Academia, Research & Development

Rights reserved: A new digital watermarking method for 3D printing models

Senior Content Producer Sam Davies talks to the professor behind the 3D printing industry's latest IP protection patent.

By Sam Davies

/ 23 Dec 2020

Rights reserved: A new digital watermarking method for 3D printing models

GE Additive strikes public-private 3D printing partnership with Indiana Economic Development Corporation

GE Additive has agreed to co-invest in additive manufacturing R&D efforts along with Indiana Economic Development Corporation.

By TCT Team

/ 28 Oct 2020

Promoting the sustainability benefits of additive manufacturing through research

Additive manufacturing's first sustainability focused trade association (AMGTA) on their plans to enhance AM’s environmental impact.

By TCT Team

/ 20 Oct 2020

Teamwork makes the 3D Printing dream work

TCT Expert Advisory Board member, RMIT University Additive Manufacturing (AM) Fellow and Managing Director of Additive Economics Alex Kingsbury on building an AM innovation centre.

By TCT Team

/ 25 Sep 2020

Additive manufacturing research within the High Value Manufacturing Catapult

The AMRC’s James Hunt on leveraging the UK’s AM research facilities to allow companies to de-risk their journey towards AM adoption.

By TCT Team

/ 23 Sep 2020

Federal Aviation Administration grants Auburn University $3m for aerospace additive manufacturing research

The National Center for Additive Manufacturing Excellence (NCAME) at Auburn University is to initiate a two-year aerospace additive manufacturing project with backing from the Federal Aviation Administration (FAA).

By TCT Team

/ 24 Aug 2020

FAA Auburn Uni Auburn Engineering faculty: Nima Shamsaei (left) and Steve Taylor (right).

Linde and 3D Medlab announce additively manufactured medical device research effort

Linde and 3D Medlab have announced a research partnership that will explore how atmospheric conditions in the additive manufacturing process can be optimised to produce complex latticed structures in medical devices.

By TCT Team

/ 28 Jul 2020

Spaceship EAC team explores lunar construction by 3D printing simulated Moon dust

Using ""low-tech" approach to a high-tech situation,'' student Billy Grundström is working with Spaceship EAC's advanced manufacturing team to 3D print parts from simulated Moon dust.

By TCT Team

/ 15 Jul 2020

Hollow cylinder 3D printed using the lunar regolith simulant EAC-1A. (Image Credit: ESA-B.Grundström)

Researchers uncover novel method for 3D printing latex rubber

Researchers at Virginia Tech have developed a process for 3D printing latex rubber in a joint industry-academic collaboration.

By TCT Team

/ 14 Jul 2020

Researchers uncover novel method for 3D printing latex rubber

ExOne binder jet 3D printing technology to be focus of five new research projects

Five research projects set to focus on Binder Jetting in collaboration with ExOne have received grants from the Manufacturing PA Programme.

By TCT Team

/ 18 Jun 2020

ExOne binder jet 3D printing technology to be focus of five new research projects

3D printing used by Italian researchers to produce International Space Station cosmic UV telescope

Italy’s National Institute for Nuclear Physics has used Stratasys FDM 3D printing technology to produce the entire mechanical structure of a cosmic UV telescope for the International Space Station.

By TCT Team

/ 21 May 2020

3D printed Mini-EUSO placed on an earth-facing window of the Russian Zvezda module of the ISS. 3D printed Mini-EUSO placed on an earth-facing window of the Russian Zvezda module of th...

Oak Ridge National Laboratory developing 3D printed nuclear reactor core

Oak Ridge National Laboratory (ORNL) is working on the design of a 3D printed nuclear reactor core which is scheduled to be turned on by 2023.

By TCT Team

/ 12 May 2020

ORNL metal parts - Brittany Cramer/Oak Ridge National Laboratory, U.S. Dept. of Energy