Auburn University has established a new Centre of Industrialised Additive Manufacturing, with Tony Overfelt being appointed as the director. The $1.5m grant is expected to direct the research into ways for smaller manufacturing companies to use AM.
UL and new research and development organisation, Brightlands Materials Centre have signed a Letter of Intent to provide AM training to emerging markets. Brightlands will host the workshops at their Chemelot Campus in The Netherlands.
A team of researchers from a range of American Universities has manufactured small 3D-printed structures which shrink when heated, rather than expand. Each structure is about the size of a sugar cube and quickly shrinks when it reaches 282 degrees C.
Editor, Daniel O'Connor visited the opening of the Under the Microscope exhibit at Great Ormond Street Children's Hospital to see how 3D printing is improving communication between patients and doctors.
A new technique developed at the University of Bristol shows how, by hacking off-the-shelf 3D printers, smart materials with reinforcements can be 3D printed by ultrasonically arranging microstructures.
The project aims to revolutionise the future of fibre-optics, bringing benefits to a variety of technological and industrial sectors with 3D printing techniques.
Renishaw Tehnični Inženiring d.o.o., within the Faculty of Electrical Engineering at the University of Ljubljana, Slovenia will design, develop and supply itegrated circuits and sensors.
Researchers at Zhejiang University and Columbia University develop unique 3D vision system with Kinect camera to accurately apply images onto 3D printed objects with hydrographic printing.
