Tentative - Table of Content
Section I: Introduction to additive manufacturing
1. Evolutions in Additive Manufacturing
(Developments in additive manufacturing, history, types of additive manufacturing, etc.)
2. Advances in additive manufacturing
(Research on build directions / orientation, powder bed fusion (DMLS) and direct energy deposition such as Clading, WAAM, etc. for real time product / component development)
Section II: Additive manufacturing and materials development
3. Challenges in additive manufacturing for metals and alloys (3D printing of alloys such as Ti, Ni, Co, Fe and other metals through additive manufacturing)
4. Additive manufacturing for lightweight materials (3D printing of lightweight polymer materials and its engineering applications)
5. Role of additive manufacturing in biomedical engineering (To describe role of additive manufacturing in developments of biomedical instruments and implants)
Section III: Post Processing and investigations on 3D built materials
6. Heat treatments and metallurgical investigations on 3D printed samples
(Handling 3D materials with different heat treatment cycles / plans for properties enhancements) 7. Machinability of 3D printed materials
(The advanced machining studies involved in 3D printed material for finishing process and its related studies)
8. Surface Coatings and surface modification techniques
(Surface modification techniques such as coatings, deposits, surface oxidation, surface texturing, etc. for engineering applications)
9. Tribological behaviour of additive manufacturing materials
(The surface behaviour such as sliding wear, solid particle erosion, erosion - corrosion and fretting wear of the materials built through additive manufacturing)
10. Mechanical testing of additive manufacturing materials
(The combination of mechanical properties such as axial stress, impact load, fatigue, creep, hardness, deformability, etc., of 3D built materials)
