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Materials thinking – Seat string a few things together for lace car

Posted by Stephen Holmes - October 23, 2014

A lace ‘cover’ of the new Seat city car has us thinking about local production and materials It has no…

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Formlabs announces castable, flexible resins

Posted by Stephen Holmes - October 27, 2014

The new cartable resin should burn out cleanly, without ash or residue, capturing crisp, precise details, and smooth surfaces FormLabs…

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Granta Design to promote its latest software at the Advanced Engineering UK 2014 Show

Posted by Tanya Weaver - October 28, 2014

Granta MI:Materials Gateway enables access to authoritative materials data from within CAD software From 11 to 12 November Birmingham’s NEC…

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A UK engineering team turning waste into plastic wins gold at an international competition

Posted by Tanya Weaver - November 17, 2014

The team of students from Imperial College London whose project uses harmless engineered bacteria to turn landfill waste into bio-plastic…

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Autodesk joins structural and manufacturing simulation tools for composites analysis

Posted by Stephen Holmes - November 21, 2014

Autodesk Simulation Composite Analysis can now interpret Moldflow information and combine it with structural analysis for more realistic simulation results…

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PSA Peugeot Citroën to use materials software Granta MI in its product development processes

Posted by Tanya Weaver - December 12, 2014

PSA Peugeot Citroën will be using the Granta MI system for materials information management during its design process With European…

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New colours and digital materials for Stratasys FDM and Polyjet 3D printers

Posted by Stephen Holmes - February 2, 2015

Stratasys’ FDM ASA material is available in eight new colours Stratasys has expanded its 3D Printing material options, with its…

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MI:Materials Gateway to give further integrated access to materials data

Posted by Stephen Holmes - February 5, 2015

Materials Gateway appears as a pop-up window inside the user’s host system Granta Design has announced the release of Granta…

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MaterialCenter 2015 from MSC gives direct integration into CAE tools

Posted by Stephen Holmes - June 1, 2015

MaterialCentre 2015 offers direct integration into a wide swathe of CAE applications MSC Software has announced its latest release of…

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Testing materials for space with high power 3D cameras

Posted by Stephen Holmes - June 11, 2015

ESA’s Aramis 3D camera system can identify sub-millimetre material strain without touching the part A new video from the European…

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