Design for Additive Manufacturing: Concepts and Considerations for the Aerospace Industry
In the coming decades, the growth in AM will likely be driven by
production parts that leverage this increase in design freedom to
manufacture parts of higher performance and improved material
utilization. Contrary to popular opinion, however, AM processes do
have their constraints and limitations - not everything can be
manufactured with AM, and even when it is feasible, not everything
should.
Design for Additive Manufacturing: Concepts and Considerations
for the Aerospace Industry, edited by Dr. Dhruv Bhate, is a
collection of ten seminal SAE International technical papers, which
cover AM from the perspective of the appropriateness (should) and
feasibility (can) of using AM for manufacturing of parts and
tooling.
Although AM technologies have been around for three decades, many
in the industry believe that we are merely at the beginning of the
revolution in the design-driven aspects of this technology. Indeed,
half the papers in this selection were published only in the past
two years, and all but one in the past decade. When it comes to
design for AM, it is a safe bet that the best is yet to be.
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