What Happened
Breakthrough Enables Printing with Lower Laser Power
Researchers at Washington State University used artificial intelligence to identify a faster and less costly way to 3D-print a high-performance NASA alloy, GRCop-42. The team developed a method that could estimate the likelihood of successful printing configurations, and after only 40 experiments, they found six successful configurations, including one that worked at a record-low 500 watts. This breakthrough could make the alloy, which is widely used in aerospace applications, printable on more common commercial equipment. The research was published in the Proceedings of the AAAI Conference on Artificial Intelligence, as reported by ScienceDaily.