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Podcast Ep. #49 – 9T Labs is Producing High-Performance Composite Materials Through 3D Printing

On March 2, 2021 · In 3D Printing, Composite Materials, Manufacturing, Podcast, Structural Efficiency

Martin Eichenhofer is the CEO & co-founder of 9T Labs, a company that was spun out of ETH Zürich in Switzerland. The company specialises in providing software solutions and manufacturing equipment for producing high-quality and high-performance composite materials using 3D printing.

By marrying the worlds of composite materials and 3D printing, 9T Labs is […]

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Podcast Ep. #27 – A Masterclass on Friction Welding with TWI’s Bertrand Flipo

On March 19, 2019 · In Aerospace Engineering, Manufacturing, Podcast, Structural Efficiency, Technology

In this episode I am speaking to Bertrand Flipo from The Welding Institute in Cambridge, UK. TWI Ltd has a long history of innovation in welding research, having been established as the British Welding Research Association in 1946. TWI Ltd is a world leader in research on friction welding and has been at the […]

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Podcast Ep. #22 – Mark Crouchen on Rockwood Composites and Manufacturing Complex Composite Components

On December 18, 2018 · In Composite Materials, General Aerospace, Manufacturing, Podcast

Mark Crouchen is the managing director of Rockwood Composites, a company in the UK that specialises in manufacturing complex composite components using compression and bladder moulding. These manufacturing processes use fibre mats of carbon fibre, glass fibre, Kevlar, or any other material, which are pre-impregnated with a resin matrix and then placed in a […]

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Podcast Ep. #21 – Prof. Paul Withey on Single-Crystal Superalloys for Jet Engine Turbines

On November 27, 2018 · In Aerospace Engineering, Jet Engines, Manufacturing, Podcast, Propulsion, Superalloys

Paul Withey is the Professor of Casting at the School of Metallurgy and Materials of the University of Birmingham, UK. Before joining the University of Birmingham in 2018, Paul worked at Rolls Royce for 21 years developing new superalloys and manufacturing processes for gas turbine components. As an Engineering Associate Fellow, Paul was a […]

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Composites Manufacturing

On July 12, 2012 · In Composite Materials, Manufacturing

Throughout the last four decades the exploitation of fibre-reinforced plastics (FRP) in engineering structures has been steadily diversifying from sports equipment and high performance racing cars, to helicopters and most recently commercial aeroplanes. Composite materials are essentially a combination of two or more dissimilar materials that are used together […]

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