Introduction
Solid Freeform Fabrication An Advanced Manufacturing Approach 1
D.L. Bourell, J.J. Beaman, H.L. Marcus and J.W. Barlow
Ceramics
Microencapsulation of Finely Divided Ceramic Powders 8
N.K. Vail and J.W. Barlow
Selective Laser Sintering of Ceramic Materials 16
Uday Lakshminarayan, Stan Ogrydziak and Harris L. Marcus
Three Dimensional Printing: Rapid Tooling and Prototypes Directly from CAD Representation 27
Emanuel Sachs, Michael J. Cima, James Cornie, D. Brancazio, J. Bredt, A. Curodeau, M. Esterman, T. Fan, C. Harris, K. Kremmin, S.J. Lee, B. Pruitt and P. Williams
Gas Phase Deposition
Design of a Solid Free-form Fabrication Diamond Reactor 48
W. Richards Thissell, James Tompkins and H.L. Marcus
Modeling of Selective Area Laser Deposition for Solid Freeform Fabrication 74
Y. Jacquot, G-S. Zong and H.L. Marcus
Solid Freeform Fabrication by Selective Area Laser Deposition 83
Gui-Sheng Zong, R. Carnes, H.G. Wheat and H.L. Marcus
Metals
Prediction of the Thermal Conductivity of Beds Which Contain Polymer Coated Metal Particles 91
Badrinarayan Balasubramanian and J.W. Barlow
Selective Laser Sintering of Binary Metallic Powder 99
J.A. Manriquez-Frayre and D.L. Bourell
Steel-Based Sprayed Metal Tooling 107
Paul S. Fussell and Lee Weiss
Modeling and Control
Alpha_1, Remote Manufacturing, and Solid Freeform Fabrication 114
Samuel H. Drake
CAD Model Format for SFF Machines 121
James Darrah and Martin Wielgus
Contour Following for Scanning Control in SFF Application 126
Ying-Jeng Engin Wu and J.J. Beaman
Geometric Modeling for Rapid Prototyping and Tool Fabrication 135
E. Levent Gursoz, Fritz Prinz, Lee E. Weiss
Parametric Analysis of the Selective Laser Sintering Process 146
Ming-shen Martin Sun, J.J. Beaman, and J.W. Barlow
Polymers
A Computer Model for Laser Photopolymerization 155
Lawrance Flach and Richard P. Chartoff
Sintering Rates in the Selective Laser Sintering Process 164
Christian Nelson and J.W. Barlow
Solid Modeling and Stereolithography as a Solid Freeform Fabrication Technique at Texas Instruments Incorporated 171
Owen Baumgardner and Paul Blake
Thermal Properties of Powders 179
Samuel Xue and J.W. Barlow