Screening and Forming Process of Composite Wax Powder for Laser Sintering
Author of the article:LI Ding;YANG Shangxin;JIA Runli;WANG Jianhong
Author's Workplace:Research Institute of Plastics,North University of China,Taiyuan 030051,China
Key Words:composite wax powder laser selective sintering molding process
Abstract:Several kinds of composite wax powders were developed, and a kind of precision casting wax powder suitable for laser selective sintering was selected through sintering test. The performance and sintering process of laser sintering were studied, and the optimum technological parameters of laser sintering were obtained. The results show that the selected precision casting wax powder is optimized for sintering with laser power of 10 w, preheating temperature of 60 ℃, laser scanning speed of 2,000 mm/s and powder thickness of 0.15 mm.