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Application of Stereolithography Based 3D Printing Technology in Investment Casting
Advanced methods for manufacturing high quality parts should be used to ensure the production of competitive products for the world market. Investment casting (IC) is a process where a wax pattern is used as a sacrificial pattern to manufacture high precision casting of solid metal parts. Rapid cast...
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Acceso en línea: | https://www.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/pmc/articles/PMC7589843/ https://www.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/pubmed/33086736 http://dx.doi.org/10.3390/mi11100946 |
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author | Mukhtarkhanov, Muslim Perveen, Asma Talamona, Didier |
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description | Advanced methods for manufacturing high quality parts should be used to ensure the production of competitive products for the world market. Investment casting (IC) is a process where a wax pattern is used as a sacrificial pattern to manufacture high precision casting of solid metal parts. Rapid casting is in turn, a technique that eases the IC process by combining additive manufacturing (AM) technologies with IC. The use of AM technologies to create patterns for new industrial products is a unique opportunity to develop cost-effective methods for producing investment casting parts in a timely manner. Particularly, stereolithography (SLA) based AM is of interest due to its high dimensional accuracy and the smooth surface quality of the printed parts. From the first appearance of commercially available SLA printers in the market, it took a few decades until desktop SLA printers became available to consumers at a reasonable price. Therefore, the aim of this review paper is to analyze the state-of-the-art and applicability of SLA based 3D printing technology in IC manufacturing, as SLA based AM technologies have been gaining enormous popularity in recent times. Other AM techniques in IC are also reviewed for comparison. Moreover, the SLA process parameters, material properties, and current issues are discussed. |
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spelling | pubmed-75898432020-10-29 Application of Stereolithography Based 3D Printing Technology in Investment Casting Mukhtarkhanov, Muslim Perveen, Asma Talamona, Didier Micromachines (Basel) Review Advanced methods for manufacturing high quality parts should be used to ensure the production of competitive products for the world market. Investment casting (IC) is a process where a wax pattern is used as a sacrificial pattern to manufacture high precision casting of solid metal parts. Rapid casting is in turn, a technique that eases the IC process by combining additive manufacturing (AM) technologies with IC. The use of AM technologies to create patterns for new industrial products is a unique opportunity to develop cost-effective methods for producing investment casting parts in a timely manner. Particularly, stereolithography (SLA) based AM is of interest due to its high dimensional accuracy and the smooth surface quality of the printed parts. From the first appearance of commercially available SLA printers in the market, it took a few decades until desktop SLA printers became available to consumers at a reasonable price. Therefore, the aim of this review paper is to analyze the state-of-the-art and applicability of SLA based 3D printing technology in IC manufacturing, as SLA based AM technologies have been gaining enormous popularity in recent times. Other AM techniques in IC are also reviewed for comparison. Moreover, the SLA process parameters, material properties, and current issues are discussed. MDPI 2020-10-19 /pmc/articles/PMC7589843/ /pubmed/33086736 http://dx.doi.org/10.3390/mi11100946 Text en © 2020 by the authors. Licensee MDPI, Basel, Switzerland. This article is an open access article distributed under the terms and conditions of the Creative Commons Attribution (CC BY) license (http://creativecommons.org/licenses/by/4.0/). |
spellingShingle | Review Mukhtarkhanov, Muslim Perveen, Asma Talamona, Didier Application of Stereolithography Based 3D Printing Technology in Investment Casting |
title | Application of Stereolithography Based 3D Printing Technology in Investment Casting |
title_full | Application of Stereolithography Based 3D Printing Technology in Investment Casting |
title_fullStr | Application of Stereolithography Based 3D Printing Technology in Investment Casting |
title_full_unstemmed | Application of Stereolithography Based 3D Printing Technology in Investment Casting |
title_short | Application of Stereolithography Based 3D Printing Technology in Investment Casting |
title_sort | application of stereolithography based 3d printing technology in investment casting |
topic | Review |
url | https://www.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/pmc/articles/PMC7589843/ https://www.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/pubmed/33086736 http://dx.doi.org/10.3390/mi11100946 |
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