Earlier this year, the Air Force Research Laboratory (AFRL) launched its QUalificaiton of Additive Structures for Aerospace Requirements (QUASAR) Program. The intent of this program is twofold: to identify state of the art and current gaps in the qualification and certification (Q&C) activities for additively manufactured (AM) fracture-critical metallic [...]
In additive manufacturing (AM), there are many potential benefits for cost savings, among them being • integration of many conventional components into a single AM build; • complex shapes and orientations; • product volume control (short runs for sustainment vs. longer runs for new production); and • limited post-build [...]
BPMI will utilize VEXTEC's commercial software to integrate materials science and structural modeling for more efficient design and analysis in support of the U.S. Navy FOR IMMEDIATE RELEASE: Brentwood, TN (September 4, 2024) – VEXTEC Corporation was selected by Bechtel Plant Machinery, Inc. (BPMI) to provide its VPS-MICRO Software [...]
FOR IMMEDIATE RELEASE: BRENTWOOD, Tenn., April 28, 2020—VEXTEC® Corporation in Nashville, TN, has been awarded a small business innovative research (SBIR) contract, supported by Aerojet Rocketdyne, to develop an additive manufacturing certification framework for Air Force applications, with the objective of accelerating the qualification and adoption process for new additive [...]
FOR IMMEDIATE RELEASE: BRENTWOOD, Tenn., November 18, 2019 – VEXTEC was selected to be an awardee at the Air Force’s inaugural Technical Executive Officer Pitch Day, held near Wright-Patterson Air Force Base in Dayton, Ohio on November 15, 2019. This marked the second Pitch Day award that VEXTEC garnered [...]
FOR IMMEDIATE RELEASE: BRENTWOOD, Tenn., November 18, 2019 – Last week, VEXTEC was among a shortlisted group of small businesses that participated in the US Air Force’s Open Innovation Pitch Day for Rapid Sustainment. After VEXTEC’s Phase I work demonstrated the feasibility of a virtual [...]
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 [...]
In our last blog on the topic of corrosion, we discussed how corrosion control can be a “headache”, and how controlling corrosion implies controlling the man-made contributors such as corrosion fatigue, which is a very dominant corrosion factor. Nowadays, integrated computational material engineering (ICME) and recent [...]
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 [...]