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Original Articles

Customised design and manufacture of protective face masks combining a practitioner-friendly modelling approach and low-cost devices for digitising and additive manufacturing

This paper analyses the viability of replacing conventional practice with AM method to make customized protective face masks

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Pages 251-261 | Received 27 Jun 2014, Accepted 13 Aug 2014, Published online: 18 Sep 2014

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