CHAMPAIGN, Ill. -- Makers of cars, planes, buses - anything that needs strong, lightweight and heat resistant parts - are poised to benefit from a new manufacturing process that requires only a quick ...

Makers of cars, planes, buses -- anything that needs strong, lightweight and heat resistant parts -- are poised to benefit from a new manufacturing process that requires only a quick touch from a ...

The quality of plastics is greatly influenced by the quality of the polymer used throughout the manufacturing process. Therefore, it is crucial to identify the polymer material composition during ...

Injection moulding remains the pre-eminent route for the economic manufacture of high-performance polymer parts, combining precise flow control with rapid cooling to define microstructure and ...

Lightweight, high-strength polymer composites are essential to modern engineering, but their production has long been hindered by complexity, inefficiency, and reliance on manual adjustments. A study ...

Polymer bearings do not operate in isolation. Their performance depends on how bearing materials mating surfaces, housings, ...

Polymers are organic materials that are characterized by unique properties, such as tensile strength and viscoelastic behavior under deformation. As a result, these materials are used extensively in ...

Aenne Koester, head of additive engineering and manufacturing at Lufthansa Technik Additive manufacturing already prints tens of thousands of polymer parts for major MROs every year. The technique ...

Myrias process uses the same NIL manufacturing tools as the incumbent polymer/nanoparticle composites, and offers ...

Researchers at the Air Force Research Laboratory’s Materials and Manufacturing Directorate (Wright-Patterson Air Force Base, OH, US) are “turning up the heat” in the field of polymer additive ...

The Industrial Internet of Things (IIoT) and smart manufacturing initiatives are accelerating the creation of new technologies, transforming global manufacturing. Like most innovation, competitive ...