3D Printing Manufacturing Techniques, Materials, and Applications: An Overview

D Srinivasan,C Chanakyan,T Ram Prabhu,M Meignanamoorthy,S V Alagarsamy,V Mohanavel,S Rajkumar,M Ravichandran,Alagar Karthick,S Sakthivelu

doi:10.1155/2021/5756563

Abstract

3D printing, also called additive manufacturing (AM), is a method of creating 3D solid parts from a digital document. By utilizing additive routes, the fabrication of 3D-printed objects can be made. These layers can be viewed as a gently cut level cross-area of the manifest object. 3D printing is somewhat in obstruction to subtractive manufacture, which is expelling/discharging out a touch of metal or plastic for the occurrence of a milling machine. 3D printing authorizes creating multifarious profiles employing fewer materials than conventional fabrication systems. This review article provides the general idea of 3D printing production techniques, materials used, and applications in the aircraft and automobile industry and biomedical fields.

Highlights

Advances in Materials Science and Engineering computerized 3D model according to the prerequisite
Several materials having a place with many groupings such as composites, polymers, and ceramics could be used in ventures such as automation, aviation, medical services and clinics, gadgets, food, and some more [3]. e 3D printing method presents a frontline innovation in the territory of prototyping and component improvement method in the present production drift
Utilizing 3D printing fabricating methods, it is currently conceivable to construct the geometry of the confounded structure, which was very monotonous in the subtractive production method. 3D printing is characterized as the method where the 3D CAD model is finished into the component via saving material layer over the other [4]. e 3D printing process was developed in the 1980s, commonly notorious as additive manufacturing (AM). 3D printing has quickly accumulated broad concentration and created as a developing production method. us, it was broadly embraced in different fields, such as design gems, polymer printed materials, applied autonomy and mechanization, tissue and frameworks, and gadgets items. 3D printing helped the application fields as indicated by its few qualities, for example, brief timeframe process, minimal effort, customization, and material decrease

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Introduction

Customary techniques for production want a serious extent of graceful supply chain management, need enormous work supremacy 3D printing process to be robotized, and depend on CAD programming to print items utilizing an assortment of materials, radically lessening the measure of supply chain management. E powder-based system is one of the 3D printing production techniques It uses regular and traditional inkjet print heads for the fabrication of components. Powder-based systems can be classified into four major categories: Laser Metal Deposition LMD, DMLS, SLM, and EBM. LMD is a 3D printing fabricating process that utilizes a laser beam to shape a pool of dissolved metal (a soften pool) outside a metallic substrate into which metal powder is infused utilizing a gas stream. DMLS is a laser-based 3D printing process, in which an entity is manufactured one layer over another utilizing powdered metal, radiant heaters, and a computer-operated laser. SLM is a 3D printing method intended to utilize a high force thickness laser to liquefy and combine metallic powders.

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