Additive Manufacturing: Current State, Future Potential, Gaps and Needs, and Recommendations

Huang, Yong; Leu, Ming C.; Mazumder, Jyoti; Dönmez, Alkan

doi:10.1115/1.4028725

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“…Once Design for Additive Manufacturing is well understood, that knowledge must be disseminated to current and future members of industry. Thus, AM-specific design education [19][122] [150] and design standards [19] are also needed.…”

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Design for Additive Manufacturing: Trends, opportunities, considerations, and constraints

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The past few decades have seen substantial growth in Additive Manufacturing (AM) technologies. However, this growth has mainly been process-driven. The evolution of engineering design to take advantage of the possibilities afforded by AM and to manage the constraints associated with the technology has lagged behind. This paper presents the major opportunities, constraints, and economic considerations for Design for Additive Manufacturing. It explores issues related to design and redesign for direct and indirect AM production. It also highlights key industrial applications, outlines future challenges, and identifies promising directions for research and the exploitation of AM's full potential in industry.Design, Manufacturing, Additive Manufacturing

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“…The potential of printing multiple materials, is something that could bring advantages in the construction industry, but research is needed to develop new construction materials that are optimized for use in AM while still providing desirable structural performance. At the same time, these new materials must be economical for AM to become a feasible alternative in construction [35].…”

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Applications of Additive Manufacturing in the Construction Industry A Prospective Review

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O’Brien

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Proceedings of the International Symposium on Automation and Robotics in Construction (IAARC)

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Additive manufacturing (AM), also known as 3D printing, produces components by building-up structures from small deposits of materials. Many of the early applications of AM technologies have been in the aerospace, automotive, and healthcare industries. Building on the advances in AM in these industries, there are several experimental applications of AM in the construction sector. Early investigations suggest that use of AM technologies for construction have the potential to decrease labour costs, reduce material waste, and create customized complex geometries that are difficult to achieve using conventional construction techniques. However, these initial investigations do not cover the full range of potential applications for construction or exploit the rapidly maturing AM technologies for a variety of material types. This paper provides an up-to-date review of AM as it relates to the construction industry, identifies the trend of AM processes and materials being used, discusses related methods of implementing AM, and potential advancements in applications of AM. Examples of potential advancements in methods and applications include multi-material use (e.g., use of high-performance materials only in areas where they are needed), in-situ repair in locations that are difficult or dangerous for humans to access, disaster relief construction in areas with limited construction workforce and material resources, structural and non-structural elements with optimized topologies, and customized parts of high value. AM's future in the construction industry is promising, but interdisciplinary research is still needed to provide new materials, new processes, faster printing, quality assurance, and data on mechanical properties before AM can realize its full potential in infrastructure construction.

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“…Such advancements come with process tradeoffs and knowledge gaps. 28 As such, the immediate impact of AM is being seen in tooling for reductive manufacturing approaches. As the industry matures, it will need to overcome the challenges inherent in creating degrees of control without a full understanding of how that control impacts long-term performance under extreme conditions.…”

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Perspective: Materials informatics across the product lifecycle: Selection, manufacturing, and certification

Mulholland

Paradiso

2016

APL Materials

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The process of taking a new material from invention to deployment can take 20 years or more. Since the announcement of the Materials Genome Initiative in 2011, new attention has been paid to accelerating this timeframe to address key challenges in industries from energy, to biomedical materials, to catalysis, to polymers, particularly in the development of new materials discovery techniques. Materials informatics, or algorithmically analyzing materials data at scale to gain novel insight, has been lauded as a path forward in this regard. An equal challenge to discovery, however, is the acceleration from discovery to market. In this paper, we address application of an informatics approach to materials selection, manufacturing, and qualification and identify key opportunities and challenges in each of these areas with a focus on reducing time to market for new advanced materials technologies.

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Additive Manufacturing: Current State, Future Potential, Gaps and Needs, and Recommendations

Cited by 737 publications

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Design for Additive Manufacturing: Trends, opportunities, considerations, and constraints

Design for Additive Manufacturing: Trends, opportunities, considerations, and constraints

Applications of Additive Manufacturing in the Construction Industry A Prospective Review

Perspective: Materials informatics across the product lifecycle: Selection, manufacturing, and certification

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Additive Manufacturing: Current State, Future Potential, Gaps and Needs, and Recommendations

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Design for Additive Manufacturing: Trends, opportunities, considerations, and constraints

Design for Additive Manufacturing: Trends, opportunities, considerations, and constraints

Applications of Additive Manufacturing in the Construction Industry  A Prospective Review

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