Understanding additive manufacturing : rapid prototyping, rapid tooling, rapid manufacturing

• Main Author: Gebhardt, Andreas, (Author)
• Format: eBook
• Language: English
• Published: Munich ; Cincinnati : Hanser Publishers, ©2012.
• Subjects: Additive manufacturing.; elektronické knihy; electronic books
• ISBN: 9783446431621; 3446431624; 9781621985037; 1621985032; 9781569905074; 156990507X; 9783446425521; 3446425527
• Physical Description: 1 online resource (ix, 164 pages) : illustrations (some color)

Additive Manufacturing (AM) is the worldwide used term for layer oriented or generative manufacturing which originally was introduced at the end of the 1980s as Rapid Prototyping. Within the last 20 years it has developed dramatically. Today it is not just a valuable tool for making models and proto...