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The Definitive AM Course: MIT’s Additive Manufacturing for Innovative Design and Production Starts October 1st
MIT has played a pivotal role in 3D printing for decades and has made seminal contributions to the advancement of machines, materials, and design tools. Recent work on 3D printed circuits and active materials, and startups such as Formlabs and Desktop Metal, have all...
Assessing Impact Resistance of 3D Printed Polyjet Objects
An object’s design has a large influence on how damage-resistant it is. In a thesis entitled “Peridynamic Modeling of Dynamic Fracture in Bio-Inspired Structures for High Velocity Impacts,” a University of Nebraska-Lincoln Master’s student...
Researchers Inspired by Nature to Develop Recyclable Liquid Crystal Polymers for FDM 3D Printing
While it’s possibly to quickly manufacture complex parts at a low cost using fused deposition modeling (FDM) 3D printing, the readily available polymers are fairly weak, and the completed 3D prints have poor adhesion. According to an ETH Zürich research group...
ARRK Uses 3D Printing to Develop Sensitive Dummy for Automotive Testing
Automotive manufacturers use dummies for more than just testing how well a vehicle will hold up in a crash. They also use them to test comfort factors, such as temperature and other environmental conditions. Recently, ARRK Engineering was in need of a dummy to help...
GE Additive Customer Uses DMLM 3D Printing to Manufacture Blades for Medical Cutting Device
As the population continues to age, the number of necessary hip replacements rise, which means we’re seeing more 3D printed hip implants and hip cups. Implanting a hip cup is fairly straightforward these days, but removing one, for reasons ranging from abrasion...
Tortoise Pals Bond Over Their 3D Printed Shells
Daisy is a 75-pound tortoise who was injured by a car. She survived the accident but was left with two holes in her shell, leaving her vulnerable to infection and possible spinal damage. Although the holes were bandaged, the bandages had to be changed frequently,...
Siemens Mobility Turns to 3D Printing for Digital Maintenance
More and more railway systems are finding that digital inventories and 3D printed replacement parts are an effective way to save money and time and to combat obsolescence. Siemens Mobility is the latest to jump on that train, so to speak, with the opening of its first...
MIT CSAIL Creates 3D Printable Sculptures of the Body in Motion
MIT’s Computer Science and Artificial Intelligence Laboratory (CSAIL) is responsible for numerous fascinating innovations, many of them related to 3D printing, including color-changing ink, origami-inspired robots, and much more. The lab’s latest project...3DPrint.com Highlights & Resources
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