Everyone wants to 3D print with metals, but it is a difficult task. You need high temperatures and metals with high thermal conductivity make the problem even worse. Researchers at Caltech have a way ...
Freeform Future Corp., a startup using custom 3D printers to make metal parts, has raised $67 million in funding. The company stated in its announcement of the deal today that Nvidia Corp.’s NVentures ...
Welding is typically used to join two parts together, whether those parts be metal or plastic. There are various styles of welding, but we won’t go into those here. Casting is the act of pouring a ...
One broken screw can derail an entire manufacturing process. Run out of spares and you face a crisis if your supplier overseas needs six weeks to deliver new screws. However, if you have a metal 3D ...
Artificial joints that not only replace damaged bones but also release medicine directly into the body could soon become ...
Researchers have come up with a 3D printing method using liquid metal that's claimed to produce structures at least 10 times faster than existing metal additive manufacturing processes, though it does ...
Velo3D has opened a nearly 289,000-square-foot metal 3D printing campus in Livermore, California, giving ...
As a US Marine Corps combat engineer serving in Iraq, Jim Monroe used MacGyver-like hacks to repair mine rollers. Meant to detonate and clear mines, these heavy studded wheels are mounted on the ...
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At Carnegie Mellon University’s Next Manufacturing Center, researchers have developed an off-axial imaging system to capture the fleeting dynamics of molten pools in laser powder bed fusion (L-PBF) ...
Beehive Industries is scaling 3D-printed jet engine production to 8,000 units a year with Air Force funding, 30 new printers, ...
3D printing has become one of the most efficient and affordable ways of creating simple, specific items without having to purchase them. But while 3D printing can save you money on some things, it's ...
RTX’s Pratt & Whitney has joined forces with GKN Aerospace to develop a large ...