The advantage of additive manufacturing (AM) (e.g. reasonable time and expense in prototyping, and reliable product) has triggered the idea of using this method in manufacturing of marine vessels components. The current article tries to introduce basic concepts of AM method and its application in marine industry; have a glance at additive-manufactured parts microstructure; elaborate the challen...

Researchers have turned to search for new materials that will meet all the aerospace industry requirements. When it is almost impossible achieve this with a single material, composite been studied, and there great developments in field. Many elements are used aircraft construction, but aluminum most preferred due its low density, good castability, high strength, corrosion resistance, fatigue st...

1 Matti Väänänen, HAMK – University of Applied Sciences, [email protected] Abstract HAMK University of Applied Sciences in cooperation with industry and with public funding is developing a new way to improve the know-how in the area of local metal industry. The whole “package” InnoSteel consists of a group of projects which contain support for product development of innovative companies an...

This paper examines the role that basic research plays in the strategies pursued by industry in their interactions with federal labs. It draws on questionnaire-based data of 229 federal laboratory-industry joint R&D projects with 219 companies and 27 laboratories. The study documents the relative importance of basic research in the success of the interactions by comparing the incidence of basic...

This report presents the results of PRCs waste audit study for the metal finishing industry. The study was conducted to identify opportunities for waste reduction available to the metal finishing industry and to develop a generic audit protocol that can be used by metal finishers to assess their own waste reduction opportunities. The study emphasized technologies available to smalland medium-si...