strain sensors
A Growing Area of Interest: 3D Printed Kirigami Sensors
Kirigami is a Japanese art and craft form where paper is cut and folded into intricate shapes. Often these shapes, accordion-like, can unfold into striking new forms. Whereas origami stretches…
Glasgow University Develops 3D Printed PEEK Lattices with Tuned Auxetic Properties
Glasgow University researchers have made PEEK-based lattice parts with tunable auxetic properties. The team published their work in Materials Horizons, building on similar work from last year with PLA. In…
How Conformal Will Change Design and 3D Printing
For over a decade, conformal cooling for molds has been an oft-cited 3D printing application. Conformal batteries are talked about periodically, as well. Sometimes you’ll see a mention of conformal…
Adjusting the Design, Material, and Parameters of a 3D Printed Strain Gauge with Computational Simulation
A trio of researchers from the Singapore Center for 3D Printing at Nanyang Technological University recently published a paper, titled “Aerosol Jet Printed Strain Sensor: Simulation Studies Analyzing the Effect of…
3D Printing Put to Use to Create More Sensitive Strain Gauges for High-Temperature Applications
What’s one major thing that airplanes, bridges, and weigh stations have in common? If you answered strain gauges, you were right. These simple devices measure the strain, or pull, on…
Measuring the Residual Strains in 3D Printed Components
It seems these days that when speaking of 3D printing, it is nearly compulsory to use the words ‘revolution’ and ‘paradigm shift.’ While it is true that 3D printing has…
Designer Chemistry Mixed with 3D Printing Results in Innovative Safety Sensors
It’s a formidable combination as designer chemistry meets 3D printing, proving that the two may have a very promising future together. In a recent research project funded by the University…
Researchers 3D Print Electrically Conductive Strain Sensors
It is amazing how quickly 3D printing technology has been advancing. The advancements we have seen from the time Chuck Hull invented the process of stereolithography in 1983 until the…
