AM Research
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Copper has been hot in 3D printing recently and titanium has been hot from the start of the metal AM industry. Now a study on a new titanium copper alloy, published in Nature Journal by RMIT researchers, combines the two materials in order to reduce the risk of cracking and deformation.…
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A team of researchers from Purdue University, Cornell University and Case Western Reserve University is drawing inspiration from bones to make stronger, more resilient 3D printed structures for buildings, aircraft and more. The researchers have recreated a specific beam structure found within natural bone that provides strength and lifelong wear…
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ETH researchers produced complex and highly porous glass objects using a special resin that can be cured with UV light in a novel glass photopolymerization process. Although it is very common (or maybe because of that) glass is the hardest material to effectively 3D print. In the limited number of…
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Researchers at Rice University’s Brown School of Engineering have 3D printed lightweight plastic structures that have hardness properties similar to diamond. In an impressive experiment, the team shot bullets at the cubic 3D printed structures with barely any effect. How have the researchers created bulletproof plastic cubes? The answer is…
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A new technique called MM3D (multimaterial multi-nozzle 3D) printing developed by Harvard’s Wyss Institute researchers uses high-speed pressure valves to achieve rapid, continuous, and seamless switching between up to eight different printing materials. This new technique enables the creation of complex shapes in a fraction of the time currently required…
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A team of influential players in the AM industry are coming together to develop a new high-strength and lightweight aluminum alloy for the aerospace and automotive industries. Materials expert Oerlikon will be working alongside industrial gases company Linde and the Technical University of Munich (TUM) to pioneer the new 3D…
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UK-based infrastructure company Amey is the latest company exploring the use of additive manufacturing for the maintenance of the transportation industry. Unlike other companies we’ve seen, which are using 3D printing to produce spare or replacement parts for trains, Amey is looking into the technology for maintaining and renewing train tracks.…
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GE Additive has signed a five-year cooperative R&D agreement (CRADA) with the DOE’s Oak Ridge National Laboratory (ORNL) aimed at establishing AM process, materials and software that accelerate the industrialization and adoption of the manufacturing technology. Though GE and ORNL have cooperated in the past (they signed a CRADA in…
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3D printing chocolate is nothing new. We’ve seen ample examples of extrusion-based technologies depositing melted chocolate layer by layer to build up all kinds of simple shapes. Recently, however, a team from the Singapore University of Technology and Design (SUTD) has made a breakthrough in chocolate 3D printing, moving away…
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Fabrisonic, a specialist in solid-state metal 3D printing, recently teamed up with EWI and Luna Innovations to develop a smart baseplate to better understand the powder bed fusion AM process and how baseplates can influence print quality. As Fabrisonic does not work with powder-based AM, it utilized its low-temperature Ultrasonic…
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