Additive Manufacturing: Materials, Processes, Quantifications and Applications

Additive Manufacturing: Materials, Processes, Quantifications and Applications is designed to explain the engineering aspects and physical principles of available AM technologies and their most relevant applications. It begins with a review of the recent developments in this technology and then progresses to a discussion of the criteria needed to successfully select an AM technology for the embodiment of a particular design, discussing material compatibility, interfaces issues and strength requirements. The book concludes with a review of the applications in various industries, including bio, energy, aerospace and electronics.

This book will be a must read for those interested in a practical, comprehensive introduction to additive manufacturing, an area with tremendous potential for producing high-value, complex, individually customized parts. As 3D printing technology advances, both in hardware and software, together with reduced materials cost and complexity of creating 3D printed items, these applications are quickly expanding into the mass market.

• Includes a discussion of the historical development and physical principles of current AM technologies
• Exposes readers to the engineering principles for evaluating and quantifying AM technologies
• Explores the uses of Additive Manufacturing in various industries, most notably aerospace, medical, energy and electronics

Material scientists, researchers, engineers, managers working in the additive manufacturing industries; university professors, scientists, and high level undergrad and graduate students studying AM processes

1. Overview of additive manufacturing process
Michael Molitch-hou
2. Additive manufacturing process and equipment
William Jarosinksi and Jing Zhang
3. Additive manufacturing of metallic materials
Michael Zenou and Lucy Grainger
4. Additive manufacturing of ceramic materials
Saeed Maleksaeedi and Tassilo Moritz
5. Additive manufacturing of polymeric materials
Dimitris Karalekas, Joe Koo, Jay Sanjayan and Sophia N. Economidou
6. Quantification and certification of additive manufacturing materials and process
Chang-Jun Bae
7. Modelling and simulation of additive manufacturing process
Jing Zhang
8. Additive manufacturing for medical applications
Kim Van Meensel, Jean Pierre Kruth, Jan Van Humbeeck, Sasan Dadbakhsh, Brecht Van Hooreweder, Kim Van Meensel, Pavel Krakhmalev, Igor Yadroitsev and Michael Francis
9. Additive Manufacturing for Advanced Medical Device Applications
Michael Francis