Energy consumption of common desktop additive manufacturing technologies

Additive manufacturing (AM), also referred as 3D printing, is a small but fast-growing sub-sector of the manufacturing industry. Concerns over increasing worldwide energy consumption provides an impetus to quantify the energy use of the most common forms of AM technologies. To date, research efforts...

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Main Authors: Nicholas Hopkins, Liben Jiang, Hadley Brooks
Format: Article
Language:English
Published: Elsevier 2021-06-01
Series:Cleaner Engineering and Technology
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Online Access:http://www.sciencedirect.com/science/article/pii/S2666790821000288