WEST LAFAYETTE, Ind. – An innovative technique for machining brittle ceramic materials by first softening them with heat from a laser may cut in half the cost of making components for a growing U.S.

The precision machining of aluminum nitride ceramics is quite difficult, mainly influenced by the following factors. Firstly, ...

If we take one of the engineering ceramic materials we have mentioned above in its fully fired or sintered condition i.e. the strongest and hardest form of the material and machine it using a diamond ...

Harvest Precision Components Inc. got help developing the ceramic machining technology from an $84,209 U.S. Small Business Innovation Research grant in 2006. Visiting the company "helps highlight ...

In addition, high hardness after densification makes machining ceramics to shape a major challenge. The high processing energy needed to make a structural ceramic part means that costs can be ...

Eindhoven-based Studio Joachim-Morineau has designed a manufacturing machine that replicates human error, to create ceramics with individual structures, patterns and textures. Carla Joachim and ...

Or the nuts and bolts must ignore high magnetic fields in an MRI machine, for example, where magnetic fields could push and pull metal fasteners. Ceramics are also inert and practically immune to ...

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Ti 5553 boasts qualities similar to today's advanced ceramics, including lightweight, high durability and corrosion resistance, but it is notoriously difficult to machine or fabricate. While Ti-5553 ...

For the 2 hours of hard ceramic machining to finish the case details, Apple would need to go from 20,000 CNC machines, to 250,000. They would need another 200,000 employees to perform the 2 hours ...