Additive Manufacturing Technology

Additive Manufacturing Technology Highly comprehensive resource covering all key aspects of the current developments of additive manufacturing Additive Manufacturing Technology: Design, Optimization, and Modeling provides comprehensive and in-depth knowledge of the latest advances in various additive manufacturing technologies for polymeric materials, metals, multi-materials, functionally graded materials, and cell-laden bio-inks. It also details the application of numerical modeling in facilitating the design and optimization of materials, processes, and printed parts in additive manufacturing. The topics covered in this book include:

• Fundamentals and applications of 4D printing, 3D bioprinting of cell-laden bio-inks, and multi-material additive manufacturing
• Alloy design for metal additive manufacturing, mechanisms of metallurgical defect formation, and the mechanical properties of printed alloys
• Modified inherent strain method for the rapid prediction of residual stress and distortion within parts fabricated by additive manufacturing
• Modeling of the different stages in polymer and metal additive manufacturing processes, including powder spreading, melting, and thermal stress evolution By providing extensive coverage of highly relevant concepts and important topics in the field of additive manufacturing, this book highlights its essential role in Industry 4.0 and serves as a valuable resource for scientists, engineers, and students in materials science, engineering, and biomedicine.

*Kun Zhou is Professor of Mechanical Engineering in the School of Mechanical and Aerospace Engineering at Nanyang Technological University, Singapore. His research interests focus on mechanics of materials and additive manufacturing. He has founded the journal Smart Manufacturing and serves as its Editor-in-Chief. He is also a co-founder of Journal of Micromechanics and Molecular Physics and serves as its Co-Editor-in-Chief. He is a Fellow of Institution of Mechanical Engineers, Royal Aeronautical Society, Royal Society of Chemistry, Institute of Physics, and Institute of Materials, Minerals & Mining.*

Auteur
Kun Zhou is Associate Professor at the School of Mechanical & Aerospace Engineering, Nanyang Technological University (NTU), Singapore. He received both his B.Eng. and M.Eng. degrees in mechanical engineering from Tsinghua University, China in 1998 and 2001, respectively, and his Ph.D. in engineering mechanics from NTU in 2006. He worked as a Postdoctoral Fellow at the Department of Mechanical Engineering, Northwestern University, USA during 2007-2010. Currently, he serves as Programme Director to lead the Marine & Offshore section in Singapore Centre for 3D Printing. He serves as a founding Editor of Journal of Micromechanics and Molecular Physics, an Associate Editor of Mechanics Research Communication, and an Editorial Board Member of Virtual and Physical Prototyping and five other international journals.