Metal Articles

Aircraft with Titanium 3D-Printed Parts

The XB-1 aircraft contains more than 20 titanium parts from the 3D printer, mainly for critical engine operations in an extremely high temperature environment. . The aircraft contains more than 20 printed titanium parts. The digital manufacturing innovator VELO3D...

Why Was This Block 3D Printed? To Help With Machining

This fixture tool for holding additive manufactured parts for machining was made within the same additive manufacturing build as the parts themselves. . Production metal parts made via additive manufacturing (AM) generally need CNC machining as a secondary step. The...

6K Welcomes Expert Metal 3D Printing Team Members and Magnus René as Advisor

U.S. company 6K , which has locations in West Virginia and Massachusetts, uses proprietary advanced plasma processing to develop AM powders from sustainable sources. . The company is so named for its continuous UniMelt process, which it says is the world’s only...

Lab study of droplet dynamics advances 3D printing

A comparison between the experimentally observed ejected droplet shape at break-up (a) and the simulated droplet shape (b) at various operating conditions approaching the experimental conditions. The simulated droplet shape significantly differs from experiments,...