Sustainability-induced dual-level optimization of additive manufacturing process

摘要: 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 both prototyping functional part fabrication. With rapid development additive technologies, future US economy clearly looks bright, process sustainability such devices are not well studied. This paper addresses much needed aspects processes. More specifically, material wastage energy consumption two major concerns processes that requires immediate attention. In this research, at layer level enabling towards formulated optimized. Numerous real world examples demonstrated compared against conventional approaches to demonstrate applicability developed approach. The models here selective laser sintering (SLS) can be easily extended other technologies with little or no modification. Limitations proposed research also discussed.