This book provides a concise introduction to additive manufacturing, accessible to anyone with a basic background in engineering and materials science. The author explains additive manufacturing (AM) in terms of advantages and disadvantages and gives a concise list of advantages and disadvantages, enabling readers to understand AM in relation to other techniques. Additionally, this book clarifies various contradictions with the help of numerous examples.

This book:

• Offers readers a unique, accelerated learning tool, revealing the subtleties of Additive Manufacturing
• Describes a concept for refabrication in the context of additive manufacturing, providing new insight into repair and refurbishment
• Discusses additive manufacturing not only as a design tool, but also a production tool in the context of mass-production

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Dr Sanjay Kumar did his Ph. D. in additive manufacturing from Catholic University Leuven, Belgium in 2008. Before that, he did B. Sc. (Hons), M. Sc. (Physics) and M. Tech. (Surface Engineering) from India. He did post-doctoral research in additive manufacturing at following places: Utah State University, USA; National Laser Centre, Pretoria, South Africa; Shanghai Jiao Tong University, Shanghai, China; York University, Toronto, Canada. He has published several research papers in additive manufacturing (h-index-18). Dr. Kumar is the author of Additive Manufacturing Processes, 2020, Additive Manufacturing Solutions, 2022, and Additive Manufacturing Classification, 2022, Springer, Cham.