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Shape Deposition Lab Head: Lee Weiss Contact: Lee Weiss (lew@cs.cmu.edu) Mailing address: Carnegie Mellon University Robotics Institute 5000 Forbes Avenue Pittsburgh, PA 15213 Location: HH C114 (412) 268 3788 For more information, see this lab's homepage.

This page last updated - January 1999.

Lab Description

Shape Deposition Manufacturing (SDM) is a solid freeform fabrication process which systemically combines material deposition with material removal processes. Our mission is to:

1. enable the rapid manufacture of high-quality, complex designs which could not be practically fabricated with conventional manufacturing processes
2. take advantage of the vast, existing CNC milling machine infrastructure throughout the world by creating SFF processes which can be implemented by simply adding deposition apparatus to a CNC machine.

Personnel [Past members]

	Name	Title	Email Address
	Jack L. Beuth	Associate Professor, MechE	beuth@andrew.cmu.edu
	Prashant Kumta	Associate Professor, MSE	kumta+@cmu.edu
	Lawrence Schultz	Senior Research Engineer	schultz+@cs.cmu.edu

Recent publications [View all 48 publications]

• INKJET DEPOSITION SYSTEM WITH COMPUTER VISION-BASED CALIBRATION FOR TARGETING ACCURACY
  L. Weiss, L. Schultz, and E. Miller
  tech. report CMU-RI-TR-06-15, Robotics Institute, Carnegie Mellon University, March, 2006. [Abstract]
  Download: pdf [484 KB] copyrighted

• Layered Manufacturing: Current Status and Future Trends
  D. Dutta, F.B. Prinz, D. Rosen, and L. Weiss
  Trans. ASME JCISE, Vol. 1, No. 1, 2001, pp. 60 - 71.

• Solid Freeform Fabrication: A New Manufacturing Paradigm
  R.H. Crawford, J.J. Beaman, C. Cavello, J.D. Jackson, L. Weiss, and C.H. Séquin
  IEEE Spectrum, Vol. 36, No. 2, 1999, pp. 34 - 43.

• Automated Fabrication of Complex Molded Parts Using Mold SDM
  A.G. Cooper, S. Kang, J.W. Kietzman, F.B. Prinz, J.L. Lombardi, and L. Weiss
  Solid Freeform Fabrication Symposium, August, 1998. [Abstract]
  Download: pdf [205 KB] copyrighted

• Automated Fabrication of Complex Molded Parts Using Mold SDM
  A.G. Cooper, S. Kang, J.W. Kietzman, F.B. Prinz, J.L. Lombardi, and L. Weiss
  Materials and Design, Vol. 20, No. 2/3, June, 1998, pp. 83 - 89.

• Fabrication of microstructures using aluminum anodization techniques
  A. Nadeem, M. Mescher, K. Rebello, L. Weiss, C.C. Wu, M.D. Feldman, and M.L. Reed
  Proceedings of The Eleventh Annual International Workshop on Micro Electro Mechanical Systems, January, 1998, pp. 274 - 277. [Abstract]
  Download: pdf [635 KB] copyrighted

• Novel Applications and Implementations of Shape Deposition Manufacturing
  L. Weiss and F.B. Prinz
  Naval Research Reviews, Vol. 1, 1998.

• Shape Deposition Manufacturing with Microcasting: Processing, Thermal and Mechanical Issues
  C.H. Amon, J.L. Beuth, R. Merz, F.B. Prinz, and L. Weiss
  Journal of Manufacturing Science and Engineering, Vol. 120, No. 3, 1998, pp. 656 - 502. [Abstract]

• Designing and Prototyping Interactive Fluid Dynamics Exhibits for the Carnegie Science Center: An Undergraduate Team Project Experience
  S. Finger and C. Amon
  ASEE / IEEE Frontiers in Education Conference, Vol. 1, November, 1997, pp. 366 - 370. [Abstract]
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• Shape Deposition Manufacturing With Microcasting
  C. Amon, S. Finger, R. Merz, F.B. Prinz, K. Schmalz, and L. Weiss
  Journal of the Japan Welding Society, Vol. 66, No. 4, June, 1997, pp. 64-69.