Frontiers of Engineering: Reports on Leading-Edge Engineering from the 2011 Symposium
National Academy of Engineering, National Research Council
NAS Press | 2012 | ISBN: 0309221439 9780309221436 | 175 pages | PDF | 10 MB
This issue includes repots given at the NAE Symposium in September 2011. This book covers four general topics from the 2011 symposium: additive manufacturing, semantic processing, engineering sustainable buildings, and neuro-prosthetics. The papers provide an overview of the challenges and opportunities of these fields of inquiry, and communicate the excitement of discovery.
The additive manufacturing session described how technologies such as stereolithography, fused deposition modeling, 3D printing, selective laser melting, laser-engineered net shape processes, ultrasonic consolidation, and selective laser sintering enable layer-wise fabrication of complex parts directly from CAD files without part-specific tooling.