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Additive Manufacturing Technologies Rapid Prototyping to Direct Digital Manufacturing

Additive Manufacturing Technologies

I. Gibson

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D. W. Rosen

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B. Stucker

Additive Manufacturing Technologies Rapid Prototyping to Direct Digital Manufacturing

Dr. Ian Gibson Department of Mechanical & Production Engineering National University of Singapore 9 Engineering Drive 1 Singapore 117576 Singapore [email protected]

Dr. David W. Rosen The George W. Woodruff School of Mechanical Engineering Georgia Institute of Technology 813 Ferst Drive, N.W. Atlanta, GA 30332-0405 USA [email protected]

Dr. Brent Stucker Department of Mechanical & Aerospace Engineering Utah State University 4130 Old Main Hall Logan, UT 84322 USA [email protected]

ISBN: 978-1-4419-1119-3 e-ISBN: 978-1-4419-1120-9 DOI 10.1007/978-1-4419-1120-9 Springer New York Heidelberg Dordrecht London Library of Congress Control Number: 2009934499 # Springer ScienceþBusiness Media, LLC 2010 All rights reserved. This work may not be translated or copied in whole or in part without the written permission of the publisher (Springer Science+Business Media, LLC, 233 Spring Street, New York, NY 10013, USA), except for brief excerpts in connection with reviews or scholarly analysis. Use in connection with any form of information storage and retrieval, electronic adaptation, computer software, or by similar or dissimilar methodology now known or hereafter developed is forbidden. The use in this publication of trade names, trademarks, service marks, and similar terms, even if they are not identified as such, is not to be taken as an expression of opinion as to whether or not they are subject to proprietary rights. Cover design: The Cover Artwork is Courtesy of Bathsheba Grossman and Bathsheba Sculpture LLC Printed on acid-free paper Springer is part of Springer Science+Business Media (www.springer.com)

Preface

Thank you for taking the time to read this book on Additive Manufacturing (AM). We hope you benefit from the time and effort it has taken putting it together and that you think it was a worthwhile undertaking. It all started as a discussion at a conference in Portugal when we realized that we were putting together books with similar aims and objectives. Since we are friends as well as colleagues, it seemed sensible that we join forces rather than compete; sharing the load and playing to each others’ strengths undoubtedly means a better all-round effort and result. We wrote this book because we have all been working in the field of AM for many years. Although none of us like to be called “old,” we do seem to have decades of experience, collectively, and have each established reputations as educators and researchers in this field. We have each seen the technologies described in this book take shape and develop into serious commercial tools, with tens of thousands of users and many millions of parts being made by AM machines each year. AM is now being incorporated into curricula in many schools, polytechnics and universities around the world. More and