Rapid prototyping machine based on ceramic laser fusion

被引：3

作者：

Hwa Hsing Tang

Fwu Hsing Liu

Wen Hsiang Lin

机构：

[1] National Taipei University of Technology,Department of Mechanical Engineering

[2] Lunghwa University of Science and Technology,Department of Mechanical Engineering

来源：

The International Journal of Advanced Manufacturing Technology | 2006年 / 30卷

关键词：

Ceramic green layer; Ceramic parts; Laser fusion; Rapid prototyping;

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摘要：

This paper proposes an automatic machine using a new process, ceramic laser fusion, for rapid fabrication of ceramic parts. The machine comprises three parts: a laser scanning system, a green layer paving system, and a control system. In order to control the working procedure of layer paving and scanning process, a process computer is connected to an X–Y table, a PLC and a path/laser controller. An even green layer of 0.15 mm thickness could be paved accurately using ceramic slurry by a layer paving device. After drying by an infrared heater, the green layer could be fused to form a ceramic layer by a CO2 laser and then a 3-D ceramic workpiece could be fabricated layer by layer automatically. The time spent on fabricating a 25×25×0.15 mm ceramic specimen was 3 min. The SEM micrograph of the melted ceramic layers shows that ceramic green layers can be fused together.

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页码：687 / 692

页数：5