Sustainability Study of Additive Manufacturing Enabled Part Consolidation

Additive manufacturing of aluminium alloy has paved way for the recent advancement in the automobile and aerospace industry due to its light weightlessness and good physical and mechanical features.Even though the additive process has an upper hand in terms of complexity and monotonous nature of the process its sustainability of it over traditional manufacturing is still a question when the whole cycle of the process is considered.This study mainly focuses on the quantitative life cycle analysis conducted on AlSi10Mg with cast AlSi10Mg as a baseline. Life cycle assessment measures environmental impacts, to determine where most impacts arise: machine and supporting hardware; aluminium powder material used, or electricity used to print