Researchers at Monash University, in Melbourne, Australia have teamed with individuals from Deakin University and CSIRO to 3D print two jet engines. They used a Concept Laser X line 1000R 3D and based their design off an auxiliary powered gas turbine engine. Read the full article here.
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Are you having trouble thinking about how your students could use the 3D printer? Here’s an interesting idea from a professor out at Iowa State University: printing fossils, thinking 3D, and printing rock types. Read the full article for how Franek Hasiuk, a geologist at Iowa State University and proprietor of the GeoFabLab, is transforming his…
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Hydraulic fracturing, or “fracking”, is the process of drilling and injecting fluid into the ground at a high pressure in order to fracture shale rocks to release natural gas inside. Geologists are reproducing the microscopic, intricate pore networks of rocks in scaled up 3D-printed models. “3D printing lets geology have lab rats,” said Franek Hasiuk, a…
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