The Development of Additive Manufacturing

Abstract

With the improvement of Additive Manufacturing technology, it has not been limited to traditional single-material homogeneous processing technology. Parts with multi-materials, functionally graded materials (FGM), colorful and true color surface texture mapping, etc. can be manufactured directly. 3D printing will be more popular in the future. In this paper, research and developments of Additive Manufacturing are summarized and some further potential developments are proposed.