Additive Manufacturing with Interdisciplinary Applications

Additive manufacturing (AM) becomes the successful commercial technology because of the interdisciplinary applications of this technology in different sectors. This review paper categorises the interdisciplinary applications of AM into three different sectors as prototyping, rapid tooling and direct part production. Each application sectors provide reviews on how normally AM processes have been adopted, albeit how and why they are utilised has also been presented. In this paper, sufficiently novel and important observations have been presented which include AM fabricated metamaterial, microelectrode arrays, micro-channel, mesoscale burner, marine parts, monolith structures, biofuel microstructured and assembly with photovoltaic. In this way, the present approach provides significant insights into different additive manufacturing application sectors. In addition, to provide an overall view, interdisciplinary applications listed in the current study are sufficiently adequate for a review in terms of number of research works considered from the literature and various resources available in the public domain. The current research also shows that the AM can provide future scope in different fields such as cold spray, direct fabrication of electromechanical devices on the macroscale, radio-frequency structures and similar applications.