Damir Godec is a full Professor at the Faculty of Mechanical Engineering and Naval Architecture, University of Zagreb (UNIZAG FSB), Croatia. Since 2014, he is a head of Centre for Additive Technologies (CaTeh) at UNIZAG FSB. Since 2016, he is a guest lecturer on Additive Manufacturing with Polymers at Montanuniversität Leoben - MUL (Austria), and since 2020, he is a guest lecturer at Faculty of Polymer Technology, Slovenj Gradec (Slovenia), on subject polymer materials for 3D technologies.

Joamin Gonzalez-Gutierrez is a Privatdozent on Advanced Processing of Thermoplastic-based Particulate Composites at the Montanuniversität Leoben (MUL). Currently, he is a Research and Technology Associate at the Luxembourg of Science and Technology (LIST), where he works on developing sustainable, responsive polymeric materials for additive manufacturing.

Axel Nordin is a senior lecturer at the division ofProduct Development and director of the Mechanical Engineering with Industrial Design program at Lund University. His work focus on developing methodologies and tools for designing products that satisfies both user needs and technical constraints. His research is mainly concerned with studying aspects of integrating complex morphologies into customized products, such as computational, manufacturing, structural, and usability challenges. He is specialized in topology optimization for AM, generative design, and parametric design optimization.

Eujin Pei is the director for Postgraduate Research and director for the [...]. Product Design Engineering Programme at Brunel University London. He is a chartered engineer (CEng) and a chartered technological product designer (CTPD). His research focuses on Additive Manufacturing, and he leads the 4D Printing Research Group at Brunel University London. He is chair of the BritishStandards Institute AMT/8 Committee for Additive Manufacturing; convener of the International Organisation for Standardisation ISO/TC261/WG4 that develops global Standards for Additive Manufacturing Data and Design; and convener of ISO/TC261/JG67 for Functionally Graded Additive Manufacturing. He is the editor-in-chief for the Progress in Additive Manufacturing Journal (Springer), councilor for the Institution of Engineering Designers (IED), and a member of the Engineering Council Registration Standards Committee (RSC) in the UK. Julia Ureña is an assistant professor doctor accredited by ANECA. Her research is focused on the design, development, and processing of materials with special focus on the Powder Metallurgy and Additive Manufacturing fields. She has experience in materials development through Additive Manufacturing technologies, materials characterization and their study of mechanical, tribological, corrosion, and biocompatibility properties. Since 2018, she works as a R&D materials engineer at AIDIMME (Spain) with the activity mainly focused on the material and process development in the field of Additive Manufacturing.

Open access book, which means that you have free and unlimited access to its content.

Introduces advanced topics within Additive manufacturing (AM), such as design for AM

Special chapter on the economics of AM

Is unique in the comprehensiveness and depths in which it coverers the field of additive manufacturing

Introduction.- Introduction to Additive Manufacturing.- General process workflow in AM.- Standardisation in AM.- Design for AM.- General Process Simulations.- Applications of AM.- Development of material and processing parameters for AM.- Development of FGM and FGAM.- Conclusion.- Appendix A - List of AM Standards.