Multiple material additive manufacturing - Part 1: A review: This review paper covers a decade of research on multiple material additive manufacturing technologies which can produce complex geometry parts with different materials

Virtual and Physical Prototyping

Volumn 8, Issue 1, 2013, Pages 19-50

  Vaezi, Mohammad ^a   Chianrabutra, Srisit ^a   Mellor, Brian ^a   Yang, Shoufeng ^a  

^a UNIVERSITY OF SOUTHAMPTON   (United Kingdom)

Author keywords

3D printing; additive manufacturing; multiple material additive manufacturing; multiple material objects; rapid prototyping

Indexed keywords

3-D PRINTING; ADDITIVE MANUFACTURING; ADDITIVE MANUFACTURING TECHNOLOGY; COMPLEX GEOMETRIES; DIFFERENT MATERIALS; MULTI-FUNCTIONAL STRUCTURES; MULTIPLE MATERIALS; STATE OF THE ART;

INDUSTRIAL RESEARCH; MANUFACTURE; MECHANICAL PROPERTIES; RAPID PROTOTYPING; TECHNOLOGY;

MATERIALS;

EID: 84876983822     PISSN: 17452759     EISSN: 17452767     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1080/17452759.2013.778175     Document Type: Review

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