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The research status and development trend of additive manufacturing technology

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The paper first presents a brief review of development courses of additive manufacturing technology and summarizes the development status and the application fields of additive manufacturing technology, then, according to the manufacturing methods, it focuses on the principles and characteristics of several main additive manufacturing technologies. This paper also analyzes the existing problems and challenges of additive manufacturing technology and its future development trend. This paper aims to provide references for the development direction of additive manufacturing technology in developing countries.

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    Lian Chen

  2. School of Mechatronic Engineering, Southwest Petroleum University, 8# Xin Du Rd, Xindu District, Chengdu, 610500, China

    Lian Chen, Yingxin Yang, Shiwei Niu & Haitao Ren

  3. Luzhou Vocational and Technical College, Luzhou, 646005, China

    Yong He

  4. State Key Lab of Oil and Gas Reservoir Geology and Exploitation, Chengdu, 610031, China

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Chen, L., He, Y., Yang, Y. et al. The research status and development trend of additive manufacturing technology. Int J Adv Manuf Technol 89, 3651–3660 (2017). https://doi.org/10.1007/s00170-016-9335-4

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