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Episode 67: Additive Manufacturing at General Electric

Materialism: A Materials Science Podcast

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The Importance of Trial and Error in Metal Manufacturing

On the metal side is complexity more or less accessible there? I'd say it's very similar to the ceramic side. These machines are capable of printing very complex shapes. When you're working with metal additive, just part development itself can sometimes take years. And so we've had to not just figure out how to simulate the stress generation in that part, but then also figure outHow to pre-distort the part so that it warps into its correct shape.

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