Part 1. From Spectacular Applications to the Economic Market of Additive Manufacturing -- Chapter 1. Some Significant Examples -- Maritime, military, aerial and spatial applications -- Conception: art and new domestic applicative niches -- Art and additive manufacturing -- Archaeology, museum restoration, reproduction -- Construction sector -- Mechanical parts -- Land transport -- The question of spare parts -- Toys for the young and the "not-so-young" -- "Traditional" medical applications -- From Additive Manufacturing to 3D/4D Printing -- Scientific applications -- Optics -- Chemical and process engineering -- Complex structures -- Toward the infinitely small -- Nanometric origami -- Chapter 2. Integration of Additive Manufacturing Technologies into Society -- Markets and application domains of 3D printing -- Markets -- Principal application niches -- Growth dynamics -- Studies on the dynamic of growth -- Convergence -- "Attractiveness" of additive manufacturing technologies -- Possible positioning of the industry -- Toward a certain stabilization: The dynamics of innovation -- Part 2. 3D Processes -- Chapter 3. Processes, Machines and Materials -- Stereolithography -- History of 2D1/2 processes -- Other techniques developed since 1984 -- Light-matter interaction and space-resolved polymerization --Consequences -- Families of materials used -- Layer implementation -- Coupling of polymerized surface generation and volumetric reduction -- Process of wire fusion -- FDM or FFF materials -- Adhesion -- Synthesis -- Sheet or powder gluing process -- Bi-material process (SDL) -- Variant using powders: 3DP Process -- Process using a cross-linkable polymer (SIR, for "Soluble/Insoluble Reaction") -- Synthesis -- fusion/sintering -- Materials -- Energy sources --. Physicochemical aspects and constraints linked to the process -- Simultaneous contribution of matter and energy -- MPA process -- Synthesis.