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Non-Destructive Testing and Structural Health Monitoring Methods for Additive Manufactured Polymers provides a complete overview of non-destructive testing (NDT) techniques and structural health monitoring (SHM) methods for additive manufactured (AM) polymers both with and without fiber reinforcement. Methods for additive manufacturing of polymers are outlined, including modified fused deposition and selective laser sintering, and the book also discusses the structural properties fracture behavior, and other mechanics of the polymers produced. The book then segues into specific NDT and SHM methods best used for evaluating AM polymers, such as THz spectroscopy, microcomputer tomography, ultrasonic methods, fiber optic techniques, and vibration-based methods. The structural differences between polymers produced via AM and those produced via traditional manufacturing techniques are considered as well, and the book also includes insight on methods of embedding sensors in AM structures both during and after the printing process.
List of contents
1. Additive manufacturing methods for polymers and fiber reinforcement polymers
2. Non-destructive testing and Structural Health Monitoring methods for polymers
3. Natural fibers reinforcement in Additive Manufacturing of Polymers
4. Modified fused deposition of Polymers
5. Selective laser sintering of Polymers
6. Additive Manufactured Structural metamaterials
7. Piezoelectric Sensors for additive manufactured polymers
8. Mechanical behavior of additive manufactured biopolymers and fiber reinforced polymers
9. THz spectroscopy - non-destructive testing method for additive manufactured polymers
10. Micro Computer Tomography for AM structures
11. Fiber optic techniques - structural health monitoring method for additive manufactured polymers
12. Vibration based methods - non-contact measurements using laser Doppler vibrometer for additive manufactured polymers
13. Guided wave propagation-based methods for and electromechanical impedance of additive manufactured polymers
14. Fracture mechanism of AM structures
