Multi-material Additive Manufacturing: Processing, Properties, Opportunities, and Challenges outlines various methods for the additive manufacturing of multi-material polymers, metals, ceramics, and metal-ceramics, showing readers how to tailor these materials with specific properties and specialized applications. The first section of the book discusses the role of machine and process parameters, the selection of raw materials, interface control, thermodynamic calculations, and process simulations. The second section covers additive manufacturing techniques for multi-materials, and the book concludes with a section covering the different multi-materials that can be produced and their various applications, such as in electronics, biomedical engineering, and high-end mechanical instruments.
Table of Contents
1. Introduction to multi-material manufacturing2. Role of Process parameters in multi-material manufacturing
3. Interface science in multi-material additive manufacturing
4. Thermodynamic calculation and process simulation
5. Print orientation comparison for multi-materials
6. Functionally graded additive manufacturing
7. Multi-material additive manufacturing methods and materials
8. Multi-material additive manufacturing of polymers
9. Multi-material additive manufacturing of metals and alloys
10. Multi-material additive manufacturing of multifunctional metal-ceramic structures
11. Challenges and Critical Issues of Various Multi-materials for Additive Manufacturing
12. Laser-Based Multi-material Additive Manufacturing
13. Electron Beam-Based Multi-material Additive Manufacturing
14. Laminated-Based Multi-material Additive Manufacturing
15. Multimaterial Additive Manufacturing of Sensors and Actuators
16. Biocompatibility and Biomedical engineering of multi-material additive manufacturing
17. Soft Multi-material Systems
18. Application of Multi-material additive manufactured structures in high end industries
19. Multi-material additive manufacturing and future scope and expected progress
Authors
Ajit Behera Assistant Professor, Metallurgical and Materials Engineering Department, National Institute of Technology, Rourkela, Odisha, India.Dr. Ajit Behera is an Assistant Professor in the Metallurgical and Materials Department at the National Institute of Technology, India. He completed his Ph.D. from IIT-Kharagpur in 2016. Dr. Behera has received several prestigious awards, including the National "Yuva Rattan Award" in 2020, the "Young Faculty Award" in 2017, and the "C.V. Raman Award" in 2019. His research interests encompass smart materials, additive manufacturing, 3D & 4D printing, NiTi-alloys, plasma surface engineering, nanotechnology, magnetron-sputtered thin film, cryo-treatment, and the utilization of industrial waste. Dr. Behera has also contributed to the field with the publication of two patents related to smart materials.
Tuan Anh Nguyen Senior Principal Research Scientist, Institute for Tropical Technology, Vietnam Academy of Science and Technology, Hanoi, Vietnam. Tuan Anh Nguyen is Senior Principal Research Scientist at the Institute for Tropical Technology, Vietnam Academy of Science and Technology, Vietnam. He received B.S. in Physics from Hanoi University in 1992, and Ph.D. in Chemistry from the Paris Diderot University (France) in 2003. He was Visiting Scientist at Seoul National University (South Korea, 2004) and University of Wollongong (Australia, 2005). He then worked as Postdoctoral Research Associate and Research Scientist in the Montana State University (USA), 2006-2009. In 2012, he was appointed as the Head of the Microanalysis Department at Institute for Tropical Technology. His research activities include smart sensors, smart networks, smart hospitals, smart cities and digital twins. He edited over 70 Elsevier, 12 CRC Press, 1 Springer, 1 RSC and 2 IGI Global books. He is Editor-In-Chief of "Kenkyu Journal of Nanotechnology & Nanoscience".
