A Practical Guide to Design for Additive Manufacturing

✍ Scribed by Olaf Diegel, Axel Nordin, Damien Motte

• Publisher: Springer Singapore
• Year: 2019
• Tongue: English
• Leaves: 236
• Series: Springer Series in Advanced Manufacturing
• Edition: 1st ed.
• Category: Library

✦ Synopsis

This book provides a wealth of practical guidance on how to design parts to gain the maximum benefit from what additive manufacturing (AM) can offer. It begins by describing the main AM technologies and their respective advantages and disadvantages. It then examines strategic considerations in the context of designing for additive manufacturing (DfAM), such as designing to avoid anisotropy, designing to minimize print time, and post-processing, before discussing the economics of AM.

The following chapters dive deeper into computational tools for design analysis and the optimization of AM parts, part consolidation, and tooling applications. They are followed by an in-depth chapter on designing for polymer AM and applicable design guidelines, and a chapter on designing for metal AM and its corresponding design guidelines. These chapters also address health and safety, certification and quality aspects. A dedicated chapter covers the multiple post-processing methods for AM, offering the reader practical guidance on how to get their parts from the AM machine into a shape that is ready to use. The book’s final chapter outlines future applications of AM.

The main benefit of the book is its highly practical approach: it provides directly applicable, “hands-on” information and insights to help readers adopt AM in their industry

✦ Table of Contents

Front Matter ....Pages i-xx
Introduction to Additive Manufacturing (Olaf Diegel, Axel Nordin, Damien Motte)....Pages 1-17
Additive Manufacturing Technologies (Olaf Diegel, Axel Nordin, Damien Motte)....Pages 19-39
DfAM Strategic Design Considerations (Olaf Diegel, Axel Nordin, Damien Motte)....Pages 41-70
Computational Tools for Design Analysis and Optimisation of AM Parts (Olaf Diegel, Axel Nordin, Damien Motte)....Pages 71-77
Guidelines for Part Consolidation (Olaf Diegel, Axel Nordin, Damien Motte)....Pages 79-84
Guidelines for AM Tooling Design (Olaf Diegel, Axel Nordin, Damien Motte)....Pages 85-92
Design for Polymer AM (Olaf Diegel, Axel Nordin, Damien Motte)....Pages 93-101
Polymer Design Guidelines (Olaf Diegel, Axel Nordin, Damien Motte)....Pages 103-119
Design for Metal AM (Olaf Diegel, Axel Nordin, Damien Motte)....Pages 121-155
Metal AM Guidelines (Olaf Diegel, Axel Nordin, Damien Motte)....Pages 157-173
Other AM Considerations (Olaf Diegel, Axel Nordin, Damien Motte)....Pages 175-179
Post-processing (Olaf Diegel, Axel Nordin, Damien Motte)....Pages 181-207
The Future of Additive Manufacturing (Olaf Diegel, Axel Nordin, Damien Motte)....Pages 209-216
Concluding Remarks (Olaf Diegel, Axel Nordin, Damien Motte)....Pages 217-218
Back Matter ....Pages 219-226

✦ Subjects

Engineering; Engineering Design; Nanotechnology