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Guidelines for Process Selection
AM processes, like all material processing, are constrained by material properties, speed, cost, and accuracy. The performance capabilities of AM...
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Material Extrusion
Material Extrusion (MEX) machines have, by far, the largest install base of any AM technology. Inexpensive machines are sold to hobbyists at hardware...
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Design for Additive Manufacturing
The benefits and drawbacks of Additive Manufacturing Technologies enable designers to think beyond traditional design for manufacture and assembly...
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Direct Write Technologies
Direct Write (DW) technologies are a collection of AM and related approaches for creation of very small components. Most of these approaches were...
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Hybrid Additive Manufacturing
As manufacturing systems have evolved from manual to powered to automated processes over the past 200 years, it is common to find examples of...
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Business and Societal Implications of AM
The unique attributes of Additive Manufacturing offer opportunities for new types of business enterprises. These opportunities include new types of...
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Industrial Drivers for AM Adoption
Additive Manufacturing is in its fourth decade of commercial technological development. Over that time, we have experienced a number of significant...
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Development of Additive Manufacturing Technology
It is important to understand that AM was not developed in isolation from other technologies. It would not be possible for AM to exist were it not...
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Materials for Additive Manufacturing
Good materials are crucial for effective AM, and different processes require these materials to be prepared in different ways. Some AM processes are...
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The Impact of Low-Cost AM Systems
Since 2010, Additive Manufacturing has gone from a niche prototyping technology primarily known to the manufacturing, design, and engineering...
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Rapid Tooling
This chapter discusses how Additive Manufacturing can be used to develop tooling solutions. Although AM is not well-suited to high-volume production...
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Generalized Additive Manufacturing Process Chain
Although there are an increasing number of AM technologies and variants, they nearly all use a similar process chain. This eight-step process is...
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Software for Additive Manufacturing
This chapter deals with software that is commonly used for Additive Manufacturing. In particular, we will discuss the STL file format that is used by...
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Binder Jetting
Binder Jetting (BJT) methods were developed in the early 1990s, primarily at MIT. They developed what they called the 3D Printing (3DP) process in...
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Sheet Lamination
Sheet Lamination (SHL) was one of the earliest commercialized AM techniques, but it has had only limited success in the marketplace. In SHL, sheets...
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Introduction and Basic Principles
The technology described in this book was originally referred to as Rapid Prototyping. The term Rapid Prototyping (or RP) is used to describe a...
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Direct Digital Manufacturing
From the mid-1980s to the present, the percentage of parts made from Additive Manufacturing that are used as final, production parts has consistently...
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Post-Processing
Throughout this book we have discussed geometric accuracy, surface finish, and property limitations of AM. When a part comes out of an AM machine,...
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Material Jetting
Printing technologies progressed rapidly as the adoption of personal computers spread through offices and homes. Inkjet printing, in particular, is a...
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Directed Energy Deposition
Directed Energy Deposition (DED) is a method for melting material as it is being deposited layer-by-layer. Material in wire or powder form is...