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Laser Additive Manufacturing
Materials, Design, Technologies, and Applications
- 1st Edition - September 1, 2016
- Editor: Milan Brandt
- Language: English
- Hardback ISBN:9 7 8 - 0 - 0 8 - 1 0 0 4 3 3 - 3
- eBook ISBN:9 7 8 - 0 - 0 8 - 1 0 0 4 3 4 - 0
Laser Additive Manufacturing: Materials, Design, Technologies, and Applications provides the latest information on this highly efficient method of layer-based manufactu… Read more
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Request a sales quoteLaser Additive Manufacturing: Materials, Design, Technologies, and Applications provides the latest information on this highly efficient method of layer-based manufacturing using metals, plastics, or composite materials. The technology is particularly suitable for the production of complex components with high precision for a range of industries, including aerospace, automotive, and medical engineering.
This book provides a comprehensive review of the technology and its range of applications. Part One looks at materials suitable for laser AM processes, with Part Two discussing design strategies for AM. Parts Three and Four review the most widely-used AM technique, powder bed fusion (PBF) and discuss other AM techniques, such as directed energy deposition, sheet lamination, jetting techniques, extrusion techniques, and vat photopolymerization. The final section explores the range of applications of laser AM.
- Provides a comprehensive one-volume overview of advances in laser additive manufacturing
- Presents detailed coverage of the latest techniques used for laser additive manufacturing
- Reviews both established and emerging areas of application
Manufacturers, design engineers and R&D managers working in the automotive, aerospace, energy, electronics and medical engineering industries. Materials scientists, mechanical and electronics engineers working in laser research
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- Woodhead Publishing Series in Electronic and Optical Materials
- The role of lasers in additive manufacturing
- Part One. Processes, technology and materials
- 1. Laser-aided direct metal deposition of metals and alloys
- 1.1. Introduction
- 1.2. Review of the laser-cladding process
- 1.3. Material microstructure design and realization
- 1.4. Experimental procedure
- 1.5. Results and discussion
- 1.6. Summary and conclusion
- 2. Powder bed fusion processes: An overview
- 2.1. Process characteristics
- 2.2. Processing parameters
- 2.3. Characteristics of the melt pool
- 2.4. Microstructural features
- 2.5. Mechanical properties of SLM-processed metallic parts
- 2.6. Concluding remarks
- 3. Hybrid laser manufacturing
- 3.1. Introduction
- 3.2. Overview of possible hybrid laser manufacturing procedures
- 3.3. Improving process performance by adding thermal heat sources
- 3.4. Hybrid approaches using mechanical impacts
- 3.5. Conclusions and outlook
- 4. Surface roughness optimisation for selective laser melting (SLM): Accommodating relevant and irrelevant surfaces
- 4.1. Introduction
- 4.2. Additive manufacturing
- 4.3. Roughness
- 4.4. Case studies
- 4.5. Conclusions
- Nomenclature
- 5. Mechanical properties of Ti6Al4V and AlSi12Mg lattice structures manufactured by Selective Laser Melting (SLM)
- 5.1. Introduction
- 5.2. Lattice structures
- 5.3. Selective laser melting manufacturability
- 5.4. Compressive testing results
- 5.5. Concluding remarks
- Nomenclature
- 6. Laser additive manufacturing of ceramic components: Materials, processes, and mechanisms
- 6.1. Introduction
- 6.2. Ceramic materials and conventional fabrication
- 6.3. AM processes for ceramics
- 6.4. Applications of additive manufactured ceramics
- 6.5. Conclusion and outlook
- 7. Powder bed fusion of polymers
- 7.1. Introduction
- 7.2. Laser sintering: basic principles
- 7.3. Materials for laser sintering
- 7.4. Material properties: physical
- 7.5. Material properties: thermal
- 7.6. Processing parameters
- 7.7. Processing Effects
- 7.8. Other polymer powder bed fusion systems
- 7.9. Conclusion
