Fusion News: BBC – Amaze project aims to take 3D printing ‘into metal age’
The Amaze Project bring 28 institutions working together to make new metal components that are cheaper, lighter, and stronger. The purpose is to be able to print three dimensional parts for jets, spacecraft, and even fusion project. As BBC reports in an article titled “Amaze project aims to take 3D printing ‘into metal age’“:
Tungsten alloy components that can withstand temperatures of 3,000C were unveiled at Amaze’s launch on Tuesday at London’s Science Museum.At such extreme temperatures they can survive inside nuclear fusion reactors and on the nozzles of rockets.”We want to build the best quality metal products ever made. Objects you can’t possibly manufacture any other way,” said David Jarvis, Esa’s head of new materials and energy research. “To build a [fusion reactor], like Iter, you somehow have to take the heat of the Sun and put it in a metal box.
