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Glossary


A
ABS
Acoustics
Additive Manufacturing
Alumide
APDRC
APU

B
Batteries
Big Data
Biomimicry
Bionics
Blockchain
Body in White
Build Envelope

C
CAD
CAM
CFD
Cloud Computing
Cluster Computing
Computer-Aided Engineering (CAE)
Coordinate Measuring Machine (CMM)
CPU
Curing

D
Degrees of Freedom
Digital Thread
DWG

E
EDA
Edge Computing

F
FEA
Finite Element Method (FEM)
FIRST
Fluid Dynamics
Fluid Mechanics

G
G-Code
GPU
Graphene

H
Hooke’s Law

I
Instrumentation
IoT

J
JT

L
Layer Resolution
Lightweighting

M
Machine Learning
Maxwell’s Equations
Memristor
Meshing
Metal 3D Printing
Moore’s Law
Multibody System
Multidisciplinary Design Optimization
Multiphysics
Multithreading

N
NASTRAN
Navier-Stokes

O
OBJ
Ohm’s Law

P
PAEK
Parametric Modeling
PBT
PEEK
PEI
PETG
Photopolymers
PLM
PMMA
Polyamide
Polycarbonate
Polylactic Acid
Polypropylene
Polystyrene
Powder Bed Fusion
PPS
Print Bed
PVA

Q
Quantum Computing

R
Refractory Metals
Retraction
Reverse Engineering

S
Skirt
Slice
SOC
STEP
Stereolithography
STL
Strain
Stress
Subtractive Manufacturing
System Modeling

T
Thermoplastic
Topology Optimization
Torque
TPE
T-spline

V
von Mises Stress

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