Research & Development

If you think for a second, the biggest innovations that are shaking the world of today started with R&D. This stage has been fundamental in any industrial revolution, including additive manufacturing. This segment highlights the latest AM developments in the R&D sector.

An additive manufacturing standard-guide for mechanical testing of plastics will be available soon

Standardization organization ASTM, is currently working on an additive manufacturing standard-guide for mechanical testing of plastics (WK66029). AM operators, AM systems suppliers, material producers, testing laboratories, technology adopters, type-certification holders, and certificate regulators will learn...

ExOne Licenses ORNL Ceramic Metal 3D Printing to produce neutron imaging parts

Specialist of binder jetting technology ExOne has licensed a patent-pending method of 3D printing a ceramic-metal material from the Oak Ridge National Laboratory (ORNL). Both companies had previously announced their collaboration to develop cutting-edge technology...

FIT AG explores welding processes for SLS 3D printed parts and injection molded parts

FIT Additive Manufacturing Group is engaged in a joint research project FAB-Weld that focuses on the welding of additively manufactured parts to create individualized series components Bavarian State Minister of Science launched a grant notification for the joint research project...

3D-printed programmable materials help in the creation of soft robotics

Soft robotics show a great potential when they can safely interact with humans and other delicate objects. They enable the production of soft programmable mechanisms that are used to power this new generation of robots. In that context, researchers at...

3D-printed pill would help in the treatment of intestinal diseases

Boston-based Tufts University has developed a 3D printed pill that samples bacteria found in the gut.  Known as the microbiome, the bacteria would pass through the gastrointestinal tract (GI) and would affect health conditions....

3D bioprinted organ models, a market that worth $1.9 billion

Currently, the average wait time for a liver is 4 to 5 months and 2.5 to 3 years for a kidney in the U.K. Despite the acceleration in 3D bioprinting research, we are still...

Growth opportunities of 3D Printing in the chemicals & materials sector

Key trends such as 3D printing, digital transformation, circular economy, lightweighting, and C02 as feedstock are poised to create a dynamic year for the global chemicals and materials in infrastructure and mobility applications sector. Frost &...

Canadian researchers to use EBM additive manufacturing technology to study structural metals

GE Additive electro-beam melting (EBM) technology is currently at the heart of additive materials research in Canada. Following major investment from the Natural Sciences and Engineering Research Council of Canada (NSERC), the Holistic Innovation in...

Norsk Titanium to achieve the next phase of Additive Manufactured Integrally Bladed Rotor

Last year, scientists from the University of Notre Dame Turbomachinery Laboratory (NDTL), Norsk Titanium (Norsk), Pratt & Whitney and TURBOCAM International successfully achieved on initial testing of an additively manufactured integrally bladed rotor (IBR). Today...

3D Printing helps to bring back to life a 3D Printed model of the Boulto-Watt steam engine

It took five months to a group of students from University of Glasgow to build a 3D Printed model of one of James Watt famous engines. Literally two centuries after his death, the 3D Printed...

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