Turbojet engines are an incredible piece of 20th century engineering that except for some edge cases, have mostly been replaced by Turbofans. Still, even the most basic early designs were ...
Wind energy isn’t quite as common of an alternative energy source as solar, at least for small installations. It’s usually much easier just to throw a few panels and a battery together than it is to ...
Wire arc additive manufacturing allowed this robot arm at ORNL to transform metal wire into a complete steam turbine blade like those used in power plants. Credit: Carlos Jones/ORNL, U.S. Dept. of ...
UW mechanical engineering Ph.D. candidate Stephan Brinckmann, from Clinton, N.J., and first-year graduate student Jackson Rambough, of Kingston, Wash., display a computer model and prototype of the ...
A Dutch company has achieved a groundbreaking milestone by designing a 3D printed modular bridge that repurposes a decommissioned wind turbine blade as its main support structure. The Werkendam-based ...
Siemens announced it has successfully tested power generation gas turbine blades produced entirely through metal-based 3D printing, also known as Additive Manufacturing. The blades, tested under ...
A team of University of Maine (UMaine, Orono, U.S.) researchers have secured a $75,000 grant to explore recycling wind blades as feedstock for 3D printing. The award is a Phase 1 winner from the ...
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The Department of Energy's Oak Ridge National Laboratory (ORNL) has successfully employed 3D printing to create large rotating steam turbine blades for power plants, in collaboration with Siemens ...
Wire arc additive manufacturing allowed this robot arm at ORNL to transform metal wire into a complete steam turbine blade like those used in power plants. Researchers at the Department of Energy’s ...
FRANKFURT (Reuters) - German engineering group Siemens has run a successful test of power generation gas turbine blades produced wholly by metal-based 3D printing by UK-based Materials Solutions, ...