Browse Topic: Fabrication
NASA has developed a novel approach for macroscale biomaterial production by combining synthetic biology with 3D printing. Cells are biologically engineered to deposit desired materials, such as proteins or metals, derived from locally available resources. The bioengineered cells build different materials in a specified 3D pattern to produce novel microstructures with precise molecular composition, thickness, print pattern, and shape. Scaffolds and reagents can be used for further control over material product. This innovation provides modern design and fabrication techniques for custom-designed organic or organic-inorganic composite biomaterials produced from limited resources.
In the electrical machines, detrimental effects resulted often due to the overheating, such as insulation material degradation, demagnetization of the magnet and increased Joule losses which result in decreased lifetime, and reduced efficiency of the motor. Hence, by effective cooling methods, it is vital to optimize the reliability and performance of the electric motors and to reduce the maintenance and operating costs. This study brings the analysis capability of CFD for the air-cooling of an Electric-Motor (E-Motor) powering on Deere Equipment's. With the aggressive focus on electrification in agriculture domain and based on industry needs of tackling rising global warming, there is an increasing need of CFD modeling to perform virtual simulations of the E-Motors to determine the viability of the designs and their performance capabilities. The thermal predictions are extremely vital as they have tremendous impact on the design, spacing and sizes of these motors.
Innovators at NASA Johnson Space Center have developed additively manufactured thermal protection system (AMTPS) comprised of two printable heat shield material formulations. These formulations are directly applied by 3D printer or other robotic extrusion system and bonded to a spacecraft to devise a heat shield suitable for atmospheric entry. This technology could significantly decrease heat shield or thermal protection system (TPS) fabrication cost and time.
The assessment of collision risks is crucial for effective risk control and scientific management of maritime safety. To prevent maritime transportation accidents, an accident causation model has been proposed to analyze risks in maritime transportation systems. The 24-model further analyzes the impact pathways of accident factors in the accident chain and calculates the fit of HOF-related factors. Using Bayesian Networks as a foundation and the 24-model as a tool, a Bayesian Network model for collision risk is constructed by identifying risk factors and determining their correlations, utilizing accident data from Chinese maritime authorities. Utilizing a Bayesian Network to construct a ship collision risk model that couples HOF and calculates conditional probabilities of relevant node occurrences. To explore the coupled relationships between nodes in a network, this study employs the N-K model to construct a safety risk coupling model for ship collision accidents, calculating risk
A research team led by scientists at Lawrence Berkeley National Laboratory (Berkeley Lab) has developed a new fabrication technique that could improve noise robustness in superconducting qubits, a key technology for enabling large-scale quantum computers.
Through the Artemis campaign, NASA will send astronauts on missions to and around the Moon. The agency and its international partners report progress continues on Gateway, the first space station that will permanently orbit the Moon, after visiting the Thales Alenia Space facility in Turin, Italy, where initial fabrication for one of two Gateway habitation modules is nearing completion.
The scope of this SAE Aerospace Recommended Practice (ARP) is to establish the procedure for creating titles of aerospace tubing and clamp installation documents generated by SAE Subcommittee G-3E.
Aqueous zinc-ion batteries (ZIBs) have attracted extensive attention due to their high safety, abundant reserves, and environmental friendliness. Iodine with high abundance in seawater (55 μg L-1) is highly promising for fabricating zinc-iodine batteries due to its high theoretical capacity (211 mAh g-1) and appropriate redox potential (0.54V). However, the low electrical conductivity of iodine hinders the redox conversion for an efficient energy storage process with zinc. Additionally, the formed soluble polyiodides are prone to migrate to the Zn anode, leading to capacity degradation and Zn corrosion.
The mass production of conventional silicon chips relies on a successful business model with large “semiconductor fabrication plants” or “foundries.” New research by KU Leuven and imec shows that this “foundry” model can also be applied to the field of flexible, thin-film electronics. Adopting this approach would give innovation in the field a huge boost.
