.tandf.co.uk/journals/titles/17452759.asp.
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Keynotes
- Rapid prototyping: a review
- Rapid prototyping in tissue engineering: a state-of-the-art report
- Positive Direct Mask Stereolithography with Multiple Layer Exposure: Layered Fabrication with Stair Step Reduction
- Microfabrication of dental implants with a porous surface structure by microstereolithography
- Femtosecond laser prototyping and its applications to micro-nanodevices
- Bone Tissue Engineering Scaffolds via Selective Laser Sintering of Neat Polycaprolactone and Polycaprolactone-Tricalcium Phosphate Particulate Composites
- Virtual Reality: Engineering Applications, Promises and Challenges
- Virtual Engineering of Complex Products and Systems: Towards Robust Solutions based upon Solid Modelling
- The effect of Rapid Manufacturing on Virtual and Physical Prototyping
Scientific contributions
- Development of scaffolds for tissue engineering using a 3D inkjet model maker
- A method of 3D measurement for rapid prototyping manufacture based on image sequence
- Materials issues in rapid prototyping
- 3D-digitising and reverse engineering, aspects of production engineering
- Rapid manufacturing and the modern mould maker
- Effect of scan mode on the strength of selective laser sintering part
- Rapid tooling using alumide
- Rapid manufacturing through direct rapid prototyping in the South African context
- RSP tooling: advancements and case studies
- Flexible manufacturing concepts/new business models like mass customisation: advantages and new possibilities by using laser-sintering technologies
- Fabrication of bone substitute material by rapid prototyping
- Rapid manufacturing: a path to new markets
- Selection rapid prototyping systems based on the axiomatic design theory
- Research on electroformi
