By Geoff Giordano With roughly 50 percent of the audience attending for the first time, LIA’s seventh Laser Additive Manufacturing (LAM®) Workshop fueled enthusiasm for laser-based 3D printing processes with a robust, real-world view of the state of the technology.
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GE Aviation Vision for Additive Manufacturing
By Todd Rockstroh GE Aviation (GEA) has launched production of their first additively manufactured engine component, the fuel nozzle for the LEAP gas turbine (Fig.1). This part will see combustion flame and gas temperatures and highly stressed thermal cycles. There are 19 per engine and the LEAP volume will require over 45,000 fuel circuits to […]