- 8. Polymer nanocomposites for laser additive manufacturing
- 8.1. Introduction
- 8.2. Experimental approach
- 8.3. Results and discussion
- 8.4. Summary and conclusions
- 9. Laser additive manufacturing using nanofabrication by integrated two-photon polymerization and multiphoton ablation
- 9.1. Introduction
- 9.2. Additive nanofabrication using two-photon polymerization
- 9.3. Subtractive micro-/nanofabrication using multiphoton ablation
- 9.4. Comprehensive 3D micro-/nanofabrication
- 9.5. Conclusions
- 1. Laser-aided direct metal deposition of metals and alloys
- Part Two. Design strategies and life cycle costs
- 10. Design for laser additive manufacturing
- 10.1. Introduction
- 10.2. Design restrictions of LAM
- 10.3. Product design approaches for LAM
- 10.4. Summary and conclusion
- 11. Modelling of laser additive manufactured product lifecycle costs
- 11.1. Introduction into profitability and part selection for additive manufacturing
- 11.2. Introduction to lifecycle costing in additive manufacturing
- 11.3. Production costs
- 11.4. Self-costs
- 11.5. Lifecycle costs
- 11.6. Aspects of product piracy for lifecycle costing
- 11.7. Product piracy and additive manufacturing
- 11.8. Measures to prevent product piracy with the help of additive manufacturing: design for protection
- 11.9. Working with guidelines during product development
- 11.10. Technology and cost development
- 11.11. Summary and Outlook
- 10. Design for laser additive manufacturing
- Part Three. Applications
- 12. Laser additive manufacturing of embedded electronics
- 12.1. Introduction
- 12.2. Laser-induced forward transfer of discrete components
- 12.3. Laser-induced forward transfer of functional materials systems
- 12.4. Laser-induced forward transfer of embedded circuit
- 12.5. Summary and outlook
- 13. Aerospace applications of laser additive manufacturing
- 13.1. Introduction
- 13.2. Aerospace component fabrication with additive manufacturing
- 13.3. Aerospace component repair with additive manufacturing
- 13.4. Challenges and potential future applications
- 14. Laser sintering of ceramic materials for aeronautical and astronautical applications
- 14.1. Introduction
- 14.2. Conventional manufacturing methods for ceramic components
- 14.3. Applications of ceramics in aeronautics and astronautics
- 14.4. Laser additive manufacturing methods for ceramic components
- 14.5. Future developments
- 14.6. Conclusions
- 15. Laser additive manufacturing of customized prosthetics and implants for biomedical applications
- 15.1. Introduction
- 15.2. Biocompatible materials and properties
- 15.3. Process chain for customized prosthetics and implants
- 15.4. Applications
- 15.5. Summary
- 16. Laser additive printing of cells
- 16.1. Introduction
- 16.2. Laser-assisted bioprinting
- 16.3. Applications
- 16.4. Discussion
- 16.5. Summary
- 17. Additive manufacture of tools and dies for metal forming
- 17.1. Introduction
- 17.2. Layer-laminated manufacturing
- 17.3. Powder bed–based additive manufacturing
- 17.4. Conclusion
- 12. Laser additive manufacturing of embedded electronics
- Index
- No. of pages: 498
- Language: English
- Edition: 1
- Published: September 1, 2016
- Imprint: Woodhead Publishing
- Hardback ISBN: 9780081004333
- eBook ISBN: 9780081004340
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Milan Brandt
Milan Brandt is Professor of Advanced Manufacturing in the School of Aerospace, Mechanical and Manufacturing Engineering at RMIT University, Australia. With 25 years’ experience, Professor Brandt is one of the world’s leading experts on laser additive manufacturing. He has published widely on laser manufacturing, served as a board member of the Laser Institute of America on several occasions as well as on the advisory boards of major international conferences such as the annual International Congress on the Application of Lasers and Opto-Electronics (ICALEO).
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Professor of Advanced Manufacturing, School of Aerospace, Mechanical and Manufacturing Engineering, RMIT University, AustraliaRead Laser Additive Manufacturing on ScienceDirect