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Materials Science in Additive Manufacturing

REVIEW ARTICLE
A survey of additive manufacturing reviews

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Xiaoya Zhai , Liuchao Jin , Jingchao Jiang *
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1 School of Mathematical Sciences, University of Science and Technology of China, China
2 Department of Mechanical and Automation Engineering, The Chinese University of Hong Kong,
Shatin, Hong Kong, China

Abstract

Nowadays, additive manufacturing (AM) technologies have been widely used
in construction, medical, military, aerospace, fashion, etc. The advantages of AM
(e.g., more design freedom, no restriction on the complexity of parts, and rapid
prototyping) have attracted a growing number of researchers. Increasing number
of papers are published each year. Until now, thousands of review papers have
already been published in the field of AM. It is, therefore, perhaps timely to perform
a survey on AM review papers so as to provide an overview and guidance for readers
to choose their interested reviews on some specific topics. This survey gives detailed
analysis on these reviews, divides these reviews into different groups based on the
AM techniques and materials used, highlights some important reviews in this area,
and provides some discussions and insights.

Keywords: Additive manufacturing; 3D printing; Review

*Corresponding author:
Jingchao Jiang
(jjia547@aucklanduni.ac.nz) 1. Introduction
Citation: Zhai X, Jin L, Jiang J, Thirty years into its development, additive manufacturing (AM, also known as 3D
2022, A survey of additive printing) has become a mainstream manufacturing process. AM fabricates parts by
manufacturing reviews. Mater Sci adding materials layer-by-layer directly based on a 3D model. It is able to manufacture
Addi Manuf. 1(4): 21.
https://doi.org/10.18063/msam.v1i4.21 complex parts and allows more freedom of design optimization compared with
traditional manufacturing techniques . According to ISO/ASTM, AM can be divided
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Received: October 10, 2022
into seven groups: vat photopolymerization, material jetting, binder jetting, powder
Accepted: October 28, 2022 bed fusion, material extrusion, directed energy deposition, and sheet lamination . AM
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Published Online: November 16, 2022 has its distinctive advantages over conventional manufacturing processes, for example,
reduced product development time, lower cost, and ability to fabricate almost any
Copyright: © 2022 Author(s).
This is an Open Access article complex shape. Therefore, AM has now been widely used in construction, medical,
distributed under the terms of the military, aerospace, fashion, etc. Until now, thousands of review papers have already
Creative Commons Attribution been published in the field of AM, let alone the published research papers in this field.
License, permitting distribution,
and reproduction in any medium, Figure 1 shows the number of published review papers in AM in each year. As can
provided the original work is be seen, there are too many AM review papers published in recent years, with huge
properly cited. increasing rate. It is, therefore, perhaps timely to conduct a survey on AM review papers
Publisher’s Note: Whioce so as to provide an overview and guidance for readers to choose their interested reviews
Publishing remains neutral with on some specific topics. This survey gives detailed analysis on these reviews, divides
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published maps and institutional these reviews into different groups, and highlights some important reviews in this area
affiliations. along with discussions.

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