Additive Manufacturing Materials and Technology discusses recent developments and future possibilities in additive manufacturing. The book focuses on advanced technologies and materials, with chapters centered on shape memory materials, alloys and metals, polymers, ceramics, thermosets, biomaterials, and composites. Fiber-reinforced materials are covered as well, as are the lifecycle and performance criteria of 3D printed materials. Other chapters look at the various applications of these materials and processing techniques, covering their use in the aerospace and automotive sectors, construction, bioengineering, and the pharmaceutical industry.
Various additive manufacturing techniques such as electron beam melting, selective laser melting, laser sintered, fused deposition, and more are also studied.
Table of Contents
1. Introduction to additive manufacturing
2. Material Advancements and Standards in 3D Printing Materials: Polymers, Metals, and Composites
3. Smart Functional and Shape Memory Materials
4. Metal-Based Additive Manufacturing: Advancements and Case Studies
5. Case Studies on Material and Technology Advancements in Electron Beam Melting (EBM) and Selective Laser Melting (SLM)
6. Additive Manufacturing in Automotive and Aerospace Technologies
7. Additive Manufactured Ceramics and Ceramic Composites
8. Post-Processing Strategies for Additive Manufactured Metal, Metal Composite, and Ceramic Materials
9. Additive Manufacturing Technologies in Construction-Based Materials
10. Advancements and Case Studies in 3D-Printing of Polymer and Polymer Composites through SLS and FDM
11. Challenges in Making Polymer and Composite Filament for FDM Printers
12. Failure Models for FDM 3D Printed Specimens
13. 3D-Printing of Thermosets and their Corresponding Composites
14. Advancements in fiber reinforced materials in 3D printing
15. Pharmaceutical technologies and applications of additive manufacturing
16. Bio-based additive manufacturing
17. 3D printing of Biomaterials for Tissue Engineering
18. Role of 3D Printing in Sports and Prosthetics
19. Design for Additive Manufacturing of Cellular Structures
20. Additive Manufactured Metallic and Bone Tissue Advancements
21. Assessment of the Additive Manufacturing Process Life Cycle and Economics
22. Future Prospects and Constraints of Additive Manufacturing
