Additive Manufacturing Processes

This book provides a single-source reference to additive manufacturing, accessible to anyone with a basic background in engineering and materials science.  Unlike other books on additive manufacturing that include coverages of things such as machine architecture, applications, business and present market conditions, this book focuses on providing comprehensive coverage of currently available additive manufacturing processes.  All processes are explained with the help of various, original diagrams, useful for beginners and advanced researchers alike.

• Provides comprehensive coverages of all current processes available in additive manufacturing;
• Explains processes with the help of various original diagrams;
• Explains future process development at the last chapter, providing research outlook;
• Includes extensive references at the end of each chapter for further reading of original research.

Introduction.- Powder-based Process.- Photo-polymer-based process.- Liquid Jetting technique.- Material extrusion process.- Blown Powder technique.- Sheet material based process.- Other additive manufacturing process.

Sanjay Kumar, Ph. D (Additive manufacturing), did post-PhD research in additive manufacturing at following places: Utah State University (USA), National Laser Centre (South Africa), Shanghai Jiao Tong University (China) and York University (Canada). He has been active in additive manufacturing research for last twenty years (H-index 17).