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Additive Manufacturing and Materials a Prime Focus for GKN Aerospace
GKN Aerospace recently announced two collaborative research projects related to the advancement of additive manufacturing (AM) within the aerospace industry. One is a...
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MTU Develops New Turbine Blade Material in Record Time
MTU Aero Engines announced in March that its internal experts and industry partners have jointly developed a new class of intermetallic, high-temperature materials for highly stressed...
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Altair Optimizes 3D-Printed Structures for Complex, Lightweight Designs
Altair expects to better support the use of additive manufacturing (AM), or 3D printing, by releasing new OptiStruct solver capabilities for topology optimization. The...
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EOS and MTU Advance Quality Measures for Metal-Based Additive Manufacturing
EOS and MTU Aero Engines have partnered to develop quality-assurance measures for metal engine components using additive manufacturing (AM), signing a framework...
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Fanjet Evolution — the Next Steps
The global aerospace sector has always represented the cutting edge of practical technology advancement. When the first military jet engines emerged in the post-war 1940s it was clear that commercial...
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Aerojet Rocketdyne Gets a Boost from Additive Manufactured Components
Aerojet Rocketdyne recently completed a series of hot-fire tests of additive manufactured components for its AR1 booster engine at its Sacramento test facility. AR1 is...
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EOS and MTU Advance Quality Measures for Metal-Based Additive Manufacturing
EOS and MTU Aero Engines have partnered to develop quality-assurance measures for metal engine components using additive manufacturing (AM), signing a framework...
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'Reman' Engine Market Steady, but Complexity Challenges Production Efficiency
High-tech design causes time to remanufacture engines to nearly triple and adds to cost, while used engines remain a competitive factor. However, Purdue University data shows remanufacturing is far more energy efficient than installing a new powerplant. Read more at...
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Magnetic Field Lines Made Visible in 3-D and Real Time
Scientists at the Fraunhofer Institute have developed a high-resolution magnetic line camera to measure magnetic fields in real time, which is particularly useful for quality assurance...
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Dome-Loaded Pressure Regulator
WITT-Gasetechnik’s dome-loaded pressure regulator is impervious to system pressure and withdrawal fluctuations. A design modification to the integrated control pressure regulator ensures an almost complete compensation of supply pressure and outlet fluctuations. Thus, users can rely on constant conditions in the gas...
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Selective Laser Sintering System
3D Systems has developed its fastest fab-grade selective laser sintering (SLS) system yet, the ProX 500 Plus. Building upon last year’s ProX 500 release, the ProX 500 Plus continues the company’s efforts to...
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1 GHz, 10 GS/s Oscilloscope
Teledyne LeCroy (Chestnut Ridge, NY) has introduced the WaveSurfer 10 oscilloscope. Offering 1 GHz and 10 GS/s, the WaveSurfer 10 combines the MAUI advanced user interface with powerful waveform processing, in...
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Digitally Controlled PIN Diode Attenuator
Model A3P-68N-3 from G.T. Microwave (Randolph, NJ) is a digitally controlled PIN diode attenuator that operates from 6.0-18.0 GHz. It is capable of 32 dB range in 0.125 monotonic dB steps with a supply...
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Mine-Sweeping Device
Minelab Electronics Torrensville, Australia 61-8-8238-0888 www.minelab.com NIITEK Dulles, VA 703-661-0283 www.niitek.com Minelab Electronics, an Australian company known for its metal detectors, has partnered with NIITEK,...
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Rugged COTS Enclosure
The air-cooled 3U nine-slot D2D chassis from Curtiss-Wright comes in a 3/4 ATR tall long format. The Hybricon D2D-34TLA enclosure enables a system integrator to use the same COTS enclosure throughout the complete program...
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Walk-In Oven
The No. 1031 is a 650°F electrically heated walk-in oven from Grieve, currently used at a customer location for curing composite components. Workspace dimensions of the oven are 96-in width x 96-in depth x 84-in height. The oven...
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Jet Aviation Basel Gains DGCA Approval from India for Dassault Aircraft
Jet Aviation Basel recently received CAR-145 approval from the Director General Civil Aviation (DGCA) in India to provide full maintenance services to Indian-registered...
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VISTARA Signs Contract with Airbus to Support A320 Fleet
VISTARA, a new carrier based in New Delhi, has signed long-term Flight Hour Services Tailored Support Package (FHS-TSP) contracts with Airbus with the entry into service of its 20...
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NASA Selects Commercial Space Partners for Collaborative Partnerships
NASA has formed unfunded partnerships with four U.S. companies to develop new space capabilities available to the government and other customers. The Collaborations for...
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Study Shows Multiple Benefits of CO2 Cooling in Composites Drilling
The use of composite materials in aerospace and automotive applications has grown at a fast rate (and will continue to do so) due to the high strength and low weight of the...
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Racecar with Composite-Intensive Suspension Gets Track Tested in 2015
A racecar fitted with a prototype rear suspension will compete in the Sports Car Club of America's 2015 season as a proof-of-concept demonstrator for using thermoplastic...
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Laser Measurement
Ophir Photonics’ 1000WP-BB-34 high-power water cooled thermal sensor is designed with the requirement that all materials coming in contact with the cooling water are either copper or nonmetallic. This eliminates the...
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Quadrant Photodiode
The SXUVPS4 multi-element photo detector from Opto Diode has a 5 mm² active area in a quadrant configuration. Designed to resist radiation damage from high-intensity UV lasers, the photodiodes are suited for laser alignment applications. Offering good stability, the devices can withstand four days of exposure to 10 eV 1016...
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Micro Machining Center
The YASDA YMC 430 Ver. II micro machining center from Methods Machine Tools, Inc. is suitable for the ultra-precise manufacturing and high surface finishes required on small, complex features in components and dies or...
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Selective Laser Sintering System
3D Systems has developed its fastest fab-grade selective laser sintering (SLS) system yet, the ProX 500 Plus. Building upon last year’s ProX 500 release, the ProX 500 Plus continues the company’s efforts to redefine production 3-D printing, adding upgraded speeds, higher print resolution, and an expanded range...
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Boeing, Toray Industries Reach Agreement on Composites for 777X Wings
Composite supplier Toray Industries signed an agreement to expand its current contract for the Boeing 787 Dreamliner to include the 777X wings. The addition of the 777X...
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Aerojet Rocketdyne Pursues Copper Alloy Additive Manufacturing for Thrust Chamber Assembly
NASA and Aerojet Rocketdyne, a Sacramento, CA-based GenCorp company, announced Oct. 17 that they successfully completed a series of hot-fire tests on...
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Northrop Grumman Opens Innovation Lab
Northrop Grumman Corp. recently celebrated the grand opening of its Fabrication Laboratory (FabLab) at the company's Space Park facility in Redondo Beach, CA. The 5500-ft² laboratory was inspired and...
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Boeing Begins Construction of 777X Composite Wing Center
Boeing on Oct. 21 celebrated the groundbreaking of its new 777X Composite Wing Center at the Everett, WA, campus. Permitting for the new 1 million-ft² facility was completed seven...
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