Title Page

ABSTRACT

Contents

Section 1. Introduction 8

Section 2. Literature Review 11

2.1. Approaches to Design Complexity for AM 12

2.2. The Impact of Design Complexity on AM Performance 13

2.3. Development of Manufacturing Strategies for AM 15

Section 3. Methodology 18

3.1. A Design Complexity Measure for AM 18

3.1.1. Development of a Design Complexity Measure for AM 18

3.1.2. Calculation of the Proposed Design Complexity Measure 20

3.1.3. Validation of the Proposed Design Complexity Measure 22

3.2. Analysis of a Design Complexity at an AM System Level 23

3.3. Analysis of a Flexible Order Processing based on Design Complexity 28

Section 4. Results 34

4.1. Calculation and Validation of a Design Complexity Measure 34

4.2. The Impact of Design Complexity on an AM System 35

4.3. Effects of a Flexible Order Processing on an AM System 37

Section 5. Conclusions and Discussions 43

References 46