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ORNL 3D prints DesignMiami pavilions
Artfully exploring bioderived composites
New York-based SHoP Architects engaged Oak Ridge National Laboratory to 3D print large-scale components for two pavilions to be installed on the plaza outside the DesignMiami exposition in Florida. Researchers at the lab expect the project undertaken this fall will offer valuable insight into the use of bioderived material to create large structures.
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3D Printed Magnets Outperform Traditional
Findings now available online
Researchers at ORNL have demonstrated that permanent magnets produced by additive manufacturing can outperform bonded magnets made using traditional techniques while conserving critical materials. Scientists fabricated neodymium-iron-boron bonded magnets at DOE’s Manufacturing Demonstration Facility at ORNL using the BAAM machine. The result, published in Scientific Reports, was a product with comparable or better magnetic, mechanical, and microstructural properties than bonded magnets made using traditional injection molding with the same composition.
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ORNL and Harper International Partner on Carbon Fiber Project
Focus on analysis and processing as part of HPC4Mfg Program
Harper International, world leader in custom thermal processing solutions for advanced materials, announced that in partnership with Oak Ridge National Laboratory (ORNL) they have been awarded funding for a project through the U.S. Department of Energy Advanced Manufacturing Office’s HPC4Mfg Program. The Program was designed to spur the use of high performance supercomputers to advance U.S. manufacturing via public-private partnerships.
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ORNL- UT Governor’s Chair Named Composites Person of the Year
Society of Plastics Engineers Recognizes Uday Vaidya
The Society of Plastics Engineers recently named Vaidya as their 2016 Composites Person of the Year at their annual Automotive Composites Conference and Exhibition. Vaidya plays a key role in the ORNL-UT partnership, both as the Governor’s Chair for Advanced Composites Manufacturing and through his ties to the Institute for Advanced Composites Manufacturing Innovation.
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LeMond Composites Marks Opening in Oak Ridge
Production of Commercial Carbon Fiber Based on ORNL License
The company, founded by three-time Tour de France winner Greg LeMond, has a licensing agreement with the Oak Ridge National Laboratory to manufacture industry-changing high-volume, low-cost carbon fiber. The revolutionary process, invented at ORNL has global applications in myriad markets, including transportation, renewable energy and infrastructure construction.
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