To create the new iMac, Apple’s thinnest desktop yet, the designers used friction-stir welding to join the aluminum body. Unlike arc welding, the more standard way to fuse metal plates, a friction ...

Addman Advanced Metals has scaled from a single 3D printer to 25 while also building out a robust array of subtractive machines. In this video, find out how the shop manages its additive and ...

Friction stir welding joins previously unweldable materials. Friction stir welding, a relatively new process, is having a tremendous impact on welding dissimilar alloys. It was developed in 1991 by ...

Please Note: Blog posts are not selected, edited or screened by Seeking Alpha editors. According to a new market report published by Credence Research, Inc., “Global Friction Stir Welding Market (By ...

NASA's next heavy-lift launch vehicle, the Space Launch System, is moving further in development faster thanks to proven advanced technologies like friction stir welding. Friction stir welding uses ...

Fontaine Commercial Trailer Inc. announced it assembles its Revolution brand all-aluminum platform trailer using StirLITE friction stir welding, just as the aerospace industry uses friction stir ...

Concurrent Technologies Corp. has a $1.2 million contract to supply engineering and welding services for Starlab Space LLC's next-generation commercial space station. The contract has been awarded to ...

A new technique joins off-the-shelf aluminum lithium plates with friction-stir welding to produce a large starting blank for spin forming fuel-tank domes. Engineers at NASA’s Marshall Space Flight ...

What it's used for: Joining pieces of spacecraft with friction instead of blowtorches. NASA Delays Launch of Artemis II Lunar Mission Once Again A failure in the helium flow of the SLS rocket has ...

• The process is completed in a few seconds with very high reproducibility - an essential requirement for a mass production industry. Now, a new variant from the same stable of friction processes, ...

Artificial Intelligence, or AI, promises many benefits in all domains, and rocketry is no different. The European Space Agency's Future Launchers Preparatory Program (FLPP) is investigating the use of ...