If an object that's composed of two types of material is going to fail, the break will usually occur at the interface where ...

As his 3D printer chirped away building a new barrel shroud for the Printax, Mr. Andersson said his goal was to make the perfect gun. “I’m trying to search for perfection,” he said.

The world’s tallest 3D-printed tower has been unveiled — in a town with a population of 12 By Mary K. Jacob Published June 2, 2025, 12:58 p.m. ET ...

Three-dimensional printing is transforming medical care, letting the health care field shift from mass-produced solutions to customized treatments tailored to each patient’s needs. For instance ...

The printers themselves cost less than $1,500. "3D printing has allowed us to remove cost and logistical barriers that have, in the past limited access to high-quality emergency training in remote ...

3D-printing is gaining momentum for construction purposes, given it’s less time-consuming and has the power to be less costly. In addition to housing, in Japan, a 3D-printed train station was ...

The 3D printer used in this study was a Prusa i3 model, built in house. While not as productive as commercial models, it is cost efficient and allows machine customization. The equipment uses a ...

"Toughness is a limiting factor in not all, but many 3D-printed mechanical metamaterials," says Kevin Turner, Professor and John Henry Towne Department Chair of Mechanical Engineering and Applied ...

The researchers then proceeded to 3D-print cilia, webs, leaf-like structures, and lattices using their proposed approach, and tested the functionalities of the structures in different settings.

Commencing compression test … In a corner of the Large-Scale Structures Laboratory (LSSL) on the University's campus, Petrone and team have been 3D-printing concrete components in the shape of Ls and ...

As with any desktop 3D printer, the Vulcan printer pipes layer by layer to build an object – except this printer is more than 45 feet (13.7 m) wide, weighs 4.75 tons and prints residential homes.