Advances in 3D Printing & Additive Manufacturing Technologies

This edited volume comprises select chapters on advanced technologies for 3D printing and additive manufacturing and how these technologies have changed the face of direct, digital technologies for rapid production of models, prototypes and patterns. Because of its wide applications, 3D printing and additive manufacturing technology has become a powerful new industrial revolution in the field of manufacturing. The evolution of 3D printing and additive manufacturing technologies has changed design, engineering and manufacturing processes across industries such as consumer products, aerospace, medical devices and automotives. The objective of this book is to help designers, R&D personnel, and practicing engineers understand the state-of-the-art developments in the field of 3D Printing and Additive Manufacturing. 

Professor David Ian Wimpenny is currently appointed as the Chief Technologist at the Manufacturing Technology Centre (MTC), Coventry, UK. He joined MTC in the year 2011 as a Technology Manager, and is working as a full time Technologist of the Component Technology Group at the MTC.  He is the member of Technology Strategy Board Panel. Prof. Wimpenny is a Funding Advisor of National Science Foundation (NSF) since 2006. He is the Chairman of the Additive Manufacturing & 3D Printing Forum for the HVM Catapult. His past roles include being head of the research at De Montfort University, Leicester, UK from 2009 to 2011 and director of Additive Manufacturing Technology Group in the Department of Engineering & Technology at De Montfort University from 2001 to 2011. Professor David Ian Wimpenny is also the member of the Additive Manufacturing Special Interest Group (AM-SIG) which was established by the Technology Strategy Board to develop a road map for the UK AM sector. He has served as an international reviewer for several international conference committees. His major activities are in the area of Additive Manufacturing, Rapid Product Development, Laser Printing, Surface Engineering and Manufacturing Production Tooling. He has published more than 60 papers in international/national journals and presented papers in seminars and international conferences. He has 3 patents to his credit and is involved with several major industries for Rapid Prototyping, Reverse Engineering and Computer Aided Design. He has guided 6 PhD students (awarded) and over 150 MSc students in his capacity as a professor. He is also a member of the review committees of several reputed international journals, including Additive Manufacturing, Rapid Prototyping and Materials Processing Technology. Professor David Ian Wimpenny has 2 books to his credit, Digital Model Production and Digital Design and Manufacturing in Dentistry. He was also a co-editor of the Rapid Prototyping Case Book.

Dr. Pulak M. Pandey completed his B.Tech. degree from H.B.T.I. Kanpur in 1993 securing first position  and got Master’s degree from IIT Kanpur in 1995 in Manufacturing Science specialization. He served H.B.T.I. Kanpur as faculty member for approximately 8 years and also completed Ph.D. in the area of Additive Manufacturing/3D Printing from IIT Kanpur in 2003. He joined IIT Delhi as a faculty member in 2004 and is presently continuing as Associate Professor there. In IIT Delhi, Dr Pandey diversified his research areas in the field of micro and nano finishing, micro-deposition and also continued working in the area of 3D Printing (Selective Laser Sintering). He supervised 11 PhDs and more than 25 M.Tech theses in last 10 years and also filed 10 Indian patent applications. He has approximately 60 international journal papers and 35 international/national refereed conference papers to his credit. These papers have been citedfor more than 1340 times with h-index as 20. He received Highly Commended Paper Award by Rapid Prototyping Journal for the paper “Experimental investigations into the effect of delay time on part strength in Selective Laser Sintering” presented in International Conference on Manufacturing Automation (ICMA 07)  held at National University  of Singapore during May 28-30, 2007. Many of his B.Tech. and M.Tech. supervised projects have been awarded by IIT Delhi. He is recipient of Outstanding Young Faculty Fellowship (IIT Delhi) sponsored by Kusuma Trust, Gibraltar and J.M. Mahajan outstanding teacher award of IIT Delhi. Dr Pandey is also an active reviewer of many leading international journals in the field of manufacturing science. He is an Editorial Board Member of the Rapid Product Development (RPD) Magazine endorsed by RP Society of India, French RP Association, Portuguese RP Association, Standard and Industrial Research Malaysia. Recently he has been invited as an editorialmember of Mechanics of Advanced Materials and Modern Processes journal published by Springer. He is an active member of Additive Manufacturing Society of India. He was the team leader of one of the assessment teams for Academic Excellence Award 2009, UP Technical University, Lucknow. Recently, he led a delegation of 10 members to UK in the area of additive manufacturing and 3D Printing sponsored by British High Commission, India. During Additive Manufacturing Society of India's recent conference-AM 2015, Dr. P M Pandey has been awarded the award of appreciation as the leading researcher in additive manufacturing field in India.

Mr. Jyothish Kumar is the Founder CEO of Rapitech Solutions Inc., Bangalore and also he is Founder President of Additive Manufacturing Society of India (AMSI), Bangalore. He gained his Bachelor of Engineering in Mechanical Engineering from The National Institute of Engineering, Mysore and Master’s degree in Rapid Product Developmentfrom De Montfort University, UK. Mr.Kumar is currently pursuing PhD research in Aerospace Applications of Additive Manufacturing Technologies. Prior to that Mr. Kumar has served in the mechanical engineering industry’s different disciplines such as Quality Assurance, Marketing, Sales and Product Development in India and abroad. He has specialized experience in Quality management Systems and Rapid Product Development which have been responsible in spearheading Rapitech Solutions Inc’s., efforts to streamline the business development operations for its customers. Mr. Jyothish Kumar brings credible experience and knowledge from his project work at RPMG, UK, association with other high scale (€9M) European Union funded projects with 33 other partners across Europe including Delcam Plc (UK), Materialise (Belgium) and Ducati (Italy), developing a new rapid prototyping process based on a combination of laser printing (electro photography) and Infrared sintering polymers. He holds Memorandum of Understanding (MOU) with international organization French Rapid Prototyping Association (APRF) & Central Manufacturing Research and Development Institute (CMRDI). Mr. Kumar is the Managing Editor of The Additive Manufacturing Technology Magazine (www.ammagazine.in), the only Magazine in India in 3D Printing & Additive Manufacturing Technologies. He was an Expert Speaker at 7th CII Annual Manufacturing Conference – Make in India: Rejuvenating Indian Manufacturing, 14-15 November 2014, Bangalore, India. He was a Keynote Speaker at 19th European Forum for Additive Manufacturing Technologies, 24-26 June, 2014, Paris, France. He has delivered expert talk at more than 20 engineering colleges in India and more than 12 Industries including defence and private organization. He has organized & guided as a convener for 1st, 2nd, 3rd, 4th & 5th International Conference on Additive Manufacturing Technologies and also convener for upcoming 6th International Conference on AdditiveManufacturing Technologies which is scheduled to be held during 6-7th October, 2016 at Bangalore.