Rapid Prototyping Additive/Solid Free Form Manufacturing in Automobile Engineering

  Srisairam. V,  Mathan Kumar C.D

This paper deals with the application of Rapid Prototyping to save time as well as the cost of manufacturing critical components of automobiles. Rapid Prototyping is an ideal method for components that are complex in shape because it minimizes the time for developing the patterns, prototypes, and tooling. Additive manufacturing (AM) reduce the construction of complex objects to a manageable, straightforward, and relativity fast process. Automobile parts can be formed with any geometric complexity or intricacy without the need for elaborate machine setup or final assembly. The term Rapid Prototyping (RP) refers to a class of technologies that can automatically construct physical models from Computer-Aided-Design (CAD) data. RP techniques are often referred to solid free-form fabrication; Computer automated manufacturing or layered manufacturing. 3D printing is now the most common name given to a host of related technologies used to fabricate physical objects directly from CAD data sources. 3D printing has displaced RP for top honors, that term is still quite popular. Such systems are also known by the names: additive manufacturing, additive fabrication, solid free-form fabrication (SFF) and layered manufacturing.

Keywords- Rapid Prototyping, Additive Manufacturing, Computer Aided Design, 3D Printing, SFF

Unique Identification Number - IJEDR1504141
Page Number(s) - 799-802
Pubished in - Volume 3 | Issue 4 | December 2015
DOI (Digital Object Identifier) -   
Publisher - IJEDR (ISSN - 2321-9939)

  Srisairam. V,  Mathan Kumar C.D,   "Rapid Prototyping Additive/Solid Free Form Manufacturing in Automobile Engineering", International Journal of Engineering Development and Research (IJEDR), ISSN:2321-9939, Volume.3, Issue 4, pp.799-802, December 2015, Available at :http://www.ijedr.org/papers/IJEDR1504141.pdf