How can cars be designed to be more attractive, more environmentally friendly, more efficient, and safer? These are questions that Evonik Industries has answers to. The car of the future doesn’t yet fly—but its lightweight construction owes something to aircraft design anyway. The rear spoiler of a RED...

A wide variety of advanced materials-related topics are the basis for graduate research at Colorado State University's Motorsport Engineering program. Topics range from evaluation of composite structures, like the carbon fiber monocoque, to investigations into new materials and applications for motorsport...

Rapid Prototyping (RP) – technology allows 3D-printing of arbitrarily shaped structures, directly from computer-aided design (CAD) data. It has traditionally been used to produce only passive mechanical parts. A team at Cornell University has developed compact, automatic Solid-Freeform Fabrication...

Imagine owning a machine, about the size of your desktop printer that, at the touch of a button, will churn out three dimensional, completely functional products such as cell phones, shoes, even food and prosthetic limbs. Evan Malone, a Ph.D. candidate working in Cornell University's Computational...

Even in resistors, there are new specialty technologies that allow manufacturers to distinguish themselves. New designs and packages include heat transfer surfaces and think film resistive inks in non-inductive patterns. [Video]

Injection machines use gravity feed and augurs to force material into the cavity of the mold and then use robotics to move parts through the process that is almost automatic and monitors key quality assurance variables.[Video]

Mixing the plastic and the powder is a key factor in the overall technology of creating molded parts and is really where the flexibility and creativity of ensuring the engineered part matches the specifications of the customer. [Video]

In the final stages of the metal injection molding process, hydrogen torches impart the right qualities to molded parts and protect the molybdenum heating elements from oxygen and deterioration.[Video]

The process of metal injection molding involves several variables including shrinkage of the parts in the furnace from the plastic content of the compounds used. Today, we'll look at some of those variables from NetShape Technologies.[Video]

The powders and materials of metal injection molding are an important aspect to getting part within customer specifications. Very small parts can be produced using the process at NetShape Technologies in Solon, Ohio. [Video]