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8 Cool Parts From RAPID+TCT 2022: The Cool Parts Show #46

AM parts for applications from automotive to aircraft to furniture, in materials including ceramic, foam, metal and copper-coated polymer.

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Lightweighting

Lightweight Components: A Paradox When Machining

Today’s computer software can just as easily generate lightweight shapes for subtractive processes as it can for additive ones, but it increases cost and waste to make them.

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Creating Designs That 3D Printing Experts Love

3D printing can create virtually any shape imaginable, but that doesn’t mean it will be easy to print. How to design parts that are printable as well as functional.

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Production

RAPID + TCT 2022 Report: Advancing into the Next Season of Additive Manufacturing: AM Radio #18

Editors Stephanie Hendrixson, Peter Zelinski and Julia Hider share observations, insights and photos from the latest RAPID + TCT trade show. 

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How Additive Manufacturing is Filling Electric Vehicle Production Needs

Electric vehicles are reshaping transportation, but they are also changing vehicle production. Electrification brings a blank slate to the manufacturing process, providing inroads for additive manufacturing to potentially fill production needs.

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Materials

Flexing Thermoset Polymers Into Production 3D Printing

Chromatic 3D Materials develops tough and flexible thermosetting urethanes for additive manufacturing. The resin formulation is only part of the path to scale.

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Materials

Audi Creates 3D Printing Filament from Parts Packaging

The German automotive company is among the leaders in material reuse—which includes making filaments from what might otherwise be considered waste.

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Ceramic

Safer Nuclear Energy: 3D Printed Silicon Carbide Fuel Forms

Binder jetting provides a way to create pure silicon carbide fuel structures that can withstand the harsh environment of a nuclear reactor and provide a strong barrier against the release of radionuclides.

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Energy & Power

In Power Generation, the Changes From 3D Printing Will Be System-Wide

Additive manufacturing holds promise for various vital components of a gas turbine, and for greater output in hydro and nuclear power as well. Recent articles find many different advances from AM that will sum to transform the power generation sector.

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Composites

Additive for Composites and Composites for Additive: AM Radio #17

CompositesWorld’s Jeff Sloan joins Peter Zelinski in an episode of the AM Radio podcast about how composites and 3D printing are changing one another.

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Sustainability

How Large-Format 3D Printing Supports Micro-Scale Hydropower

There is potential hydroelectric power that has never been unlocked because of the difficulty in capturing it. At Cadens, additive manufacturing is the key to customizing micro-scale water turbine systems to generate electricity from smaller dams and waterways.

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Energy & Power

Gas Turbine Swirlers: Co-Optimizing Despite the Complexity

Power generation and additive manufacturing researchers at Penn State University have joined forces to explore what impact the design of a swirler can have on gas turbine performance.

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