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Ultrasound Added Additive Manufacturing for Metals and Composites: Process and Control

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Additive and Subtractive Manufacturing of Composites

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Additive manufacturing (AM), also referred as 3D printing, is becoming the backbone of the industrial production system to manufacture cost-effective, lighter, more robust, and reliable structural components. This paper aims to quickly review the research progress of ultrasonic vibration-assisted AM of metals and composites. Standardized methods of ultrasonic vibration addition into the AM processes have been dealt including a thorough discussion of their effects on metal’s and composite’s properties. This work also emphasizes the milestones in the ultrasonic vibration-assisted manufacturing techniques in terms of its importance of integration and mode of applications to enhance and smoothen the production process. Further, it will be observed how the process variants in ultrasonic AM have induced the functionality and embraced for a wide range of production.

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  1. MOE Key Lab for Liquid-Solid Structure Evolution and Materials Processing, Institute of Materials Joining, Shandong University, Jinan, 250061, People’s Republic of China

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  2. Department of Materials Science and Engineering, National Institute of Technology, Hamirpur (H.P.), India

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Kumar, S., Kishor, B. (2021). Ultrasound Added Additive Manufacturing for Metals and Composites: Process and Control. In: Mavinkere Rangappa, S., Gupta, M.K., Siengchin, S., Song, Q. (eds) Additive and Subtractive Manufacturing of Composites. Springer Series in Advanced Manufacturing. Springer, Singapore. https://doi.org/10.1007/978-981-16-3184-9_3

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