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3D Printing for Biomedical Engineering

Additive Manufacturing Processes, Properties, and Applications

  • 1st Edition - October 29, 2025
  • Latest edition
  • Editors: Md Enamul Hoque, R Kumar, Ian Gibson
  • Language: English

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Description

3D Printing for Biomedical Engineering: Additive Manufacturing Processes, Properties, and Applications combines cutting-edge research developments with fundamental concepts related to processing, properties, and applications of advanced additive manufacturing technology in the medical field. State-of-the-art 3D bioprinting techniques such as the manufacturing of mini-organs for new drug testing as an alternative to animal testing are covered, as are reverse engineering techniques for the improvement of additive manufactured biomedical products. The book starts with chapters introducing readers to currently available additive manufacturing techniques for biomedical prototypes, along with design, development, process, and parameter considerations for these methods.

Following chapters cover the mechanical, thermal, electrical, and optical properties of 3D printed biomedical prototypes. The next section of the book discusses 3D printing in different biomedical fields, such as in heart surgery, intervertebral disc implants, dentistry, facial reconstructive surgery, oral surgery, spinal surgery, and more. The book concludes with a section outlining immediate and future challenges in the field as well as related environmental and ethical issues.

Key features

  • Outlines the design, development, process, and applications of 3D printed medical biomaterials
  • Covers the mechanical, thermal, electrical, optical, and surface properties of these materials
  • Applications discussed include heart surgery, intervertebral disc implants, oral surgery, facial reconstructive surgery, dentistry, drug development, and more

Readership

Graduate students and researchers in biomedical engineering, materials science, and engineering, Graduate medical students and medical researchers

Table of contents

Section A: Introduction, Fabrication, Properties and Testing

1. Introduction to 3D Printing Technologies and Biomedical Prototypes

2. 3D Printing Methods for Making Biomedical Components: Process and Parameters

3. Design and Development of Biomedical Devices

4. Mechanical Properties of 3D Printed Biomedical Prototypes

5. Thermal Properties of 3D Printed Biomedical Prototypes

6. Dielectric and Optical Properties of 3D Printed Biomedical Prototypes

7. Surface Properties of 3D Printed Biomedical Prototypes

8. Errors and Accuracy of 3D Printed Biomedical Prototypes

9. Improvement of 3D Printing with Reverse Engineering

Section B: Implementation of 3D Printing in Biomedical Fields

10. 3D Printing for Congenital Heart Surgery

11. 3D Printing for Cranioplasty Implants

12. 3D Printing for Customized Intervertebral Disc Implants

13. 3D Printing for Dentistry

14. 3D Printing for Facial Reconstructive Surgery

15. 3D Printing for Oral and Maxillofacial Surgery

16. 3D Printing for Orthopaedic Surgery

17. 3D Printing for Prosthetic Sockets

18. 3D Printing for Repairing Fracture Bone Defects

19. 3D Printing for Spinal Surgery

20. 3D Printing for Surgical Aid Tools

21. 3D Printing for Tissue Engineering

22. 3D Printing for Therapeutic Strategy

Section C: Challenges, Risks and Scopes

23. Opportunities, Challenges and Potentials of 3DPrinting

24. Environmental Issues and Welfares of 3D Printing

25. Ethical and Legal Issues with 3D Printing

Product details

  • Edition: 1
  • Latest edition
  • Published: October 29, 2025
  • Language: English

About the editors

MH

Md Enamul Hoque

Prof. Dr. Md Enamul Hoque is a Professor in the Department of Mechanical Engineering, Faculty of Engineering, at the University of Tabuk, Tabuk, Saudi Arabia. Prior to joining the University of Tabuk, he held several senior academic and leadership positions at internationally reputed institutions. These include Senior Professor of Biomedical Engineering at the Military Institute of Science and Technology (MIST), Bangladesh; Head of the Department of Biomedical Engineering at King Faisal University (KFU), Saudi Arabia; and Founding Head of the Bioengineering Division at the University of Nottingham Malaysia Campus (UNMC). Professor Hoque obtained his PhD in 2007 from the National University of Singapore (NUS), Singapore. He also earned a Postgraduate Certificate in Higher Education (PGCHE) from the University of Nottingham, United Kingdom, in 2015. He is a Chartered Engineer (CEng) registered with the Engineering Council, UK; a Fellow of the Institution of Mechanical Engineers (FIMechE), UK; a Fellow of the Higher Education Academy (FHEA), UK; and a Member of the World Academy of Science, Engineering and Technology. He has been ranked among the top 2% of scientists worldwide, based on standardized citation metrics.

Affiliations and expertise
Department of Mechanical Engineering, Faculty of Engineering, at the University of Tabuk, Tabuk, Saudi Arabia.

RK

R Kumar

Dr. R. Kumar is an Associate Professor in the Department of Mechanical Engineering at Eritrea Institute of Technology. His research interests include manufacturing, friction drilling, welding, and machining of aluminum, polymer composites and metal matrix composites.
Affiliations and expertise
Associate Professor, Department of Mechanical Engineering, Eritrea Institute of Technology.

IG

Ian Gibson

Ian Gibson is a professor in Industrial Design Engineering and Scientific Director of the University's Fraunhofer Project Centre in complex systems engineering at the University of Twente. His first teaching position was at Nottingham University in 1992, where he was introduced to Rapid Prototyping, which is now more commonly known as 3D Printing (3DP) or Additive Manufacturing (AM). Ian has spent the last 25+ years working with this extremely enabling technology to solve problems in healthcare, automotive, aerospace, and other industrial sectors by engaging in applied research. In 2017, Ian was awarded the Freeform and Additive Manufacturing Excellence (FAME) award in the US for his contribution to the academic AM community, something that only 9 other people have so far received.
Affiliations and expertise
Professor of Design Engineering, University of Twente, The Netherlands

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