Additive Manufacturing

Autoclave

Additive manufacturing: Can you print a car?

Collaborative demonstration dispels doubt about 3D printing’s disruptive potential for direct-to-digital manufacturing of just about anything BIG.

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Additive manufacturing: Metal vs. composites

3D printed metals seem to be moving into aerospace production at lightning speed. In reality, they face significant issues including standards and certification.

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Medical

3D Printing continuous carbon fiber composites?

Additive manufacturing startup MarkForged aims to make it happen and is already marketing systems.

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Additive manufacturing a new frontier for composites

Leading additive manufacturing authority Terry Wohlers (Wohlers Associates Inc., Ft. Collins., Colo.) comments on two decades of AM progress and AM's prospects as a composites manufacturing solution.

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The rise of rapid manufacturing

An outgrowth of rapid prototyping, tool-free additive fabrication technologies have the potential to form small, limited-run composite parts directly from CAD data.

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Adhesives

Rapid Manufacturing, Part II: Pioneer Applications

Harbingers of what could be a significant trend, these composites manufacturers demonstrate the potential of additive fabrication and several innovative materials in tool-free manufacture of complex components.

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Aerospace

Rapid Manufacturing, Part I: The Technologies

An outgrowth of rapid prototyping, tool-free additive fabrication is shortening product development cycles for manufacturers of smaller, limited-run composite parts.

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Focus on Design: The promise of rapid manufacturing

Selective Laser Sintering technology and new materials abbreviate the design phase and produce a key part for a new motorcycle racing engine.

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microwire technology for composites