Abstract
Additive manufacturing (AM) processes are steadily gaining attention from many industrial fields, as they are revolutionizing components’ designs and production lines. However, the full application of these technologies to industrial manufacturing has to be supported by the study of the AM materials’ properties and their correlations with the feedstock and the building conditions. Furthermore, nowadays, only a limited number of materials processable by AM are available on the market. It is, therefore, fundamental to widen the materials’ portfolio and to study and develop new materials that can take advantage of these unique building processes. The present special issue collects recent research activities on these topics.
Highlights
Additive manufacturing (AM) is an innovative class of production technologies, which is often considered to have a large impact in all manufacturing activities, as it allows for the production of complex-shaped components without the need of dedicated tools [1]
This family of production techniques had a large success in recent years, thanks to the design freedom that it is possible to achieve, and thanks to the possibility to produce customized components and to reduce time to market and costs of some production lines [2]
Several studies recently investigated the processability and the properties of Ultem 9085, which is a thermoplastic polymer especially designed by Stratasys for the fused deposition modelling (FDM) process [6]
Summary
Additive manufacturing (AM) is an innovative class of production technologies, which is often considered to have a large impact in all manufacturing activities, as it allows for the production of complex-shaped components without the need of dedicated tools [1]. This family of production techniques had a large success in recent years, thanks to the design freedom that it is possible to achieve, and thanks to the possibility to produce customized components and to reduce time to market and costs of some production lines [2]
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