According to leading industry sources listed in ManufacturingTalk.com, friction welding has become widely accepted as a competitive and effective process and a valid, proven alternative to complex ...

Artificial Intelligence, or AI, promises many benefits in all domains, and rocketry is no different. The European Space ...

A leading manufacturer of chemical pumps needed to reduce costs and increase machining capacity without compromising corrosive resistance of part or part integrity. Utilizing The Friction Welding ...

Moog Inc., East Aurora, N.Y., and Thompson Friction Welding, Clinton Township, Mich., recently teamed up to develop the world’s largest linear friction welding machine. The new machine is capable of ...

Engineers at The University of Strathclyde’s Advanced Forming Research Centre (AFRC) are exploring the use of rotary friction welding to help reduce materials wastage and production time. Rotary ...

A spinning tool plunges into two pieces of metal, rotating at a high rate of speed. As the tool begins to move, it softens and mixes the metal, creating a powerful weld—one that can securely join ...

Borrowing heavily from the principals set forth by Lipson and Kurman, my process engineering background, recent book research 2, and with a bit of tongue in cheek, I put together my list of 11 Myths ...

Wire-Arc Additive Manufacturing (WAAM) is the metal additive manufacturing method with the highest deposition rate and can be used to manufacture the largest fabricated structures of any metal ...

CFM International (H4/B13, chalet A23-24) will produce parts for the Leap-X family of engines for narrowbody aircraft based on an additive manufacturing process developed at GE's Global Research ...