Wednesday, September 17, 2014
Monday, August 11, 2014
Watching This Machine Fabricate Tiny Screws Makes Me Nervous
Watching This Machine Fabricate Tiny Screws Makes Me Nervous
Those itty bitty screws that hold together your watch (or possibly your smartwatch) are infinitely frustrating to grasp, position, and attach to said watch. Now imagine the precision required to make one of those screws. Seeing the process captured …
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From the Archives: The Saving of President Ronald Reagan
And more than once the thought skittered across the mind: My God, this is the President—I"d better not screw up. For some, it caused a …. There, thanks to a computerized X-ray technique called tomography, doctors would see the precise extent and …
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Watching This Machine Fabricate Tiny Screws Makes Me Nervous
Thursday, July 31, 2014
Ultrasonic machining process makes light work of composites
Ultrasonic machining process makes light work of composites
The device creates ultrasonic vibrations at anywhere between 20 kHz and 39 kHz, and the machining technique makes the composite material sufficiently "soft" in the area being worked on that much less force is needed from the cutting tool, resulting in …
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Revolutionary device makes machining composites as easy as "cutting through …
The tool makes working on difficult-to-cut materials like aerospace-grade composites so easy it is like "cutting through butter". It involves a technique called ultrasonically-assisted machining (UAM), which uses a specially designed piezoelectric …
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Ultrasonic machining process makes light work of composites