Saturday, January 2, 2016

3D printed ceramics hold great promise in aerospace industry - Modern Readers

3D printed ceramics hold great promise in aerospace industry - Modern Readers: "Researchers have come up with a new and novel way to leverage 3D printing technology – the ability to create custom ceramics that are far more durable than these objects traditionally are. This ability to make crack-proof ceramics may even hint at some tantalizing potential in the aerospace industry.

“If you go very fast, about ten times speed of sound within the atmosphere, then any vehicle will heat up tremendously because of air friction,” said Tobias Schaedler of Malibu-based HRL Laboratories. “People want to build hypersonic vehicles and you need ceramics for the whole shell of the vehicle.” This could suggest the eventual arfrival of hypersonic planes that could travel from one side of the globe to another in just a couple hours’ time."



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