Additive Manufacturing Innovations, Advances, and Applications

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Автор: Srivatsan T.S., Sudarshan T.S.

Название: Additive Manufacturing Innovations, Advances, and Applications

Издательство: CRC Press

Год: 2015

Формат: PDF

Размер: 20.8mb

язык: английский

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The innovation of creating a three-dimensional object layer by layer using computer-aided design (CAD) was originally termed rapid prototyping, a valuable technique that was developed in the early 1980s for the purpose of manufacturing. In its early stages, rapid prototyping was typically used to create models and prototype parts and offered quick realization of what engineers had envisioned. Rapid prototyping was one of the preliminary processes that eventually culminated in additive manufacturing (AM), which allows the production of actual printed parts, in addition to models. The most notable advances the process offers are the development and production of products with a noticeable reduction in both time and cost, facilitated by increased human interaction and optimization of the product development cycle, thus making it possible to create almost any shape that would otherwise be difficult to machine using conventional techniques. With the emergence of additive manufacturing, scientists, engineers, and even students can rapidly build and analyze models for the purpose of theoretical comprehension and related studies. In the medical profession, doctors have been able to build models of various parts of the body to analyze injuries or disease and to plan appropriate medical procedures. Additive manufacturing has also made it possible for market researchers to gather the opinions of potential buyers of newly developed products and for artists to explore their creativity.