Forging: More than heat and beat Forging is a process in which metal is heated, then hammered or pressed under high pressure to form high-strength parts. This excellent video from How It’s Made shows the steel forging process from the gathering of scrap to final machining.
From somewhere back behind the Iowa State University Icing Research Tunnel, Ames, Rye Waldman called out to see if Hui Hu was ready for a spray of cold water. The wind tunnel was down to 10°F.
Harvest Technologies, Belton, Tex., announced their first design contest in hopes to further promote rapid manufacturing and help grow a 3D printing community online.
The not-for-profit National Center for Manufacturing Sciences (NCMS), Ann Arbor, Mich., partnered with the National Science Foundation (NSF), Arlington, Va., under the National Nanotechnology Initiative (NNI) to conduct its fourth study of trends in nanotechnology and nanofabrication.
Soft robots—which don’t just have soft exteriors but are also powered by fluid flowing through flexible channels—have become a sufficiently popular research topic that they now have their own journal, Soft Robotics.
