AM Research
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Building on several years of experience analyzing and forecasting the opportunities associated with additive manufacturing composite FRP materials, 3dpbm Research is conducting the industry’s most comprehensive market study on this topic. If you are actively engaged in providing or developing composite AM technology and materials or are considering AM for…
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Mihaela Vlasea, an engineering professor at The University of Waterloo in Ontario, Canada who specializes in additive manufacturing, has been recognized as one of the top young engineers in manufacturing in Canada and the United States. Vlasea, who is associate research director at the Multi-Scale Additive Manufacturing Lab (MSAM), was…
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A team from Montana State University’s Department of Mechanical and Industrial Engineering has developed a new technique for 3D printing microfluidic devices. The new method is capable of 3D printing directly onto a glass substrate to create thin fluid channels measuring less than a millimeter in width. The novel process…
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A U.S. Air Force program led by the Air Force Research Laboratory (AFRL) and Air Force Life Cycle Management Center (AFLCMC) is leveraging Senvol’s data-driven machine learning software for additive manufacturing to develop a methodology for demonstrating the viability of multi-laser AM systems for flight applications. Specifically, the Senvol ML…
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ExOne‘s binder jetting technology is at the center of a series of manufacturing research projects led by Pennsylvania universities. Five of the projects have recently received funding through the Manufacturing PA Innovation Program. The funding comes from a total of $2.8 million that was awarded through the Department of Community and…
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This interview was originally published in the 3dpbm AM Focus eBook on Sustainability. Last November at Formnext 2019, aerospace and defense AM company Sintavia announced the launch of a new trade group aimed at promoting the environmental benefits of additive manufacturing technologies. The group, called the Additive Manufacturer Green Trade…
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The German Federal Ministry of Education and Research has funded and launched POLYLINE, a collaborative project aimed at developing a next-generation production line for the automotive industry. The €10.7 million project specifically addresses the integration of additive manufacturing into plastic part production in the automotive industry to complement conventional production…
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A research team at Lawrence Livermore National Laboratory (LLNL) has developed a plan for minimizing defects in parts printed using laser-based metal additive manufacturing processes. The strategy, which was conducted in collaboration with the Air Force Research Laboratory (AFRL), was conceived using the lab’s high-fidelity computer simulation capability and ultra-high-speed X-ray…
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Known by the acronym SLEDM (Selective LED-based Melting) – i.e. the targeted melting of metal powder using high-power LED light sources – a new technology developed at Graz University of Technology uses LED instead of laser or electron beam sources for the additive manufacturing of metal parts. The process optimizes…
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A team of researchers from Texas A&M University and the Air Force Research Laboratory (AFRL) has developed a technique for 3D printing defect-free parts made from martensitic steel, a steel variant with superior strength and which is more cost-effective to produce. The hard steel has applications in the aerospace, automotive…
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