Instrumentation and Monitoring of Additive Manufacturing Processes for the Biomedical Applications

This chapter focuses on the instrumentation and monitoring of additive manufacturing (AM) processes for biomedical applications. First, the defects generated during AM processes and their links with process parameters are studied, with suggestions to minimize or eliminate these defects. After that, the techniques of instrumentation and monitoring of the different physical quantities (temperature, the geometry of the weld pool, etc.) generated during manufacture are certainly evident. Finally, we will look at multi-sensor solutions allowing more efficient process control.