Publisher's Synopsis
Manufacturing industries, today, encompasses a dimension scale of more than fifteen orders of magnitudes. The design and manufacture of huge machinery, ship and spacecrafts on one side while nano and pico technology on the other side of the dimension scale, highlights the challenges ahead for engineers and technologists. With the advancement of technology newer materials, energy sources, manufacturing technology, decision-making and management techniques are being developed. These unfold lot of opportunities for the scientific and academic fraternity. At the same time, newer challenges in the form of environmental and other issues put stringent requirements on the technology. Global competition, the thrust on quality and demand for higher productivity are some of the challenges before the present industrial and manufacturing units. To survive and to succeed further, the competitors have a unique option, which is understanding of the dynamic changes that are taking place in the business environment. In view of the above, a nation should develop and update its infrastructure, such that the new and advanced technology gets into hand in hand, with the ongoing time. There are several factors which are usually considered in taking a final and relevant decision about the best way of producing the desired end product. Integrating Materials and Manufacturing Innovation (IMMI) presents advances from the discovery of materials through their manufacture that upkeep the practice of Integrated Computational Materials Engineering (ICME). It emphases on offering new experimental and computational tools, data analysis and management methods, and appreciated multiscale datasets, and on the impact the use of an ICME approach has on advancing materials and manufacturing technologies. The book overs all aspects of advanced manufacturing including mechanical manufacturing, metallurgy and the material science, etc. Presents an attractive platform of authoritative and comprehensive reviews, original articles on cutting-edge research and brief communications. Additive manufacturing (AM), widely known as 3D printing, is a direct digital manufacturing process, where a component can be produced layer by layer from 3D digital data with no or minimal use of machining, molding, or casting. AM has developed rapidly in the last 10 years and has demonstrated significant potential in cost reduction of performance-critical components. This can be realized through improved design freedom, reduced material waste, and reduced post processing steps. Modeling AM processes not only provides important insight in competing physical phenomena that lead to final material properties and product quality but also provides the means to exploit the design space towards functional products and materials. This book discusses models required to span the scope of AM processes with a particular focus towards predicting as-built material characteristics and residual stresses of the final build. Verification and validation examples are presented, the over-spanning goal is to provide an overview of currently available modeling tools and how they can contribute to maturing additive manufacturing.
