Last year, Ohio-based company Fabrisonic teamed up with optical measurement technology leader Luna Innovations to make 3D printed smart structures, using its patented hybrid metal Ultrasonic Additive Manufacturing (UAM) process, that had embedded fiber optic sensors.
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Together, the companies planned to use the structures to determine such things as finding a critical component’s exact strain during operation.
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The partners were awarded two separate research contracts from the SBIR/STTR program for this work, which began with developing a smart pipe for fuel systems at NASA. The second contract had an overall goal of improving the methodology for powder bed fusion (PBF) 3D printing processes, determining how to properly measure capability and stress, and anticipating any issues ahead of time.
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Mark Norfolk “Although our process does not use powders , we have lots of friends in industry that use powder based processes,” Fabrisonic’s President and CEO Mark Norfolk wrote […]
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