History has defined man’s most commonly used materials as
wood, ceramic, metal, plastic, and glass (Jester, 1995). Among
these materials, wood, ceramic, metal, and plastic, have already
been employed in additive manufacturing (AM) technologies
(Gebhardt,2003).Laminatedobjectmanufacturing(LOM)can
use paper (Mueller and Kochan, 1999), Selective laser sintering
(SLS) and three-dimensional printing (3DP) can use metal
(Bourell et al., 1992) and ceramic (Sachs et al., 1990, 1993;