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Engineer taps into Sandia’s deep knowledge base to design high-reliability component

February 26, 2024 • ALBUQUERQUE, N.M. — Robert Petterborg saw an opportunity to improve a critical part used to test a weapons system. Using his spare time at work and with the help of his Sandia National Laboratories colleagues, he designed a new cable connector that eliminates misalignments…

Categories: Nuclear Weapons, Science / Technology / Engineering

Topics: 3D printing, additive manufacturing, engineering, engineers

New superalloy could cut carbon emissions from power plants

February 16, 2023 • ALBUQUERQUE, N.M. — As the world looks for ways to cut greenhouse gas emissions, researchers from Sandia National Laboratories have shown that a new 3D-printed superalloy could help power plants generate more electricity while producing less carbon.[caption id="attachment_…

Categories: Materials Science

Topics: 3D printing, additive manufacturing, advanced materials, energy, Laboratory Directed Research and Development, LDRD, materials science, power plants

Major upgrade to HOT Shot rocket program culminates in successful launch

September 13, 2021 • ALBUQUERQUE, N.M. — Sandia National Laboratories announced that a major upgrade to the National Nuclear Security Administration’s HOT Shot sounding rocket program culminated in a successful launch on Saturday at the NASA Wallops Flight Facility in Virginia. HOT Shot, short for High Operational Tempo Shot, collects scientific data that benefits...

Categories: Nuclear Weapons, Science / Technology / Engineering

Topics: additive manufacturing, aerospace, NASA, sounding rocket

Sandia’s robotic work cell conducts high-throughput testing ‘in an instant’

June 11, 2018 • ALBUQUERQUE, N.M. — Today with 3D printing you can make almost anything in a matter of hours. However, making sure that part works reliably takes weeks or even months.Until now.[caption id="" align="alignright" width="250"] Sandia National Laboratories materials scientist …

Categories: Materials Science, Science / Technology / Engineering

Topics: 3-D printing, 3D printing, additive manufacturing, LDRD, materials, materials discovery, materials science, prototype testing, robotic work cell, robotics

Brad Boyce watches a yellow commercial robot scan a 3D-printed test part with blue light.

Sandia team designs in a new way for additive manufacturing

May 29, 2018 • ALBUQUERQUE, N.M. — A Sandia National Laboratories team built a telescope to demonstrate how to design for additive manufacturing, familiarly known as 3D printing, to take advantage of the technique’s strengths and weaknesses.[caption id="" align="alignright" width="250"…

Categories: Science / Technology / Engineering

Topics: 3-D printing, additive design, additive manufacturing, structural designers

Sandia National Laboratories project lead Ted Winrow with the telescope he and his team built using advanced manufacturing techniques.

Sandia’s California site invites community to 60th anniversary celebration

May 11, 2016, Media Advisory • LIVERMORE, Calif. –Sixty years ago, the Giants played baseball in New York and the Athletics in Kansas City, Dwight Eisenhower was president and Sandia National Laboratories opened its California site in the city of Livermore, which at the time had a population of under 10…

Categories: Community / Education, Cybersecurity, Energy / Environment / Water, Homeland security, Nuclear Weapons, Technology transfer / Economic Impact

Topics: 60th Anniversary, 60th Anniversary Community Event, additive manufacturing, algae, Altergy, Bankhead Theater, California Fuel Cell Partnership, Combustion Research Facility, cybersecurity, Explosive Destruction System, Fuel Cell Mobile Light, Jill Hruby, Livermore, Marianne Walck, National Security talks, Sandia California, Sandia National Laboratories, SpinDx

Techniques could create better material, design in high-consequence uses

September 23, 2015 • ALBUQUERQUE, N.M. — Imagine a table with sinuous legs resembling the twisting shape of an inverted swamp cypress trunk. Those flowing legs might make the table stronger, better able to handle whatever someone piles on it.[caption id="" align="alignright" width="250"] Topol…

Categories: Science / Technology / Engineering

Topics: 3D printing, additive manufacturing, computer modeling and simulation, design, engineering, high-consequence uses, manufacturing, material properties, materials, national security, topology optimization