Carbon footprint assessment of additive manufacturing: Flat and curved layer-by-layer approaches

Abstract

This chapter describes and discusses the carbon footprint assessment of two additive manufacturing (AM) processes. The first process is the fused deposition modeling (FDM) process. The second process is the curved FDM process which is a process that has been adopted from the FDM process itself to overcome the stairstepping effects of the traditional layer-by-layer processes. The focus of this study is to explore the carbon footprint of both the technologies and its implications.