4D Printing of Composites
Methods and Applications
- 1st Edition - September 1, 2024
- Editors: Gurminder Singh, Ranvijay Kumar, Sunpreet Singh, Chaudhery Mustansar Hussain
- Language: English
- Paperback ISBN:9 7 8 - 0 - 4 4 3 - 2 1 5 1 8 - 6
- eBook ISBN:9 7 8 - 0 - 4 4 3 - 2 1 5 1 7 - 9
4D Printing of Composites: Methods and Applications provides comprehensive coverage of the theory behind this emerging technology, its impact on materials development, functiona… Read more
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Request a sales quote4D Printing of Composites: Methods and Applications provides comprehensive coverage of the theory behind this emerging technology, its impact on materials development, functional characterization, and the technical details required for readers to investigate novel emerging applications. The advantages and limitations of the technology are discussed in detail as well as laboratory developments, industrial implications, commercialization, and avenues for future development. The book will be a valuable reference resource for academic and industrial researchers working in materials science, mechanical engineering, and product design and those working in composite materials development and manufacturing engineering in various industries.
4D printing is positioned to provide a disruptive transformation in how products are designed and manufactured. As a result of the development of functionalized and smart feedstock systems, 4D printing has introduced novel models for developing special feature enabled products that can serve a wide range of scientific and engineering applications, including recent breakthroughs in regenerative biomedicine, food, and construction. In addition, the unique combination of composite materials and 4D-printing methods allows us to exploit the characteristics and stimuli features of composites to create shape memory effects for various applications.
- Provides in-depth, technical discussions on the mechanisms of 4D printing for composites
- Covers 4D printing process modelling and optimization
- Includes mathematical/simulation studies of composite 4D printing
- Examines multi-material 4D printing of different composite materials
- Discusses 4D printing features of developed industrial products and their characterization
Academic and industrial researchers in materials science, mechanical engineering, and product design and those working in composite materials development and manufacturing engineering in aerospace, automobile, pharmaceutical, construction and biomedical industries.Postgraduate students in materials science, product design and manufacturing, and engineering
1. 3D to 4D PRINTING: Perspective & developments
2. Direct 4D PRINTING of Composite Materials
3. Meta Structures 4D printing of thermoplastic composites for smart microscale bioengineering
4. Multi Materials/Hybrid Composite 4D Printing
5. Mathematical/Simulation studies of composite 4D printing
6. 4D-Printable Polymeric Smart Materials for Tissue Engineering
7. 4D Printing of Composites: Challenges and Commercialization
8. 4D PRINTING of composites- Avenues of future
9. Social and Economic aspects of 4D printing
2. Direct 4D PRINTING of Composite Materials
3. Meta Structures 4D printing of thermoplastic composites for smart microscale bioengineering
4. Multi Materials/Hybrid Composite 4D Printing
5. Mathematical/Simulation studies of composite 4D printing
6. 4D-Printable Polymeric Smart Materials for Tissue Engineering
7. 4D Printing of Composites: Challenges and Commercialization
8. 4D PRINTING of composites- Avenues of future
9. Social and Economic aspects of 4D printing
- No. of pages: 350
- Language: English
- Edition: 1
- Published: September 1, 2024
- Imprint: Woodhead Publishing
- Paperback ISBN: 9780443215186
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Gurminder Singh
Prof. Gurminder Singh is currently working as an assistant professor at the mechanical engineering department, Indian Institute of Technology Bombay, India. He worked as a postdoc researcher in the school of mechanical and materials engineering at University College Dublin (UCD), Dublin, Ireland. Before joining UCD, Dr Singh was a Postdoc fellow at SIMAP Lab, University of Grenoble Alpes, France, where his research focused on the experimental and simulation studies of the extrusion 3D printing of metals. Dr Singh was Gandhian young Technological Innovation Award for the development of a 3D printing method for the fabrication of patient-specific stents in 2020. He has published over 26 articles in peer-reviewed international journals, conference proceedings and books. He has published in leading journals such as Additive Manufacturing, Materials Science and Engineering: A, Journal of Manufacturing Processes, Rapid Prototyping, etc.
Affiliations and expertise
Assistant Professor, Department of Mechanical Engineering, Indian Institute of Technology Bombay, Powai, Mumbai, IndiaRK
Ranvijay Kumar
Dr. Ranvijay Kumar is an Assistant Professor at University Centre for Research and Development, Chandigarh University. He received a Ph.D. in Mechanical Engineering from Punjabi University, Patiala. His research interests include: additive manufacturing, shape memory polymers, smart materials, friction-based welding techniques, advanced materials processing, polymer matrix composite preparations, reinforced polymer composites for 3D printing, plastic solid waste management, thermosetting recycling, and destructive testing of materials
Affiliations and expertise
Assistant Professor, University Centre for Research and Development, Chandigarh University, Mohali, Punjab, IndiaSS
Sunpreet Singh
Sunpreet Singh is researcher in NUS Nanoscience & Nanotechnology Initiative (NUSNNI). He has received Ph.D in Mechanical Engineering from Guru Nanak Dev Engineering College, Ludhiana, India. He has contributed extensively in additive manufacturing literature with publications appearing in Journal of Manufacturing Processes, Composite Part: B, Rapid Prototyping Journal, Journal of Mechanical Science and Technology, Measurement, International Journal of Advance Manufacturing Technology, and Journal of Cleaner Production. He has authored more than 150+ research papers and book chapters. He is also editor of 3 books- "Current Trends in Bio-manufacturing", “3D Printing in Biomedical Engineering”, and "Biomaterials in Orthopaedics and Bone Regeneration - Design and Synthesis". He is also guest editor of several journals- special issue of “Functional Materials and Advanced Manufacturing”, Facta Universitatis, series: Mechanical Engineering (Scopus Indexed), Materials Science Forum (Scopus Indexed), and special issue on “Metrology in Materials and Advanced Manufacturing”, Measurement and Control (SCI indexed), Materials, Sustainability (MDPI).
Affiliations and expertise
Department of Mechanical Engineering, National University of Singapore, SingaporeCM
Chaudhery Mustansar Hussain
Prof. Chaudhery Mustansar Hussain is an Adjunct Professor and Director of laboratories in the Department of Chemistry & Environmental Sciences at the New Jersey Institute of Technology (NJIT), Newark, New Jersey, United States. His research is focused on the applications of nanotechnology and advanced materials, environmental management, analytical chemistry, and other various industries. Dr. Hussain is the author of numerous papers in peer-reviewed journals as well as a prolific author and editor of around 150 books, including scientific monographs and handbooks in his research areas.
Affiliations and expertise
New Jersey Institute of Technology, Newark, NJ, USA