ASTM’s Symposium on Structural Integrity of Additive Manufactured (AM) Parts was held in the first week of November in Washington, DC. Being part of ASTM’s Committee Week, the symposium was sponsored by a number of ASTM Committees (F42 – Additive Manufacturing Technologies; E08 – Fatigue [...]
In Part I of this blog series, we give a brief history of Additive Manufacturing (AM), as well as some of the obstacles that are still holding AM back. Everyone is excited about the potential of this technology, but it’s quite a different thing to have sufficient confidence in [...]
Read Part II of Blog Series The history of customization is as ancient as the history of design. And there are three principles that have governed the need for customization – form, fit and function. Intimately intertwined with this quest for customization is the [...]
Watch our recent presentation on "Computational Modeling of Complex Systems using Integrated Computational Materials Engineering (ICME)" given at this year's Simulia fe-safe User Group Meeting:
This is the first installment of a new blog series on the physics of fatigue. It has been adapted from the upcoming Ph.D. dissertation of VEXTEC’s Robert McDaniels. Fatigue can best be considered as a process, rather than an event [1, 2]. The fatigue process [...]
A turbocharger client of ours wanted to improve durability and reduce warranty costs on cast wheels made from a nickel superalloy with a radially-solidified (RS) microstructure. A significant portion of their previous field failures had been attributed to high cycle fatigue (HCF). […]
Visit VEXTEC’s Learning Center for Example Applications This is the final installment of a four-part series on the history of fatigue analysis. It has been adapted from the upcoming Ph.D. dissertation of VEXTEC’s Robert McDaniels. You can read Part 1 here, Part 2 [...]
Read Part IV in Blog Series This is the third of a four-part series on the history of fatigue analysis. It has been adapted from the upcoming Ph.D. dissertation of VEXTEC’s Robert McDaniels. You can read Part 1 here, Part 2 here, and [...]
Read Part III in Blog Series This is the second of a four-part series on the history of fatigue analysis. It has been adapted from the upcoming Ph.D. dissertation of VEXTEC’s Robert McDaniels. You can read Part 1 here, and Part 3 here. While [...]
Read Part II of Series This is the first of a four-part series on the history of fatigue analysis. It has been adapted from the upcoming Ph.D. dissertation of VEXTEC’s Robert McDaniels. You can read Part 2 here. Isaac Newton wrote to Robert [...]