State-of-the-art overview of additive manufacturing techniques with an emphasis on processes, product designs and applications

This book offers a thorough overview of additive manufacturing technologies, including manufacturing requirements, product design, optimization of processes and product parameters to reduce manufacturing costs. It provides a comprehensive and state-of-the-art review on various additive manufacturing technologies, their advantages, shortcomings, potential applications and future directions. Sample topics discussed by the three well-qualified editors on the topic of additive manufacturing include:

• Areas of application in the fields of electronics, aerospace, construction, automobile, sports and biomedicine
• Material considerations, the requirement of specific design, fabrication and processing methods
• Advantages and disadvantages of various 3D printing techniques for the respectively intended applications

This book is an immensely valuable resource for researchers working in the field of additive manufacturing or 3D printing, or for developers dealing with the processing and manufacturing of materials and products for advanced technologies.

Kalim Deshmukh is presently working as a senior researcher at the New Technologies Research Centre, University of West Bohemia, Pilsen, Czech Republic. He has more than 15 years of research experience in the field of synthesis, characterization and investigation of structure-property relationship of a wide variety of polymeric materials, polymer blends and nanocomposites for various technological applications.

S.K. Khadheer Pasha is currently working as a Senior Assistant Professor in the Department of Physics, Vellore Institute of Technology, Andhra-Pradesh (VIT-AP) University, India. He has more than ten years of teaching and 13 years of research experience. His research interest involves preparation of polymer nanocomposite materials for energy storage, supercapacitor and chemical sensing applications.

Kishor Kumar Sadasivuni is leader of the group Smart NanoSolutions at the Center for Advanced Materials, Qatar University. He is recognized authority in the fields of polymer nanocomposites, composite materials and biomedical device designs especially for diabetics and heart failure.