Handbook of Sustainability in Additive Manufacturing

Download or read book Handbook of Sustainability in Additive Manufacturing written by Subramanian Senthilkannan Muthu and published by Springer. This book was released on 2016-03-02 with total page 172 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: This book highlights the sustainability aspects of additive manufacturing (AM) in two separate volumes. It describes the details of this technology and its implications on the entire product life cycle sustainability, as well as embedded carbon and the further research needed to move this technology towards sustainable, mainstream production. Sustainability is not new for any area of industry, including additive manufacturing, and there are currently a number of ongoing research projects, both in industry and in academic institutions, that are investigating sustainability, embedded carbon and research activities which would need to be done in the future to move this technology towards sustainable mainstream production.