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Developments in investment casting process—A review
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In this article, the authors present a review of various investigations made by researchers in different stages of investment casting and highlight their importance, such as pattern wax properties, effects of blending, additives and fillers.About:
This article is published in Journal of Materials Processing Technology.The article was published on 2012-11-01. It has received 307 citations till now. The article focuses on the topics: Investment casting.read more
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Human–Cyber–Physical Systems (HCPSs) in the Context of New-Generation Intelligent Manufacturing
TL;DR: The evolutionary footprint of intelligent manufacturing is reviewed from the perspective ofHCPSs, and the implications, characteristics, technical frame, and key technologies of HCPSs for NGIM are then discussed in depth.
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Additive manufacturing of structural materials
Guo Liu,Xiaofeng Zhang,Xuliang Chen,Yunhu He,Lizi Cheng,Mengke Huo,Jianan Yin,Fengqian Hao,Siyao Chen,Peiyu Wang,Shenghui Yi,Lei Wan,Zhengyi Mao,Zhou Chen,Xu Wang,Zhaowenbo Cao,Jian Lu +16 more
TL;DR: In this article, a review of the additive manufacturing of structural materials is presented, including multi-material additive manufacturing (MMa-AM), multi-modulus AM (MMo-AM) and multi-scale AM (MSc-AM).
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Investigation on cristobalite crystallization in silica-based ceramic cores for investment casting
TL;DR: In this article, cristobalite crystallization and its effects on mechanical and chemical behavior of injection moulded silica-based ceramic cores were investigated, and the results showed that cristobite was crystallized on the surface of fused silica grains at about 1380°C.
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Additive manufacturing of metallic lattice structures: Unconstrained design, accurate fabrication, fascinated performances, and challenges
TL;DR: An overview of conventional manufacturing methods and novel additive manufacturing technologies for metallic lattice structures is presented in this article, where the design, optimization, a variety of properties, and applications of metallic-lattice structures produced by additive manufacturing are elaborated.
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An Efficient Convolutional Neural Network Model Based on Object-Level Attention Mechanism for Casting Defect Detection on Radiography Images
Chuanfei Hu,Yongxiong Wang +1 more
TL;DR: A novel training strategy is presented which can form a new object-level attention mechanism for the model during the training phase, and bilinear pooling is utilized to improve the model capability of detecting local contrast casting defects.
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Manufacturing Processes for Engineering Materials
TL;DR: In this paper, the authors present the fundamental properties of materials and their properties, including surfaces, tribology, dimensional characteristics, inspection, and product quality assurance, and manufacturing properties of metals.
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Rapid Manufacturing of Metal Components by Laser Forming
TL;DR: In this article, the main driving force of rapid prototyping or layer manufacturing techniques changed from fabrication of prototypes to rapid tooling (RT) and rapid manufacturing (RM), and nowadays, the direct fabrication of functional or structural end-use products made by layer manufacturing methods, i.e. RM, is the main trend.
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Rapid prototyping and tooling techniques: a review of applications for rapid investment casting
TL;DR: In this article, the application and potential application of state-of-the-art Rapid prototyping (RP) and Rapid Tooling (RT) techniques in investment casting is discussed.
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Advances in shell moulding for investment casting
TL;DR: In this article, the authors present a review of the state-of-the-art in the field of investment casting and explore possible methods for the improvement of shell performance, focusing on the mechanical and physical properties of the ceramic shell.
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Application of traditional investment casting process to aluminium matrix composites
TL;DR: In this article, the application of traditional investment casting process to obtain components in discontinuously particle reinforced aluminium matrix composites was studied, where a mixed liquid slurry of aluminium alloy and 20% SiC or 7.5% B 4 C carbides was obtained.