Additive manufacturing put to the test by new $1.5M x-ray CT system at Auburn University

The National Center for Additive Manufacturing Excellence (NCAME) at Auburn University, Alabama, is now home to a $1.5 million x-ray CT system. The new machine is to be applied to the nondestructive testing (NDT) of 3D printed parts, essential to the university’s programs to produce “mission critical” parts for aerospace and aviation industries. The system was […]

University of Cincinnati say ice could help the NDT of metal 3D printed parts

Francesco Simonetti, an aerospace engineering professor at the University of Cincinnati,  and his undergraduate student Michael Fox have developed a new method of non-destructive testing (NDT) for inspecting metal 3D printed components. Detailed in a study for NDT & E International the technique, termed cryoultrasonics, unusually combines ice and ultrasound to overcome inadequacies associated with other […]

Motorbikes, ships, scandium and NDT: inside Additive Manufacturing journal Oct. 2018

As seen from the highly efficient 3D printed batteries at Carnegie Mellon University (CMU) and Missouri University of Science and Technology, the October 2018 edition of ScienceDirect’s Additive Manufacturing journal is now in progress. Volume 23 currently includes the work of 9 innovative research groups from leading institutions all around the world, including projects from the Fraunhofer Institute for Laser Technology (ILT), the University of Cádiz and […]