Five Quick Steps Toward Better Blending Rising costs of resins and additives, along with higher demands for quality and use of regrind, place a premium on proficient blending. Here are some steps to get you there. Read More best practices23 Oct 2023 ...
When working with thermoplastics, be it through injection molding or 3D printing, the thermal expansion of the material must be taken into account to obtain the desired shape after the part has cooled down. To prevent thermal phenomena such as hoop shrinkage, curling, and warping, which are maj...
silicone, or rubber parts. It is a cost-effective and extremely repeatable technology that yields high-quality parts for large series production. With this process, the developed mold is inserted into the injection molding machine, then heated thermoplastics or the liquefied raw material are poured ...
Thermoplastics with flame-retardant properties are increasingly deployed in battery packs.Image courtesy of Sabic China's Ministry of Industry and Information Technology has unveiled plans for a new national standard mandating energy efficiency of electric vehicles (EVs). For models with fewer...
FDM machines produce parts by extruding a thermoplastic material onto a build plate one layer at a time, from low-cost PLA or ABS for prototyping to industrial aerospace parts made from high-strength thermoplastics like Nylon and Ultem. Typically, small parts are limited by extrusion spot size ...
In short, what we have in Nomex is a man-made textile whose ring-like monomers are bonded together into tough, long chains to make immensely strong fibers. Break Nomex up and sort it into its atoms and you'd have four neat piles of carbon hydrogen, oxygen, and nitrogen....
(in the way they behave toward heat, light, and so on). It's hardly surprising that 3D printers use thermoplastics (plastics that melt when you heat them and turn solid when you cool them back down), and typically either ABS (acrylonitrile butadiene styrene), PLA (polylactic acid), or ...
and almost always some kind of camera system. Then, we have a modular system of moulded carbon fibre, 3D-printed thermoplastics and insulative foam that allows us to easily integrate whatever components we need for a particular project: high-end cameras, electronic and mechanical parts, client pr...
Modern AM machines can produce end-use quality production parts in materials such as thermoplastics, polyamides, polystyrenes, composites, and metals; even combinations of materials in a single part. Modern software tools such as Generative Design and Topology Optimization ...
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