Multi-material Additive Manufacturing: Processing, Properties, Opportunities, and Challenges

by Ajit Behera PhD (Editor), Tuan Anh Nguyen PhD (Editor)

Overview

Multi-material Additive Manufacturing: Processing, Properties, Opportunities, and Challenges outlines various methods for the additive manufacturing of multi-material polymers, metals, ceramics, and metal-ceramics, showing readers how to tailor these materials with specific properties and specialized applications. The first section of the book discusses the role of machine and process parameters, the selection of raw materials, interface control, thermodynamic calculations, and process simulations. The second section covers additive manufacturing techniques for multi-materials, and the book concludes with a section covering the different multi-materials that can be produced and their various applications, such as in electronics, biomedical engineering, and high-end mechanical instruments.

Product Details

ISBN-13:	9780443292286
Publisher:	Elsevier Science
Publication date:	05/30/2025
Series:	Additive Manufacturing Materials and Technologies
Pages:	576
Product dimensions:	6.00(w) x 9.00(h) x (d)

About the Author

Dr. Ajit Behera is currently working as an Assistant Professor in the Department of Metallurgical & Materials Engineering at the National Institute of Technology, Rourkela. He completed his PhD from IIT, Kharagpur, in 2016. He received the National “IEI Young Engineer Award” in 2022, “Yuva Rattan Award” in 2020, “C.V. Raman Award” in 2019, and “young faculty award” in 2017. He has published more than 202 publications including books, book chapters, and journals. Five PhD students were awarded under his supervision, and more than 10 PhD students from his institute/outside the institute are working on different research projects with him. He has successfully completed 25 industrial/research projects and organized 12 industrial-academia collaborative conferences.

Tuan Anh Nguyen is a Senior Principal Research Scientist at the Institute for Tropical Technology, Vietnam Academy of Science and Technology, Hanoi, Vietnam. He received a BS in physics from Hanoi University in 1992, a BS in economics from Hanoi National Economics University in 1997, and a PhD in chemistry from the Paris Diderot University, France, in 2003. He was a Visiting Scientist at Seoul National University, South Korea, in 2004, and the University of Wollongong, Australia, in 2005. He then worked as a Postdoctoral Research Associate and Research Scientist at Montana State University, United States in 2006-09. In 2012 he was appointed as the Head of the Microanalysis Department at the Institute for Tropical Technology. His research areas of interest include smart sensors, smart networks, smart hospitals, smart cities, complexiverse, and digital twins. He has edited more than 74 books for Elsevier, 12 books for CRC Press, 1 book for Springer, 1 book for RSC, and 2 books for IGI Global. He is the Editor-in-Chief of Kenkyu Journal of Nanotechnology & Nanoscience.

Table of Contents

1. Introduction to multi-material manufacturing
2. Role of Process parameters in multi-material manufacturing
3. Interface science in multi-material additive manufacturing
4. Thermodynamic calculation and process simulation
5. Print orientation comparison for multi-materials
6. Functionally graded additive manufacturing
7. Multi-material additive manufacturing methods and materials
8. Multi-material additive manufacturing of polymers
9. Multi-material additive manufacturing of metals and alloys
10. Multi-material additive manufacturing of multifunctional metal-ceramic structures
11. Challenges and Critical Issues of Various Multi-materials for Additive Manufacturing
12. Laser-Based Multi-material Additive Manufacturing
13. Electron Beam-Based Multi-material Additive Manufacturing
14. Laminated-Based Multi-material Additive Manufacturing
15. Multimaterial Additive Manufacturing of Sensors and Actuators
16. Biocompatibility and Biomedical engineering of multi-material additive manufacturing
17. Soft Multi-material Systems
18. Application of Multi-material additive manufactured structures in high end industries
19. Multi-material additive manufacturing and future scope and expected progress

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Outlines various methods for the additive manufacturing of multi-material polymers, metals, ceramics, and metal-ceramics