Method of additive manufacturing processes that builds the component by coaxial feeding of metals in the form of wire or powder.
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Additive Manufacturing of Multi-Material and Composite Parts
V. Senthilkumar (National Institute of Technology, Tiruchirappalli, India), Velmurugan C. (Indian Institute of Information Technology, Tiruchirappalli, India), K. R. Balasubramanian (National Institute of Technology, Tiruchirappalli, India), and M. Kumaran (National Institute of Technology, Tiruchirappalli, India)
Copyright: © 2020
|Pages: 20
DOI: 10.4018/978-1-7998-4054-1.ch007
Abstract
Additive manufacturing (AM) technology can be employed to produce multimaterial parts. In this approach, multiple types of materials are used for the fabrication of a single part. Custom-built functionally graded, heterogeneous, or porous structures and composite materials can be fabricated thorough this process. In this method, metals, plastics, and ceramics have been used with suitable AM methods to obtain multi-material products depending on functional requirements. The process of making composite materials by AM can either be performed during the material deposition process or by a hybrid process in which the combination of different materials can be performed before or after AM as a previous or subsequent stage of production of a component. Composite processes can be employed to produce functionally graded materials (FGM).