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3D Printing

Hot Off The Press: 3D Printing Has Pushed This Gas Turbine To New Highs

June 19, 2018
In 2012, Andrew Passmore thought he had taken a machine to its limits. His team of engineers had just upgraded a gas turbine powerful enough to supply with electricity the equivalent of  200,000 European homes. It was the second upgrade in seven years, but the team still managed to wring an extra 12 megawatts (MW) from the turbine, boosting its power capacity to 180 MW.
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Peer Review: Advanced Inspection Center Puts 3D-Printed Parts Through Their Paces

Tomas Kellner
May 22, 2018
The land that is now the state of Ohio spent millions of years beneath a sea teeming with prehistoric aquatic life, making it fertile ground for today’s fossil hunters. One particularly rich area is a limestone and shale hillock just outside Cincinnati called Trammel Fossil Park. Every day, amateur archaeologists equipped with hammers and buckets descend on the place to look for the starfishlike Isorophus cincinnatiensis, the official fossil of Cincinnati, and its ancient cousins.
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Mind Meld: GE’s 3D Printing Summit Explores Additive Manufacturing’s Exponential Future

Tomas Kellner
May 04, 2018
There was something unusual about a bicycle parked near the entrance to GE’s first Industry in 3D summit, which took place Thursday in New York’s historic West Village neighborhood. Developed by the German designer Ralf Holleis, the bike had ornate lugs that harkened back to an era when artisanal handicraft ruled, but the way they were made — printed by a laser from fine layers of titanium powder, making the bike lighter than a regulation Tour de France model — pointed to the future.
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Ship Shapes: New 3D Printing Research Aims To Rejuvenate Navy Gear

Dorothy Pomerantz
May 02, 2018
"When a warship breaks down, the Navy needs to get it running again right away. A new GE Global Research program is developing ways to scan and 3D-print replacement parts out of metal melted with lasers, to get them back to the ship as quickly as possible.
The Navy cares about this technology because its fleet is aging, with ships dating back decades. Many of the parts that make up these vessels are so old that substitutes are no longer manufactured, and replacement parts have to be custom-designed.
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3D Printing

The Metal Head: How A High School Dropout Built A Pioneering 3D Printing Business

Yari Bovalino
Tomas Kellner
April 30, 2018
Frank Herzog was still in elementary school in the historic Bavarian city of Bamberg when he fell in love — with metals. So ardent was his passion that he later quit high school to pursue it. “I was young when I realized that I loved the material,” he says.
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additive manufacturing

Heart To Heart: Two Innovators Reveal What's Next For 3D-Printing In Healthcare

Tomas Kellner
April 29, 2018
Jimmie Beacham, who runs GE Healthcare’s Advanced Manufacturing Lab in Waukesha, Wisconsin, received an unusual request a year ago. One of his colleagues asked him whether he could 3D print his heart. “He just had a CT scan, and he brought the data file to us,” Beacham says. “We said, ‘Why not?’ ”
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The Vanguard

The 5 Coolest Things On Earth This Week

Samantha Shaddock
April 07, 2018
NASA is planning to bring a swarm or robotic Marsbees to the Red Planet, engineers in Berkeley figured out how to 3D print liquids inside liquids, their pals at USC developed retinal implants that could help us see better in our dotage, and MIT researchers have found a way to take the words right out of your mouth. This week’s developments leave us speechless.
 

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Aerospace

Printing Heads: 3D Printing Has Launched A New Era In Aircraft Design

Tomas Kellner
March 22, 2018
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Just a decade ago, the idea of 3D printing metal parts directly from a computer file seemed like science fiction to many people. But the technology is quickly growing up. There are few better examples of its promise than the GE Catalyst, a new advanced turboprop engine GE Aviation started testing in December.

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Added Value: 3D Printing Program Helps Teachers Cultivate Next Generation Of Engineers

Dorothy Pomerantz
February 23, 2018
Two years ago, Bart Prorok, a professor of materials engineering at Auburn University in Alabama, decided his students needed to learn about additive manufacturing, also known as 3D printing, if they were going to be prepared for the jobs of tomorrow. But buying a commercial metal additive manufacturing machine was out of the question because of the price. Those machines can cost hundreds of thousands, even millions, of dollars apiece.
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Tour De Force: This Slovak Company Is 3D-Printing Bespoke Electric Mountain Bikes

Maggie Sieger
January 05, 2018
Patrik Paul loved riding his bike everywhere growing up in the Slovak capital Bratislava. He dreamed of the perfect mountain bike — one that exactly matched his center of gravity and perfectly gripped the track on curves. But such a bike simply wasn’t within his reach. The costs and technology for that level of customization would make it prohibitively expensive.
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