Special Issue Focus: Additive Manufacturing

Introduction to Special NIST Journal of Research Issue on Additive Manufacturing

Additive manufacturing (AM) or “3D-printing,” which is another term often used to describe all additive manufacturing processes but is in fact just a subset of AM technologies, has received substantial and rapidly growing attention in recent years in both the popular press and in technical publications. Phrases like “make anything at any time,” “art to part,” and “complexity is free,” along wit...

Special Issue: Advances in Computer Aided Manufacturing

In 2007 we have computing power and infrastructure that are emarkable in terms of both speed and cost. A casual observer ould expect the effects of this technological “free lunch” on omputer Aided Manufacturing CAM to be an equally dramatic dvance. However it is a measure of this field’s difficulty that very ew of the problems, which invariably involve complex threeimensional geometry, can be s...

Special Issue: Advances in Computer Aided Manufacturing

In 2007 we have computing power and infrastructure that are emarkable in terms of both speed and cost. A casual observer ould expect the effects of this technological “free lunch” on omputer Aided Manufacturing CAM to be an equally dramatic dvance. However it is a measure of this field’s difficulty that very ew of the problems, which invariably involve complex threeimensional geometry, can be s...

Special Issue: Advances in Computer Aided Manufacturing

In 2007 we have computing power and infrastructure that are emarkable in terms of both speed and cost. A casual observer ould expect the effects of this technological “free lunch” on omputer Aided Manufacturing CAM to be an equally dramatic dvance. However it is a measure of this field’s difficulty that very ew of the problems, which invariably involve complex threeimensional geometry, can be s...

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