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but these improvements are material properties alone. They are not necessarily
associated with design and operational attributes directly.
But material research in New Manufacturing is more fl flexible. You can make
your material stronger or weaker or make it more fl flexible as you require in your
design or in operation. In short, materials in the next generation will be more
adaptive to the design and operational needs. Thus, it is certainly a challenge, but
not a dream to develop materials which degrade, keeping the feeling of best ! t as
long as a user likes.
References
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4. http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Satis ! cing
5. Fukuda S (2010) Emotional engineering. Springer, London
6. Lipson H, Kurman H (2013) Fabricated: the new world of 3D printing. Wiley, New York