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Advantages of Adhesive Bonding With Mixed, Lightweight Materials
What do adhesives have to do with lightweighting? A great deal, it turns out. Even though as engineers, we have been trained to question conventional...
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Will 3D Printing & Optimization Revolutionize the Way We Design?
Additive Layer Manufacturing (ALM) has been around for some time.  I got involved with this industry almost 20 years ago when it was called Rapid Prototyping...
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Saving Product Weight Outside the Automotive & Aerospace Industries
This post has been contributed by my colleague, Lars Fredriksson, Director at Altair ProductDesign, Germany When it comes to reducing the weight of...
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solidThinking today announced the latest version of its solidThinking Inspire software, which allows design engineers, product designers and architects to create and investigate structurally efficient concepts quickly and easily. Traditional structural simulations allow engineers to check if a design will support the required loads. Inspire assists this process by generating a new material layout within a package space using the loads as an input. The software is easy to learn and works with...
Quantum Fuel Systems Technologies, manufacturer of alternative fuel systems and clean propulsion vehicle technologies, has announced...
3D Fabrication Technology has announced a new technology that enables the company to perform precise 3D copying of parts. Robust enough...
The first A350 XWB to fly has landed back at Toulouse-Blagnac Airport France at 14.05 hours local time...
Audi has revealed its TT Ultra Quattro concept vehicle which makes use of a range of technologies to...