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Defense Manufacturing Conference (DMC) & DMSMS 2018 Trip Report

In the first week of December 2018, VEXTEC’s hometown of Nashville, Tennessee played host to the co-located meetings for the Defense Manufacturing Conference (DMC) and the working group for Diminishing Manufacturing Sources and Materials Shortages (DMSMS). These are the premier annual meetings related to the [...]

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Additive Manufacturing ASTM Symposium Trip Report

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 [...]

On the Brink: Materials Science Poised to be the Next Great Digital Transformation

The largest time chunks in any product’s life cycle are in the design and engineering phases. This is because there are questions that need to be answered, both in how the product will perform and how the product itself will be made. Each of these [...]

Grain Size Matters!

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). […]