Mom
(The Mother of all Bibliographies of Rapid Prototyping Articles)

Mom contains nearly 6,000 RP citations for 1984 through 2006. Most references have abstracts or terse, pithy descriptions in lieu of an abstract. Citations cover all aspects of RP, including systems, materials, software and applications. Many business related articles and short notes are also included. This collection represents the effulgent incunabula of the field of additive fabrication.

Abstracts of the Solid Freeform Fabrication Proceedings, including more than 1,000 papers, for years 1990 through 2006, trace the development of most rapid prototyping technologies from inception through commercialization. Detailed analysis of systems, materials and software are covered, as well as surveys of RP activities in specific geographic areas, industries and education. The Proceedings are the permanent record of the Solid Freeform Fabrication Symposium held annually at the University of Texas at Austin. Thanks to Dr. David Bourell and Rosalie Foster for making the material available.

Abstracts of articles from Time-Compression Technologies Magazine from the present through 1999 are included. TCT is a trade magazine with a wide engineering circulation. Almost 200 articles discuss the business and practical aspects of rapid prototyping and other time-compression methods. Numerous forward-looking research papers are also an important aspect of this archive. Thanks to former Editor Christina Fuges and CTI Publishing for permitting us to make the material available.

The database includes comprehensive material from Clemson University's Laboratory to Advance Industrial Prototyping, including abstracts of dissertation and many graduate and undergraduate research reports. Thanks very much to Elaine Hunt, Director, for making the material available to the RP community.