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The effects and interactions of fabrication parameters on the properties of selective laser sintered hydroxyapatite polyamide composite biomaterials by Savalani, M.M., Hao, L., Dickens, P.M., Zhang, Y., Tanner, K.E., Harris, R.A.

“…Purpose - Hydroxyapatite-polymer composite materials are being researched for the development of low-load bearing implants because of their bioactive and…”
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Rapid laminated die-cast tooling by Gibbons, Gregory John, Hansell, Robert G, Norwood, A.J, Dickens, P.M

“…This paper details the development of a rapid tooling manufacturing route for the gravity and high-pressure die-casting industries, resulting from an EPSRC…”
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Parallelized direct execution simulation of message-passing parallel programs by Dickens, P.M., Heidelberger, P., Nicol, D.M.

“…As massively parallel computers proliferate, there is growing interest in finding ways by which performance of massively parallel codes can be efficiently…”
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The effect of interface topography for Ultrasonic Consolidation of aluminium by Friel, R.J., Johnson, K.E., Dickens, P.M., Harris, R.A.

“…Ultrasonic Consolidation (UC) is an additive manufacturing technology which is based on the sequential solid-state ultrasonic welding of metal foils. UC…”
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Optimum process parameters for ultrasonic consolidation of 3003 aluminium by Kong, C.Y, Soar, R.C, Dickens, P.M

“…In this paper, the ultrasonic consolidation (UC) process is presented for the direct fabrication of monolithic aluminium tooling and components. UC is a…”
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Ultrasonic consolidation for embedding SMA fibres within aluminium matrices by Kong, C.Y., Soar, R.C., Dickens, P.M.

“…For this paper, adaptive composites will be considered as structural materials for advanced aerospace applications which have the ability to measure and…”
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Characterisation of aluminium alloy 6061 for the ultrasonic consolidation process by Kong, C.Y., Soar, R.C., Dickens, P.M.

“…Ultrasonic consolidation (UC) is a freeform fabrication technique developed for the layered fabrication of metal parts. The process uses a high intensity…”
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The structure of parts produced by stereolithography injection mould tools and the effect on part shrinkage by Harris, R.A., Hague, R.J.M., Dickens, P.M.

“…Stereolithography (SL) tooling for plastic injection moulding provides a low cost and quick alternative to hard tooling methods when producing a small quantity…”
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Part shrinkage anomilies from stereolithography injection mould tooling by Harris, R.A, Newlyn, H.A, Hague, R.J.M, Dickens, P.M

“…The use of stereolithography (SL) tooling allows plastic parts to be produced by injection moulding in a very short time due to the speed of mould production…”
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Structural design and resin drainage characteristics of QuickCast 2.0 by Hague, R., D'Costa, G., Dickens, P.M.

“…Describes how a set of criteria for the design of build structures that allow the successful autoclaving and subsequent investment casting of stereolithography…”
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The measurement of heat distribution in stereolithography electrodes during electro-discharge machining by Arthur, A., Dickens, P.M.

“…Early work by the authors explored the potential for manufacture of electrodischarge machining (EDM) electrodes, using rapid prototyping (RP) technologies. A…”
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Images, models and tongue tumours by Giles, M., Dickens, P.M., Fisher, S.E., McConachie, N., Griffin, N.R.

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Conversion of RP models to investment castings by Dickens, P.M., Stangroom, R., Greul, M., Holmer, B., Hon, K.K.B., Hovtun, R., Neumann, R., Noeken, S., Wimpenny, D.

“…The Tooling and Casting subgroup of the European Action on Rapid Prototyping (EARP) has undertaken a project to investigate the problems associated with using…”
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Improving collective I/O performance using threads by Dickens, P.M., Thakur, R.

“…Massively parallel computers are increasingly being used to solve large, I/O intensive applications in many different fields. For such applications, the I/O…”
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An evaluation of object-based data transfers on high performance networks by Dickens, P.M., Gropp, W.

“…We describe FOBS: a simple user-level communication protocol designed to take advantage of the available bandwidth in a high-bandwidth, high-delay network…”
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Using Object Based Files for High Performance Parallel I/O by Logan, J., Dickens, P.M.

“…We contend that the scalable I/O problem in high performance computing is largely due to the legacy view of a file as a linear sequence of bytes. In this paper…”
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Diagnostics for causes of packet loss in a high performance data transfer system by Dickens, P.M., Larson, J.W., Nicol, D.M.

“…Summary form only given. As computational grids become an increasingly dominant force in the high-performance computing arena, the problem of efficiently…”
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Rapid laminated diecast tooling by Gibbons, Gregory John, Hansell, Robert G., Norwood, A.J., Dickens, P.M.

“…This paper details the development of a rapid tooling manufacturing route for the gravity and highpressure diecasting industries, resulting from an EPSRC…”
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Parallelized network simulators for message-passing parallel programs by Dickens, P.M., Heidelberger, P., Nicol, D.M.

“…This paper describes a software tool, LAPSE (Large Application Parallel Simulation Environment), for the simulation of large-scale programs written for the…”
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A workstation-based parallel direct-execution simulator by Dickens, P.M.

“…It is important to understand and efficiently predict the performance of large codes executing on massively parallel machines. However, these very large…”
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