RAPID PROTOYPING TECHINQUES AND ADVANCEMENT

IN BIOMEDICAL APPLICATIONS

ABSTRACT
The Rapid Prototyping has come out as the best technology in the recent times, which allows
the direct conversion of CAD files into the functional prototypes where it mainly decreases
the lead time to produce the physical prototype important for design verification and
operational analysis by creating prototype directly from CAD data. Rapid prototyping is
known by many terms as per the technologies involved, like SFF or solid freeform
fabrication, FF or freeform fabrication, digital fabrication, AFF or automated freeform
fabrication, 3D printing, solid imaging, layer based manufacturing, laser prototyping and
additive manufacturing. Rapid prototyping is a revolutionary and powerful technology with
wide range of applications. The importance of rapid prototyping is to quickly fabricate
complex-shaped, 3D parts directly from computer aided design models, which is based upon
decomposition of 3D computer models data into thin cross-sectional layers, followed by
physically forming the layers and stacking them up; layer by layer technique.

The process of prototyping involves quick building up of a prototype or working models for
the purpose of testing the various design features, ideas, concepts, functionality, output and
performance. This presentation covers the various methods being used in rapid prototyping
nowadays and the possibilities of using RP technologies based on biomaterial. Using RP in
biomedical is a quite complex task which implies a multidisciplinary approach and very good
knowledge of engineering as well as medicine.

PRESENTED BY: GUIDED BY:

NAME: KUNALDEEP SAMANTROY Mr. DEEPAK SUNA

ROLL NO. : 33930 (ASSITANT PROF. PRODUCTION ENGG. DEPT)

REGISTRATION NO. : 1401105493

SEMESTER :

BRANCH : PRODUCTION ENGINEERING

Keywords- Additive Manufacturing, 3D Printing , Selective laser sintering, Fused Deposition

Modelling , Laminated Object Manufacturing , Biomaterials.