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Quality Control for Additive Manufacturing Parts Using Non-Destructive Testing
Additive Manufacturing (AM) is growing in importance as a fabrication process for the space industry, enabling weight and cost savings through optimized designs for...
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Arconic and Airbus Cooperate on 3D Printing Research
Arconic and Airbus recently announced a multi-year cooperative research agreement to advance metal 3D printing for aircraft manufacturing. Together, the companies will develop customized...
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GE Additive Unveils Project ATLAS Program’s First 3D Printer
As additive technology continues to transform the manufacturing world with lighter and stronger parts, there has been an increasing demand from many industries for additive...
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3D Systems Unveils Next-Gen High-Production Additive Metal Solution
3D Systems' next-generation additive metal production platform is designed to allow manufacturers to scale their additive manufacturing platform for integration into the...
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Scaled Composites Completes First Flight of Model 401
This past week, Scaled Composites announced the first flight of its experimental aircraft design, Model 401. Scaled—a subsidiary of Northrop Grumman—has built two Model 401 aircraft...
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Shape Memory Alloys at the Core of Future Aircraft Systems
The ability to have aircraft wings fold isn’t new, and, as Boeing is proving on the 777X, the desire to do so is not going away. As with the 777X and U.S Navy aircraft, the motive...
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Army 3-D Prints a Building
The Construction Engineering Research Laboratory in Champaign, Illinois, has successfully three-dimensionally printed a 512 square-foot concrete structure. The structure, called a barracks hut or B-Hut, was...
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Researchers Print the Unprintable: Kapton
Kapton, a material used in electronics and aerospace applications, has only been available in sheet form. Researchers from Virginia Tech have found a way to 3D-print a polymer with Kapton's structural...
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Researchers Develop New Carbide Coating for Hypersonic Flight
Researchers from the University of Manchester have designed and fabricated a carbide coating that can withstand the speed and temperature associated with hypersonic travel. To...
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A Secure Attachment to 3D Printing
Additive manufacturing (AM), or 3D printing, is the new best friend in multiple industries, replacing conventional fabrication processes in critical areas ranging from aerospace components to medical...
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Secure 3D Printing: 'Three-Layer' System Protects Parts from Hackers
A 3D printer is essentially a small embedded computer — and can be exploited like one. Researchers from Georgia Institute of Technology and Rutgers University have developed...
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Protecting Additive Manufacturing’s Digital Thread
According to National Transportation Safety Board (NTSB) data, counterfeit aircraft components have contributed to almost two dozen crashes since 2010. A review of the FAA records from...
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Reaching Forward and Back: 3D Printing Innovates While Breathing Life into Traditional Aero Manufacturing
The first China-built commercial airliner—the Comac C919—took its maiden flight on May 5, 2017 at Shanghai Pudong International...
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On-Line UPS Family Falcon Electric, Inc., (Irwindale, CA) announced the addition of tower models to its on-line rackmount SC UPS family. The new 700VA to 3kVA tower-configured SC UPS protects IT/IoT equipment,...
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Verifying Structural Integrity of 3D Metal-Printed Parts
Interest in 3D printing is remaking the manufacturing landscape. Consulting firm IDC says global spending on 3D printers, both desktop and industrial, hit about $11 billion in 2015 and...
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Incremental Improvements Can Lead to Huge Benefits for Aircraft Programs
Today, virtually all commercial aircraft possess sophisticated systems that contribute to a comfortable—not to mention safe and healthy—environment for passengers....
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NASA to Establish New Space Technology Research Institutes
NASA has selected proposals for the creation of two multi-disciplinary, university-led research institutes that will focus on the development of technologies critical to extending...
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Norsk Gives Boeing Manufacturing Edge with First 3D-Printed Titanium Components
Norsk Titanium AS—which has been researching and developing its RPD (rapid plasma deposition) process for over 10 years—says it can produce titanium...
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The 3D Printing Landscape: Then and Now
Frequently used as a design validation and prototyping tool in its early days, the 3D printer now supports a much wider range of applications, from shape-conforming electronics to the creation of printed...
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Technique Enables 3D Printing of Aerospace-Grade Carbon Fiber Composites
Researchers from Lawrence Livermore National Laboratory have become the first to 3D print aerospace-grade carbon fiber composites, representing a significant advance in...
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Probing FAST Processing for High-Tech Ceramic Components
Researchers from Purdue University are studying the fundamental mechanisms behind a technique known as field-assisted sintering technology (FAST), where applying an electric field...
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3D Printers Create Tomorrow’s Rocket Engines
Startup company Tri-D Dynamics LLC, a startup with ties to Purdue University, plans to use 3D printers as well as other additive manufacturing processes to make future rocket engines that show...
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Churning Toward Stronger, More Uniform Aluminum Casts
Macrosegregation is the uneven distribution of alloying elements within a solidified aluminum part, creating, for example, copper-poor regions. This is most likely to occur in the center...
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Researchers 3D-Print Operational Drone with Embedded Electronics
Researchers at Nanyang Technological University, Singapore, 3D-printed a ready-to-fly drone with embedded electronics using aerospace-grade material. The electronics were...
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Army Explores 3-D Printing's Future Applications
A soldier heads back to camp, grabs a power bar and unloads his gear. The power bar, which was "printed" minutes earlier, contains all the nutrients his body currently needs, according to...
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Additive Manufacturing: How 3D Printing Will Transform the A&D Support Chain
3D printing, or additive manufacturing (AM), is quickly becoming a 'must have' for aerospace and defense (A&D) manufacturers rather than just a luxury R&D...
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Dassault Aviation, Reliance Infrastructure Form Strategic Partnership
France's Dassault Aviation and India's Reliance Group announced in late September 2016 the creation of a joint venture (JV) in India called Dassault Reliance Aerospace.
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Additive Manufacturing Today, Growing Airplanes, Literally, Tomorrow?
If 3D virtual reality and additive manufacturing (AM) are indicative of one direction that disruptive developments are taking the aerospace engineering sector, then...
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Additive Manufacturing, Virtual Reality Add to Aerospace Design Repertoire
Images of exciting and futuristic-looking aircraft might capture the imagination of the next generation of would-be aerospace engineers, but the most spectacular...
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