3-D Printing Might Be a New Future in Navy Ship Construction
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By Courtney Mabeus
Stephen M. Katz, The Virginian-Pilot via The Associated Press
NEWPORT NEWS, Va. (AP) — An arm passes across a plate in the big machine, depositing powdered metal before a laser fuses it all together.
Wipe. Zap. Wipe. Zap.
Hour by hour, and layer by painstaking layer, the machine, a 3D metal printer built by 3D Systems, hums away.
Wipe. Zap. Wipe. Zap.
“This build has over a thousand layers so it’s just slowly making its way through,†Dan Hebert, an engineer at Newport News Shipbuilding said. “It’ll take a little over a day. It runs continuously.â€
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