Date of Award

2004

Publication Type

Master Thesis

Degree Name

M.A.Sc.

Department

Industrial and Manufacturing Systems Engineering

Keywords

Engineering, Industrial.

Supervisor

El Maraghy, W.

Rights

info:eu-repo/semantics/openAccess

Abstract

The optimal selection of rapid prototyping (RP) process parameters is a great concern to RP designers. When dealing with this problem, different build objectives have to be taken into consideration. Using virtual rapid prototyping (VRP) systems as a visualization tool to verify the optimally selected process parameters will assist designers in taking critical decisions regarding modeling of prototypes. This will lead to substantial improvements in part accuracy using minimal number of iterations, and no physical fabrication until confident enough to do so. The purpose of this thesis is to demonstrate that virtual validation of optimally selected process parameters can significantly reduce time and effort spent on traditional RP experimentation. To achieve the goal of this thesis, a multi-objective optimization technique is proposed and a model is generated taking into consideration different build objectives, which are surface roughness, support structure volume, build time and dimensional accuracy. The multi-objective method used is the weighted sum method, where a single utility function has been formulated, which combines all the objective functions together. The orders of magnitudes have been normalized, and finally weights have been assigned for each objective function in order to create the general formulation. (Abstract shortened by UMI.)Dept. of Industrial and Manufacturing Systems Engineering. Paper copy at Leddy Library: Theses & Major Papers - Basement, West Bldg. / Call Number: Thesis2004 .E47. Source: Masters Abstracts International, Volume: 43-03, page: 0959. Adviser: Waguih ElMaraghy. Thesis (M.A.Sc.)--University of Windsor (Canada), 2004.

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