Additive Manufacturing Technologies: Rapid Prototyping to Direct Digital Manufacturing

✍ Scribed by Ian Gibson, David W. Rosen, Brent Stucker (auth.)

• Publisher: Springer US
• Year: 2010
• Tongue: English
• Leaves: 473
• Edition: 1st Edition.
• Category: Library

✦ Synopsis

Additive Manufacturing Technologies: Rapid Prototyping to Direct Digital Manufacturing deals with various aspects of joining materials to form parts. Additive Manufacturing (AM) is an automated technique for direct conversion of 3D CAD data into physical objects using a variety of approaches. Manufacturers have been using these technologies in order to reduce development cycle times and get their products to the market quicker, more cost effectively, and with added value due to the incorporation of customizable features. Realizing the potential of AM applications, a large number of processes have been developed allowing the use of various materials ranging from plastics to metals for product development. Authors Ian Gibson, David W. Rosen and Brent Stucker explain these issues, as well as:

• Providing a comprehensive overview of AM technologies plus descriptions of support technologies like software systems and post-processing approaches
• Discussing the wide variety of new and emerging applications like micro-scale AM, medical applications, direct write electronics and Direct Digital Manufacturing of end-use components
• Introducing systematic solutions for process selection and design for AM

Additive Manufacturing Technologies: Rapid Prototyping to Direct Digital Manufacturing is the perfect book for researchers, students, practicing engineers, entrepreneurs, and manufacturing industry professionals interested in additive manufacturing.

✦ Table of Contents

Front Matter....Pages i-xxii
Introduction and Basic Principles....Pages 20-35
Development of Additive Manufacturing Technology....Pages 36-58
Generalized Additive Manufacturing Process Chain....Pages 59-77
Photopolymerization Processes....Pages 78-119
Powder Bed Fusion Processes....Pages 120-159
Extrusion-Based Systems....Pages 160-186
Printing Processes....Pages 187-222
Sheet Lamination Processes....Pages 223-252
Beam Deposition Processes....Pages 253-274
Direct Write Technologies....Pages 275-298
Design for Additive Manufacturing....Pages 299-332
Guidelines for Process Selection....Pages 333-356
Software Issues for Additive Manufacturing....Pages 357-377
Direct Digital Manufacturing....Pages 378-399
Medical Applications for Additive Manufacture....Pages 400-414
Post-Processing....Pages 415-435
The Use of Multiple Materials in Additive Manufacturing....Pages 436-449
Business Opportunities and Future Directions....Pages 450-459
Back Matter....Pages 447-459

✦ Subjects

Engineering Design; Industrial and Production Engineering; Mechanical Engineering; Manufacturing, Machines, Tools