3D Printed Handlebar Fails During Olympic Race
This years’ Olympics in Tokyo have seen a boom in 3D printed sporting goods employed over a range of competitions. Cyclists in particular have been making use of AM technologies bringing ...
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ORNL Prints Molybdenum Alloy
Oak Ridge National Laboratory has successfully demonstrated the printing of an alloy consisting of titanium and molybdenum, the unpronounceable 42nd element on the periodic table. So what ...
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Adidas Unveils 20 gram Lattice Sunglasses
How many new ways are there to mount eyewear to your face? Probably not many more...after several centuries of eyewear manufacturing, it’s definitely a case of making incremental ...
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Largest Plastic Aircraft Part Printed
Aerospace is gradually looking at new ways to replace metals with plastics, and existing plastics with even better, modern plastics, composites, and manufacturing methods. Traditionally, ...
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Webinar: Advancing Productivity with Figure 4 High Density Stacking
How do you get the best value from additive manufacturing, while scaling from prototyping up to larger production runs? One way to do that is to pack your parts onto the print bed and ...
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Printed Titanium Bike Handlebars Debut at Olympics
It’s Olympics time in Japan, and that means it’s time for sports equipment manufacturers to show off their wares to the sports-spectating public at large. Last week we had a little chat ...
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Thermally Conductive Plastic Molds Reduce Mold Cycle Times
Molding composites in autoclaves can be very time consuming. Finding the right balance of heat and temperature to apply while maintaining a reasonable output of parts can be a never ending ...
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Polish Race Team Gets Lightweight AM Upgrades
A kart racing team in Poland has made use of additive manufacturing to further reduce the weight of their already lean PMT-03 racing machine. The PRz Racing Team, based in Rzeszów, ...
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Satellite Benefits From Metal AM Weight Reduction
The European Space Agency’s 15-year Advanced Research in Telecommunications Systems (ARTES) Program is aimed at stimulating R&D and creating innovative products for the global space-based...
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Rotterdam Port Installs 3D Printed Bollards
Bollard is a strange word and is not widely used outside of the UK and America. So just to clarify, a bollard is a small vertical post made out of some heavy material (normally wood, metal ...
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Webinar: How to Reduce Metal 3D Printing Costs with a Reduced Support Strategy
Post-processing of metal AM parts can account for a significant portion of the total cost of making the part, with figures ranging from 26% (according to Wohler’s Report 2019) to over 70% ...
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Two New 3D Printed Bridges Unveiled to the Public
3D printed bridges are apparently like buses in the sense that you wait a lifetime for one to materialize, and then two show up at once. And that is exactly what has happened this week ...
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Super Quiet Drone Propeller Design Wins Contest
Canada-based aerospace company Delson Aeronautics has won engineering support to assist with the development of their new super quiet drone propellers, which are said to be 50% quieter than ...
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How Delft Hyperloop has Embraced 3D Printing
3D printing is great for prototypes, and there is probably nothing more prototype-y than the Hyperloop. The Hyperloop concept was dreamed up a few years ago by Elon Musk as a potential ...
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3D Printed Brace Helps Dutch Hockey Team Win European Championship
The Dutch national hockey team very nearly found themselves without a captain recently, when triple Olympic medallist Eva de Goede fractured her wrist a mere two months before the start of ...
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Aussie Subs to Get Cold Spray Repairs In-Situ
Over the last year we have seen wider adoption of AM processes for use in repairing items, particularly in the marine and aerospace sector. Sometimes companies make parts so complicated ...
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Next Gen Flying Suit Coming Soon thanks to AM
UK-based jetsuit company Gravity Industries has announced their plans to develop a new flying suit, this time with an electrical propulsion system rather than a hydrocarbon-burning ...
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Benchtop Bioprinters: More Materials in Smaller Package
Last month, 3D Systems announced the acquisition of bioprinter manufacturer Allevi. It is the latest in a series of moves by the company intended to push them to the forefront of ...
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GE gets USAF Airworthiness Cert for Metal AM Critical Part
GE has announced that their printed metal jet engine sump cover has received USAF airworthiness certification, adding another example to the very small list of printed critical parts for use ...
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Researchers Produce 3D Printed Ivory
Ivory has been historically valued due to its white finish, its relative hardness, as well as of its ease of carving. Chemically speaking, the ivory found in the tusk of an elephant is ...
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