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Sustainability Analysis of Fused Deposition Modelling Process

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Fused Deposition Modeling Based 3D Printing

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Fused deposition modelling (FDM) is a popular additive manufacturing technology. This chapter discusses FDM process from the perspective of sustainability. Sustainability is one of the main concerns in the present era of manufacturing. The assessment of sustainability is important for comparison of the productivity and efficiency of FDM with other manufacturing processes. All the three facets of sustainability, i.e., economic, environmental and societal need to be addressed. In this article, the cost-analysis of FDM is carried considering it to be the first pillar of sustainability-analysis. The necessary cost variables and their importance are discussed for developing the cost model. For environmental sustainability, an analytical approach for the estimation of energy consumption, highlighting various energy-consuming elements, is discussed. Initially, deterministic cost and energy consumption models are presented, which are later converted to fuzzy set based models for handling uncertainties. The main uncertain variables are considered as fuzzy and the output values are obtained by carrying out fuzzy arithmetic operations. The values obtained from the fuzzy set based models are in the form of triplets (low, most likely and high), from which linear triangular membership functions can be constructed. Amongst the three aspects, the societal aspect is the least explored by researchers. This article makes an attempt to study the impact of FDM based additive manufacturing processes on the society. The overall sustainability analysis of two parts, manufactured by FDM, is presented.

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Sharma, F., Dixit, U.S. (2021). Sustainability Analysis of Fused Deposition Modelling Process. In: Dave, H.K., Davim, J.P. (eds) Fused Deposition Modeling Based 3D Printing. Materials Forming, Machining and Tribology. Springer, Cham. https://doi.org/10.1007/978-3-030-68024-4_13

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