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2015 | OriginalPaper | Chapter

7. Material Jetting

Authors : Ian Gibson, David Rosen, Brent Stucker

Published in: Additive Manufacturing Technologies

Publisher: Springer New York

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Abstract

Printing technology has been extensively investigated, with the majority of that investigation historically based upon applications to the two-dimensional printing industry. Recently, however, it has spread to numerous new application areas, including electronics packaging, optics, and additive manufacturing. Some of these applications, in fact, have literally taken the technology into a new dimension. The employment of printing technologies in the creation of three-dimensional products has quickly become an extremely promising manufacturing practice, both widely studied and increasingly widely used.
This chapter will summarize the printing achievements made in the additive manufacturing industry and in academia. The development of printing as a process to fabricate 3D parts is summarized, followed by a survey of commercial polymer printing machines. The focus of this chapter is on material jetting (MJ) in which all of the part material is dispensed from a print head. This is in contrast to binder jetting, where binder or other additive is printed onto a powder bed which forms the bulk of the part. Binder jetting is the subject of Chap. 8. Some of the technical challenges of printing are introduced; material development for printing polymers, metals, and ceramics is investigated in some detail. Models of the material jetting process are introduced that relate pressure required to fluid properties. Additionally, a printing indicator expression is derived and used to analyze printing conditions.

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Metadata
Title
Material Jetting
Authors
Ian Gibson
David Rosen
Brent Stucker
Copyright Year
2015
Publisher
Springer New York
Book
Additive Manufacturing Technologies

Print ISBN: 978-1-4939-2112-6

Electronic ISBN: 978-1-4939-2113-3

Copyright Year: 2015

DOI
https://doi.org/10.1007/978-1-4939-2113-3_7

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