Comparing Environmental Impacts of Additive Manufacturing vs. Traditional Machining via Life-Cycle Assessment

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• Publication year

  2015

• Venue

  Rapid Prototyping Journal

• Publication date

  2015-01-16

• Fields of study

  Engineering, Environmental Science

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  DOI 10.1108/rpj-07-2013-0067
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  Open on Semantic Scholar

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