A thermoplastic-based composite feedstock known as carbon fiber–ABS is the workhorse of polymer-composite 3D printing at DOE’s Manufacturing Demonstration Facility, located at ORNL.
It was the material that created the first 3D-printed car (the Strati), one of the first 3D-printed buildings (the ...
Additive manufacturing has many advantages over traditional manufacturing. It creates parts with essentially no waste. It produces complex designs as easily as simple ones. And it can go from design to finished product in a matter of hours rather than weeks or months. As impressive as it is, howe...
On the surface, additively manufactured parts may seem like just a series of really small welds, but the minute details of exactly how you print a component play a significant role in its performance.
The approach is substantially different from that of traditional manufacturing, where the links ...
ORNL is proud of its role in fostering the next generation of scientists and engineers. We bring in talented young researchers, team them with accomplished scientists and engineers, and put them to work at the lab’s one-of-a-kind facilities. The result is research that makes us proud and prepares th...
When the second world war ended, the government was left with a new field of science known as nucleonics. Created in Oak Ridge and at the other Manhattan Project sites as they developed the first nuclear weapons, the field was underrepresented in both published literature and college classrooms. ...
It’s been more than three decades since inventor Chuck Hull created stereolithography, a process that produces 3D objects by hardening a liquid resin with an ultraviolet laser beam.
Devices using this process, widely considered the first 3D printers, are still in use today, but they are hardly al...
ORNL is proud of its role in fostering the next generation of scientists and engineers. We bring in talented young researchers, team them with accomplished scientists and engineers, and put them to work at the lab’s one-of-a-kind facilities. The result is research that makes us proud and prepares th...