Aerospace has always been about pushing boundaries, but the way parts are actually made has long stayed rooted in old habits.
Laser printing of metals has proven itself as a viable manufacturing process. No longer just for "impossible to machine" or waifish parts where material characteristics were the design feature needed ...
With additive manufacturing, used to build this heat exchanger, one key is to do prototyping for the part and then see whether additive or subtractive manufacturing is the better choice of manufacture ...
MAZAK MEGASTIR recently presented a series of new developments for advanced joining processes, including dynamic and intelligent FSW toolholders and its recently released line of diamond tool tips for ...