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RAPID PROTOTYPING TECHNOLOGY – PRINCIPLES AND FUNCTIONAL REQUIREMENTS Edited by Muhammad Enamul Hoque Rapid Prototyping Technology – Principles and Functional Requirements 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. Statements and opinions expressed in the chapters are these of the individual contributors and not necessarily those of the editors or publisher. No responsibility is accepted for the accuracy of information contained in the published articles. The publisher assumes no responsibility for any damage or injury to persons or property arising out of the use of any materials, instructions, methods or ideas contained in the book. Publishing Process Manager Mirna Cvijic Technical Editor Teodora Smiljanic Cover Designer Jan Hyrat Image Copyright Adisa, 2011. Used under license from Shutterstock.com First published September, 2011 Printed in Croatia A free online edition of this book is available at www.intechopen.com Additional hard copies can be obtained from [email protected] Rapid Prototyping Technology – Principles and Functional Requirements, Edited by Muhammad Enamul Hoque p. cm. ISBN 978-953-307-970-7 free online editions of InTech Books and Journals can be found at www.intechopen.com Contents Preface IX Chapter 1 Optimization of Additive Manufacturing Processes Focused on 3D Printing 1 Razvan Udroiu and Anisor Nedelcu Chapter 2 Selection of Additive Manufacturing Technologies Using Decision Methods 29 Anderson Vicente Borille and Jefferson de Oliveira Gomes Chapter 3 Rapid Tooling Development 55 Sadegh Rahmati Chapter 4 Heterogeneous Object Modeling for Rapid Prototyping 81 Xiaojun Wu Chapter 5 Desktop Robot Based Rapid Prototyping System: An Advanced Extrusion Based Processing of Biopolymers into 3D Tissue Engineering Scaffolds 105 Md. Enamul Hoque and Y. Leng Chuan Chapter 6 Hyperelastic Modeling of Rubber-Like Photopolymers for Additive Manufacturing Processes 135 Giovanni Berselli, Rocco Vertechy, Marcello Pellicciari and Gabriele Vassura Chapter 7 From Optical Acquisition to Rapid Prototyping: Applications to Medicine and to Cultural Heritage 153 Giovanna Sansoni and Franco Docchio Chapter 8 Additive Manufactured Models of Fetuses Built from 3D Ultrasound, Magnetic Resonance Imaging and Computed Tomography Scan Data 179 Jorge Lopes Dos Santos, Heron Werner, Ricardo Fontes and Simone Belmonte VI Contents Chapter 9 Point Set Analysis: An Image Analysis Point of View for Rapid Prototyping Technologies 193 Nicolas Loménie, Daniel Racoceanu and Georges Stamon Chapter 10 Rapid Prototyping of Hybrid, Plastic-Quartz 3D-Chips for Battery-Operated Microplasmas 209 Weagant S., Li L. and Karanassios V. Chapter 11 Rapid Prototyping of Quaternion Multiplier: From Matrix Notation to FPGA-Based Circuits 227 Marek Parfieniuk, Nikolai A. Petrovsky and Alexander A. Petrovsky Chapter 12 Rapid Prototyping of Embedded Microelectronics by Laser Direct-Write 247 Alberto Piqué Chapter 13 Design and Experimentation of Wearable Body Sensors 273 Kiing Ing Wong Chapter 14 Fabrication of Planar Integrated Optic Devices by Laser Patterning 289 P.V.S. Marques, D. Alexandre, A. Ghasemphour, P. Moreira and A.M.P. Leite Chapter 15 Multi-Functional Guidance, Navigation and Control Simulation Environment - Rapid Prototyping of Space Simulations 315 Erwin Mooij and Marcel Ellenbroek Chapter 16 Deep Proton Writing: A Rapid Prototyping Tool for Polymer Micro-Optical and Micro-Mechanical Components 339 Jürgen Van Erps, Michael Vervaeke, Christof Debaes, Heidi Ottevaere, Alex Hermanne and Hugo Thienpont Chapter 17 A New Rapid Prototyping Process for Sheet Metal Parts 363 Yuanxin Luo, Kai He and Ruxu Du Preface Modern engineering often deals with customized design that requires easy, low-cost and rapid fabrication. Rapid prototyping (RP) is a popular technology that enables quick and easy fabrication of customized forms/objects directly from computer aided design (CAD) model. The needs for quick product development, decreased time to market, and highly customized and low quantity parts are driving the demand for RP technology. Today, RP technology also known as solid freeform fabrication (SFF) or desktop manufacturing (DM) or layer manufacturing (LM) is regarded as an efficient tool to bring the product concept into the product realization rapidly. Though all the RP technologies are additive they are still different from each other in the way of building layers and/or nature of building materials. This book delivers up-to-date information about RP technology focusing on the overview of the principles, functional requirements, design constraints etc. of specific technology. Dr. Md Enamul Hoque Associate Professor Department of Mechanical, Materials & Manufacturing Engineering University of Nottingham Malaysia Campus Jalan Broga, Semenyih Selangor Darul Ehsan Malaysia