From additive manufacturing to 3D/4D printing. 1 From concepts to achievements

Summary: In 1984, additive manufacturing represented a new methodology for manipulating matter, consisting of harnessing materials and/or energy to create three-dimensional physical objects. Today, additive manufacturing technologies represent a market of around 5 billion euros per year, with an annual growth between 20 and 30%. Different processes, materials and dimensions (from nanometer to decameter) within additive manufacturing techniques have led to 70,000 publications on this topic and to several thousand patents with applications as wide-ranging as domestic uses. Volume 1 of this series of books presents these different technologies with illustrative industrial examples. In addition to the strengths of 3D methods, this book also covers their weaknesses and the developments envisaged in terms of incremental innovations to overcome them.

Record details

ISBN: 9781786301192
ISBN: 9781786301192
ISBN: 1786301199
ISBN: 1119428513
ISBN: 9781119428510
ISBN: 1119437393
ISBN: 9781119437390
Physical Description: 1 online resource : color illustrations
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Publisher: London, UK : ISTE ; Hoboken, NJ, USA : Wiley, [2017]

Content descriptions

Bibliography, etc. Note:	Includes bibliographical references and index.
Formatted Contents Note:	Part 1. From Spectacular Applications to the Economic Market of Additive Manufacturing -- Chapter 1. Some Significant Examples -- Maritime, military, aerial and spatial applications -- Conception: art and new domestic applicative niches -- Art and additive manufacturing -- Archaeology, museum restoration, reproduction -- Construction sector -- Mechanical parts -- Land transport -- The question of spare parts -- Toys for the young and the "not-so-young" -- "Traditional" medical applications -- From Additive Manufacturing to 3D/4D Printing -- Scientific applications -- Optics -- Chemical and process engineering -- Complex structures -- Toward the infinitely small -- Nanometric origami -- Chapter 2. Integration of Additive Manufacturing Technologies into Society -- Markets and application domains of 3D printing -- Markets -- Principal application niches -- Growth dynamics -- Studies on the dynamic of growth -- Convergence -- "Attractiveness" of additive manufacturing technologies -- Possible positioning of the industry -- Toward a certain stabilization: The dynamics of innovation -- Part 2. 3D Processes -- Chapter 3. Processes, Machines and Materials -- Stereolithography -- History of 2D1/2 processes -- Other techniques developed since 1984 -- Light-matter interaction and space-resolved polymerization --Consequences -- Families of materials used -- Layer implementation -- Coupling of polymerized surface generation and volumetric reduction -- Process of wire fusion -- FDM or FFF materials -- Adhesion -- Synthesis -- Sheet or powder gluing process -- Bi-material process (SDL) -- Variant using powders: 3DP Process -- Process using a cross-linkable polymer (SIR, for "Soluble/Insoluble Reaction") -- Synthesis -- fusion/sintering -- Materials -- Energy sources --. Physicochemical aspects and constraints linked to the process -- Simultaneous contribution of matter and energy -- MPA process -- Synthesis.
Source of Description Note:	Online resource; title from PDF title page (EBSCO, viewed November 09, 2017).