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.

A look at Rotational multimaterial 3D printing

A research team from Harvard, has developed a Rotational multimaterial printing technology for creating helical filaments. Using this new approach, the team designed and fabricated artificial muscles and springy lattices for use in soft...

Rounding off another demanding year: what the AM industry should keep from 2022 to move forward in 2023

From mergers & acquisitions to bankruptcies, expected & unexpected milestones, 2022 led us through an emotional rollercoaster. As 2022 draws to a close, 3D ADEPT Media is looking back over a year difficult to...

An OpeN-AM experimental platform enables to study the microscopic behavior of additive metal welds as they’re being created

The experimental platform system is called OpeN-AM, with OpeN being short for operando neutrons, a term for using neutrons to study something while it’s operating, and AM for additive manufacturing. Researchers at the Department of...

Could metal 3D printed high-temperature, high-pressure receivers help to a decarbonized world?

While harnessing energy from the sun is key to a decarbonized world, getting to those higher temperatures needed in industry is often the Holy Grail for industrials. To reach them, they should either use...

Lockheed Martin and Sintavia to explore metal additive manufacturing opportunities as an alternative to castings and forgings

This is an interesting partnership: a global security and aerospace company (Lockheed Martin) on the one hand and a designer and manufacturer of advanced propulsion and thermodynamic systems (Sintavia) join forces to expand research...

ANDRITZ Savonlinna Works Oy & FAME 3D print large pressure vessel

Pressure vessels are enclosed containers that hold liquids, vapors, and gases at a pressure significantly higher or lower than the ambient pressure. Their size varies from whether they are use within a residential environment...

TRUMPF 3D prints critical part for particle accelerator for CERN-coordinated I.FAST project

If you read this article, you may have seen a pure-copper accelerator component produced using AM as part of the EU-funded I.FAST project coordinated by CERN. I.FAST which stands for Innovation Fostering in Accelerator...

This 3D printed non-electric humidifier is made out of recycled industrial waste

A humidifier is a device, primarily an electrical appliance, that increases humidity (releases cool mist into the air) in a single room or an entire building. It turns out that the same device can...

SAM Project to end with an event on AM Sector Skills Strategy Roadmap consolidation and recommendations for sustainability

Sector Skills Strategy in Additive Manufacturing aka SAM, a project that started three years ago with the goal of accelerating the development of the AM workforce through targeted education, is gradually reaching its end. Over...

7 companies join forces to create the “Bavarian AM Cluster”

Unique about this cooperation is the immediate proximity of all partners and institutions to each other as the association’s premises will be located on the Garching campus in the same building as those of...

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