Traditionally, direct metal laser sintering (DMLS) requires support structures to avoid deformations due to thermal stresses and conduct the heat away from the melt pool. These supports are part of the design and manufactured...
Advanced manufacturer Arris Composites (Berkeley, Calif., U.S.) reveals a research project with Airbus (Toulouse, France) which focuses on the production of cabin brackets. This project aims to demonstrate significant reductions in aviation emissions by...
October 14, 2021, Desktop Metal (NYSE: DM), announced it has qualified the use of nickel alloy IN625 (IN625) for the Production SystemTM platform, which leverages patent pending Single Pass JettingTM (SPJ) technology designed to...
Sept. 9, 2021, Morf3D, Inc., a subsidiary of Nikon Corporation, a trusted leader in metal additive manufacturing (AM) specializing in AM optimization and engineering for the aerospace, defense, and space industries, announced that EOS...
Anisoprint, a Luxembourg-based composite 3D printing startup, and Additive Flow, a British AM software developer, now offer a full-scale CAE tool compatible with Aura, Anisoprint’s slicing software for composite 3D printing. The software will...
Launcher purchased a Velo3D metal additive manufacturing solution to print Inconel parts in April 2021 and has recently added a second one that prints Titanium. Launcher’s orbiter propellant tank printed out of Inconel using...
Among the wealth of foundries that exist worldwide, there is none like Aristo Cast Inc., an investment casting foundry based in Almont, Michigan, USA. Multi-award winning and one of seven foundries in the world...
According to the American Society of Metals and its ASM Metals Reference Book, refractory metals are naturally occurring metallic elements with a melting point above 2,200 degrees C. Not only are these metals—molybdenum, niobium,...
The task to 3D-print a 10-foot tall rocket nozzle liner demonstrator for a large-scale, liquid rocket engine presented just one problem for DM3D Technologies — they didn’t have a machine large enough to produce...
Additive manufacturing in the rocket propulsion industry is a huge opportunity. The process can achieve optimal design while keeping costs low. Private enterprises have become heavily involved in the space industry and when it...
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