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Sustainability-induced dual-level optimization of additive manufacturing process

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Additive manufacturing (AM) is considered as the standalone production house for customized parts of different varieties. AM has found applications in various industries including medical and aerospace for both prototyping and functional part fabrication. With rapid development in additive manufacturing technologies, the future of US manufacturing and economy clearly looks bright, process sustainability of such AM devices are not well studied. This paper addresses much needed sustainability aspects of additive manufacturing processes. More specifically, material wastage and energy consumption are two major concerns of the AM processes that requires immediate attention. In this research, process both at layer and part level enabling additive manufacturing process towards sustainability is formulated and optimized. Numerous real world examples are demonstrated and compared against conventional approaches to demonstrate the applicability of the developed approach. The models formulated here for selective laser sintering (SLS) process can be easily extended to other additive manufacturing technologies with little or no modification. Limitations of proposed research are also discussed.

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Verma, A., Rai, R. Sustainability-induced dual-level optimization of additive manufacturing process. Int J Adv Manuf Technol 88, 1945–1959 (2017). https://doi.org/10.1007/s00170-016-8905-9

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