3D printing metal technologies like powder bed fusion, metal binder jetting, and directed energy deposition have grown at an explosive pace. Read everything about it here on 3DPrinting.com.
The European particle smashing agency, CERN has turned to 3D printing to manufacture components for a cooling system in the Large Hadron Collider. The 27km circumference LHC is buried deep ...
Read More »One of the hurdles that’s still being overcome in metal 3D printing is the ability to print with superalloys. The most common forms of metal printing that involve selectively melting metal ...
Read More »In this article we'll look at the line of DMP printers and their printable alloys. From stand alone 3D printers to modular production systems.
Read More »Directed Energy Deposition (also known as Blown Powder Directed Energy Deposition) is not only good for manufacturing new parts from scratch, but it is also great for Additive ...
Read More »Huge scale metal AM is getting a lot of coverage recently. Recently we published an article showing how NASA is using DED for manufacturing big rocket engines using copper alloys. They ...
Read More »Metal 3D printing services are generally fairly friendly and knowledgeable and are happy to give you quotes for your printed parts all day long. But it’s usually not an automated process ...
Read More »Metal powders are costly, and depending on the geometry of the part, can be even more costly due to unused powders which often go unrecycled. Big hollow parts leave a lot of unused ...
Read More »Additive Manufacturing and copper have both been finding a friend in the space industry recently, particularly in the domain of rocket engines. We have seen multiple examples this year of 3D ...
Read More »We have taken a look at how the private sector are using additive manufacturing to build rocket engines in this previous article. In that example, the engineers use powder bed fusion for ...
Read More »Wind turbines can be a little bit lossy in terms of their aerodynamic performance. Luckily mother nature has been working on this problem for a few billion years, and Toronto-based design ...
Read More »Metal and plastic hybrid 3D printing has long been the aim of those wishing to print PCBs and rudimentary electronic components, such as strain gauges, resistors, basic transistors and maybe ...
Read More »Metal Injection Molding (MIM) has been around for some time, but has been plagued with issues including void formation and part fatigue problems. As will most things manufacturing, it has ...
Read More »Surface finish for metal additive manufacturing really is the key to its usefulness. Nobody wants a rough, wavy part, especially if it is to mate with another component or seal some kind of ...
Read More »Metal 3D printing is maturing into a market that’s full of options. There are now metal AM solutions across a range of price points, and hybrid machines that can add & subtract metal to ...
Read More »While some in the manufacturing world are slow to adopt metal 3D printing, Roger Smith is not one of them. As the CEO of Sierra Turbines, he plans to completely revamp the microturbine ...
Read More »Defence giant Honeywell, has recently announced that their 3D printed bearing housing has been approved for use on the Dassault Falcon 20G maritime patrol aircraft. At last, a 3D printed ...
Read More »We’ve seen several cycling innovations related to 3D printing over the last couple of years, like printing frames and helmets for increased rigidity and less weight. Now a bike Guinness ...
Read More »Porosity and other defects are a problem where it comes to parts printed with metal powder bed fusion processes. One team of researchers from the U.S. Department of Energy’s Argonne ...
Read More »In this post we will be looking at the Cold Metal Fusion (CMF) AM method, and we will be answering that exact question. What is it? Cold Metal Fusion is a powder-based indirect metal ...
Read More »When the engineers at the German Aerospace Center (Deutsches Zentrum für Luft- und Raumfahrt, or DLR) Institute of Structures and Design were tasked with designing the liquid rocket engine ...
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