This is part of an ongoing series of articles on materials selection authored by Eric Larson, a mechanical engineer with 30 years of experience in plastics design, for PlasticsToday. His most recent ...

CNC machining is a cost-effective production method when implemented effectively. Ensuring that CNC machining is cost-effective, that it allows operation the best opportunity to meet its fullest ...

This article is aimed at large scale 3D printing. For medium and desktop size printing, both thermoplastic materials and thermoset materials are used. While for large format additive manufacturing ...

The Design Advisor software enables vehicle design decision makers to precisely and accurately study material selection tradeoffs in terms of cost, mass and greenhouse gas emission savings. Dr Don ...

Understanding materials, their properties and behavior is fundamental to engineering design, and a key application of materials science. Written for all students of engineering, materials science and ...

As tests at GSK have shown, integrating powder testing into overall operations can optimize process understanding, and with it, raw material selection, equipment design, and process development. As ...