Additive Manufacturing and 3D Printing Technology: Principles and Applications

"This standard textbook consists of the construction and working details of all modern as well as fundamentals of Additive Manufacturing and 3D Printing technology processes and machines. The book is written so that it will help the reader to understand the systems fundamentally. This book provides a selection of additive manufacturing techniques suitable for near term application with enough technical background to understand the domain, applicability, and to consider variations to suit technical and organization constraints. It will highlight new innovative 3D Printing systems, present a view of 4D Printing, and promote a vision of additive manufacturing and applications toward modern manufacturing engineering practices. With the block diagrams, self-explanatory figures, chapter questions, and photographs of lab developed prototypes, along with case studies, this new textbook will be useful to students studying courses in Mechanical, Production, Design, Mechatronics, and Electrical Engineering"--