MEMS is a more complex technology than traditional semiconductors. They are 3D structures with moving parts, making them much more difficult to fabricate. If you’re designing a semiconductor, you may be able to take advantage of an existing process development kit (PDK), which your foundry can provide to you. There is no equivalent approach in MEMS. It’s a “one process, one product” paradigm that requires a high level of customization. That takes time, money, and resources.
3D-printed microscopic particles, so small that to the naked eye they look like dust, have applications in drug and vaccine delivery, microelectronics, microfluidics, and abrasives for intricate manufacturing. However, the need for precise coordination between light delivery, stage movement, and resin properties makes scalable fabrication of such custom microscale particles challenging. Now, researchers at Stanford University have introduced a more efficient processing technique that can print up to 1 million highly detailed and customizable microscale particles a day.
Purdue University material engineers have created a patent-pending process to develop ultrahigh-strength aluminum alloys that are suitable for additive manufacturing because of their plastic deformability.
Additive Manufacturing (AM), particularly Fused Deposition Modeling (FDM), has emerged as a revolutionary method for fabricating complex geometries using a variety of materials. Polyethylene terephthalate glycol (PETG) is a thermoplastic material that is biodegradable and environmentally friendly, making it a preferred choice in additive manufacturing (AM) due to its affordability and ease of use. This study aims to optimize the FDM settings for PETG material and investigate the impact of key process parameters on printing performance. An experimental study was conducted to evaluate the influence of crucial factors in FDM, including layer thickness, infill density, printing speed, and nozzle temperature, on significant outcomes such as dimensional accuracy, surface quality, and mechanical properties. The use of the Grey Relational Analysis (GRA) approach enabled a systematic assessment of multi-performance characteristics, facilitating the optimization of the FDM process. The findings
A novel sintering method of bridging the two mechanically polished and oriented single-crystals together face-to-face in a non- environmental controlled atmosphere to fabricate the bicrystal substrate of NaCl of macroscopic thickness, with a common zone axis and having planarity over large areas, has been developed. Epitaxial [001] bicrystalline thin face-centered cubic (fcc) metal film of surface-reactive metal-containing tilt grain boundary across the interface is first grown in high vacuum directly by flash deposition on initially fabricated [001] oriented bicrystalline substrate of NaCl. The [001] tilt boundary, thus produced, and is examined by electron microscopy to characterize grain boundary morphology and structure. The findings of some preliminary investigations are then presented. A distinct atomic structure is observed for 310 and 210 inclination. Both HAADF-STEM and Diffraction images reveal that such fabricated high-angle grain boundary accommodates minor deviations from
Nowadays, there are many technologies emerging like firefighting robots, quadcopters, and drones which are capable of operating in hazardous disaster scenarios. In recent years, fire emergencies have become an increasingly serious problem, leading to hundreds of deaths, thousands of injuries, and the destruction of property worth millions of dollars. According to the National Crime Records Bureau (NCRB), India recorded approximately 1,218 fire incidents resulting in 1,694 deaths in 2020 alone. Globally, the World Health Organization (WHO) estimates that fires account for around 265,000 deaths each year, with the majority occurring in low- and middle-income countries. The existing fire-extinguishing systems are often inefficient and lack proper testing, causing significant delays in firefighting efforts. These delays become even more critical in situations involving high-rise buildings or bushfires, where reaching the affected areas is particularly challenging. The leading causes of
Our energy future may depend on high-temperature superconducting (HTS) wires. This technology’s ability to carry electricity without resistance at temperatures higher than those required by traditional superconductors could revolutionize the electric grid and even enable commercial nuclear fusion.
United States microchip fab plants can cram billions of data-processing transistors onto a tiny silicon chip, but the “clock,” which times the transistors’ operations, must be made separately, which creates a flaw in chip security as well as the supply line. However, a new approach uses commercial chip fab materials and techniques to fabricate specialized transistors to serve as the building block of the timing device.
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