Fifth National Conference on Rapid Design, Prototyping and Manufacture

David Jacobson was born in South Africa. He teaches in the Department of Sociology at Arizona State University. He received his PhD from Princeton University and studied at the Hebrew University of Jerusalem and the London School of Economics. His other books include Right Across Borders and Old Nations, New World. Allan Rennie was born in Stirling, brought up in Kilsyth and lives in Dunblane with his wife Margaret, a children's library assistant. From 1979 he worked on local newspapers including the Bishopbriggs Times, Clydebank Post and Stirling Observer, before joining The Sun as a sub-editor in 1987.

• Foreword ix Formal Presentation PapersAnalysis of the application of the Z-Corps three- dimensional printing system for rapid tooling for plastic injection moulded components P M Hackney and K P Pancholi 3A novel method for rapid prototyping/tooling/manufacture - Shell Assisted Layer Manufacturing (SALM) A K Egodawatta, D K Harrison, A K M De Silva, and G Haritos 13Accuracy of a novel fused deposition modelling technology M O Ibrahim, D P Brabazon, and M S J Hashmi 23New software tools for reverse engineering parts based on three-dimensional volumetric scans P G Young 31A structured approach to the simplification of optimization problems in the virtual prototyping environment D P Comerford and S D Quayle 37The appropriate application of computer-aided design and manufacture techniques in silicone facial prosthetics D Eggbeer, R Bibb, and P Evans 45Application of the Z-Corps three-dimensional printing processes using novel material to manufacture bio-scaffold for bone replacement P M Hackney and K P Pancholi 53Rapid prototyping manufacture of complex three dimensional microscaffolds used in regenerative medicine K Donnelly, R P Keatch, M S Pridham, B Collier, S L Schor, A Schor, and C Gribbon 61Poster Presentation PapersA study on the effects of resin infiltration techniques on parts produced using the three-dimensional printing (3DP) process K A M Steele, N S Herbert, and V Pretet 71Improving the performance of rapid vacuum investment casting R M Minev, N B Zlatov, E M Minev, S Z Su, and K D Dotchev 79Development of systems to increase the green part strength of the three-dimensional printed Z-Corps manufactured parts by infiltration processes to improve their range of application P M Hackney and L C Channappa 87Analysis of the EnvisionTec PerFactory system for rapid production of components and validation utilizing finite element and photo-elastic analysis P M Hackney and K P Pancholi 93Authors' Index 101