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ADVANCED APPLICATIONS OF RAPID PROTOTYPING TECHNOLOGY IN MODERN ENGINEERING Edited by Muhammad Enamul Hoque Advanced Applications of Rapid Prototyping Technology in Modern Engineering Edited by Muhammad Enamul Hoque Published by InTech Janeza Trdine 9, 51000 Rijeka, Croatia Copyright © 2011 InTech All chapters are Open Access articles distributed under the Creative Commons Non Commercial Share Alike Attribution 3.0 license, which permits to copy, distribute, transmit, and adapt the work in any medium, so long as the original work is properly cited. After this work has been published by InTech, authors have the right to republish it, in whole or part, in any publication of which they are the author, and to make other personal use of the work. Any republication, referencing or personal use of the work must explicitly identify the original source. 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ISBN 978-953-307-698-0 free online editions of InTech Books and Journals can be found at www.intechopen.com Contents Preface IX Chapter 1 Medical Applications of Rapid Prototyping - A New Horizon 1 Vaibhav Bagaria, Darshana Rasalkar, Shalini Jain Bagaria and Jami Ilyas Chapter 2 The Use of Rapid Prototyping in Clinical Applications 21 Giovanni Biglino, Silvia Schievano and Andrew M. Taylor Chapter 3 Circulation Type Blood Vessel Simulator Made by Microfabrication 41 Takuma Nakano and Fumihito Arai Chapter 4 Rapid Prototyping for Training Purposes in Cardiovascular Surgery 61 Philippe Abdel-Sayed and Ludwig Karl von Segesser Chapter 5 Rapid Prototyping in Biomedical Engineering 75 Kentaro Iwami and Norihiro Umeda Chapter 6 Usage of Rapid Prototyping Technique in Customized Craniomaxillofacial Bone Tissue Engineering Scaffold 91 Dong Han, Jiasheng Dong, De Jun Cao, Zhe-Yuan Yu, Hua Xu, Gang Chai, Shen Guo-Xiong and Song-Tao Ai Chapter 7 Use of Rapid Prototyping and 3D Reconstruction in Veterinary Medicine 103 Elisângela Perez de Freitas, Pedro Yoshito Noritomi and Jorge Vicente Lopes da Silva Chapter 8 Rapid Prototyping in Correction of Craniofacial Skeletal Deformities 119 Libin Zhou and Yanpu Liu VI Contents Chapter 9 Application of a Novel Patient - Specific Rapid Prototyping Template in Orthopedics Surgery 129 Sheng Lu, Yong-qing Xu and Yuan-zhi Zhang Chapter 10 Rapid Prototyping Applied to Maxillofacial Surgery 153 Marcos Vinícius Marques Anchieta, Marcelo Marques Quaresma and Frederico Assis de Salles Chapter 11 Clinical Applications of Rapid Prototyping Models in Cranio-Maxillofacial Surgery 173 Olszewski Raphael and Reychler Hervé Chapter 12 A Wafer-Scale Rapid Electronic Systems Prototyping Platform 207 Walder André, Yves Blaquière and Yvon Savaria Chapter 13 Rapid Prototyping for Mobile Robots Embedded Control Systems 225 Leonimer Flavio de Melo, Jose FernandoMangili Junior and Jose Augusto Coeve Florino Chapter 14 ASIP Design and Prototyping for Wireless Communication Applications 243 Atif Raza Jafri, Amer Baghdadi and Michel Jezequel Chapter 15 Rapid Prototyping for Evaluating Vehicular Communications 267 Tiago M. Fernández-Caramés, Miguel González-López, Carlos J. Escudero and Luis Castedo Chapter 16 Position Location Technique in Wireless Sensor Network Using Rapid Prototyping Algorithm 291 Touati Youcef, Aoudia Hania, Ali-Cherif Arab and Mohamed Demri Chapter 17 Application of RP and Manufacturing to Water-Saving Emitters 307 Zhengying Wei Chapter 18 The Use of the Rapid Prototyping Method for the Manufacture and Examination of Gear Wheels 339 Grzegorz Budzik Preface Rapid prototyping (RP) technology has been widely known and appreciated due to its flexible and customized manufacturing capabilities. The widely studied RP techniques include stereolithography apparatus (SLA), selective laser sintering (SLS), three- dimensional printing (3DP), fused deposition modeling (FDM), 3D plotting, solid ground curing (SGC), multiphase jet solidification (MJS), laminated object manufacturing (LOM). Different techniques are associated with different materials and/or processing principles and thus are devoted to specific applications. RP technology has no longer been only for prototype building rather has been extended for real industrial manufacturing solutions. Today, the RP technology has contributed to almost all engineering areas that include mechanical, materials, industrial, aerospace, electrical and most recently biomedical engineering. This book aims to present the advanced development of RP technologies in various engineering areas as the solutions to the real world engineering problems. Dr. Md Enamul Hoque Associate Professor Department of Mechanical, Materials & Manufacturing Engineering University of Nottingham Malaysia Campus Jalan Broga, Semenyih Selangor Darul Ehsan Malaysia