Meet the editors

Dr. Evren Yasa graduated with her degree in Mechanical Engineering from the Istanbul Technical University and completed her master degree at the University of British Columbia on volumetric error modeling and compensation. She received her Ph.D. degree with her thesis on "Combined Process of Selective Laser Melting and Selective Laser Erosion/Laser Re-melting" at the Catholic University of Leuven, and won the "Emerald Out-

standing Doctoral Study-Highly commended" award with her doctoral dissertation. After her Ph.D. study, she worked as a senior engineer at TEI, a GE-joint venture company specializing in manufacturing aero-engine parts, where she led Additive Manufacturing projects. Later, she joined Eskisehir Osmangazi University as an assistant professor. Moreover, she has been working as an independent expert in laser-based manufacturing on behalf of European Commission in FP7 and Horizon2020 projects.

Dr. Mohsen Mhadhbi obtained his Ph.D. degree from the Faculty of Sciences of Sfax, Tunisia. He is currently Assistant Professor of Chemistry in the National Institute of Research and Physical-chemical Analysis, Tunisia. His research interests include inorganic chemistry, material engineering, intermetallics, and powder technology. He has published works in national and international impacted journals and books. He is a teacher in

inorganic chemistry. He has supervised several researchers in materials science. He is a member of various scientific journals and associations and has been serving as an editorial board member of repute.

Dr. Eleonora Santecchia (PhD) is Assistant Professor in Metallurgy at the Marche Polytechnic University (UNIVPM) located in Ancona, Italy. Her current research activities are mainly focused on metal additive manufacturing and, in particular, on the laser powder bed fusion (LPBF) and direct energy deposition (DED) techniques. She received her Master Degree (cum laude) in Thermomechanical Engineering at the Marche Polytechnic

University (Ancona, Italy) in 2010, and obtained her Ph.D. in Materials, Waters and Soils Engineering on March 2014 (Marche Polytechnic University, Ancona, Italy). She accomplished a two years postdoctorate fellowship at Qatar University in Doha (Qatar) working on the Project NPRP 5-423-2-167 "Advanced ultra-hard nanostructured coatings for innovative applications in mechanical and chemical industries". From 2016 to 2019 she worked as an INSTM Postdoctoral Researcher at the Marche Polytechnic University (Ancona), within the European Project DREAM H2020 "Driving up Reliability and Efficiency of Additive Manufacturing". She is experienced in microstructural characterization by scanning electron microscopy, energy dispersive spectroscopy, and X-ray diffraction techniques. Furthermore, Dr. Santecchia is an enthusiastic additive manufacturing researcher, with a particular passion for laser-based 3D printing techniques.

Contents

**Section 1**

Aerospace Industry

*by Ernesto Limiti and Patrick E. Longhi*

Multi-Objective Optimization

*by Dina Fouad and Mahmoud Farag*

Prologue: The New Era of Sintering

*by Kıvılcım Ersoy and Berk Barış Çelik*

or Spark Plasma Sintering (SPS) *by Wallace R. Matizamhuka*

*by Eleonora Santecchia and Mohsen Mhadhbi*

Utilization of Additive Manufacturing to Produce Tools

A Design Brief Perspective

*by Kristel Dewulf*

**Section 2**

**Preface XI**

Design Perspective **1**

**Chapter 1 3**

**Chapter 2 21**

**Chapter 3 39**

**Chapter 4 59**

Additive Manufacturing **79**

**Chapter 5 81**

**Chapter 6 89**

**Chapter 7 105**

Fabrication of Fine-Grained Functional Ceramics by Two-Step Sintering

Integrating Sustainability in the Strategic Stage of an Innovation Process:

Design for Manufacturing of Electro-Mechanical Assemblies in the

Industrial Applications of Intelligent Adaptive Sampling Methods for

*by Jesper Kristensen, Waad Subber, Yiming Zhang, Sayan Ghosh, Natarajan Chennimalai Kumar, Genghis Khan and Liping Wang*

Design for Sustainability with Biodegradable Composites
