Additive Manufacturing Technologies (3rd edition)
by Ian Gibson, David Rosen, Brent Stucker, Mahyar Khorasani · Springer
Graduate textbook on additive manufacturing covering the process physics of each technology family, polymer and metal materials science, design for additive manufacturing, post-processing, metrology, software workflows, and applications in aerospace and medicine, with exercises and primary-literature references.
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