A benchmarking part for evaluating and comparing support structures of additive manufacturing

• Main Authors: Stringer, Jonathan, Xu, Xun, Zheng, Pai, Jiang, Jingchao
• Other Authors: School of Mechanical and Aerospace Engineering
• Format: Conference or Workshop Item
• Language: English
• Published: 2018
• Subjects: Additive Manufacturing; Support Structure; DRNTU::Engineering::Mechanical engineering::Prototyping
• Online Access: https://hdl.handle.net/10356/88296; http://hdl.handle.net/10220/45764
• Institution: Nanyang Technological University

Additive manufacturing technology has been rapidly developed and increasingly popular nowadays; its applications spread to almost every corner in our lives. However, when printing products with overhangs, support structures are often needed, resulting in extended build time, post-processing and m...