Goodyear’s Blimp Build

Watch the new Goodyear blimp being built A new Goodyear blimp is being built inside the Wingfoot Lake hangar in Suffield, Ohio. Longerons and cross sections are made of aluminum and composite materials. These are the pieces that make up the frame. Ballonets are inflatable airbags within the structure that maintain pressure and affect trim […]

How It’s Made Steel Forgings

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.

3D Printing Design Contest

Harvest Technologies, Belton, Tex., announced their first design contest in hopes to further promote rapid manufacturing and help grow a 3D printing community online.

Last call for 2014 U.S. nanotechnology survey

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.