News Archive
New AM EPSRC Centre Website Online
11th July 2011
The website for the new EPSRC Centre for Innovative Manufacturing in Additive Manufacturing is now online.
Complex Surgery Simulation Project Featured in MWP Magazine
6th July 2011
The latest issue of Centaur's MWP advanced manufacturing magazine focuses on the medical sector, with the AMRG's complex surgery simulation project as the cover story.
The project centres around the development of AM models that replicate the human sinus for surgery training.
MWP advanced manufacturing website »
Online edition of the MWP magazine »
AMRG Researcher Wins FAME Jr. Award
20th June 2011
Candice Majewski has been awarded the 2011 International Outstanding Young Researcher in Freeform and Additive Manufacturing Award, also known as the FAME Junior Award. The award is sponsored by the International Solid Freeform Fabrication Symposium – An Additive Manufacturing Conference, and is given annually to recognize an outstanding young researcher in the field of freeform/additive fabrication early in their career.
£5M EPSRC Grant Awarded to AMRG
18th March 2011
The Engineering and Physical Sciences Research Council has awarded the AMRG a £5million grant to form the 'EPSRC Centre for Innovative Manufacturing in Additive Manufacturing'.
The grant will allow the world-leading research group to expand beyond its current activities, with the acquisition of new equipment and a focus on the application and research of multiple-material systems for AM.
AMRG Researcher Wins 'Best Young Scientist Award'
14th February 2011
Matteo Gatto was awarded the 'Best Young Scientist Award' at the 3rd International Conference on Additive Technologies in Nova Gorica, Slovenia.
The award was for the paper 'Investigating the effectiveness of three-dimensional-printing for producing realistic physical surgical training phantoms', co-authored by Russ Harris, Anshul Sama and Jason Watson.
AMRG Paper in the 'Top 5 Most Downloaded of 2010'
14th February 2011
The paper 'A nanometre-scale fibre-to-matrix interface characterization of an ultrasonically consolidated metal matrix composite' by Ross Friel and Russ Harris was one of the top five most downloaded papers published in the Proceedings of the Institution of Mechanical Engineers, Part L: Journal of Materials: Design and Applications in 2010.
ATKINS Project Wins 'Manufacturing and Process Innovation' Award
8th December 2010
The ATKINS project has won the Engineer magazine's 2010 award for 'manufacturing and process innovation'.
ATKINS is a £2.9-million collaborative research and development project funded by the UK government and a consortium of leading industrial partners comprising Econolyst, Bentley, Alcon, Delphi, Virgin Atlantic, Boeing and MTT.
AMRG Researchers Win 'Outstanding Paper' Award
27th July 2010
Hadi Zarringhalam, Candice Majewski and Neil Hopkinson have been awarded the Rapid Prototyping Journal's Outstanding Paper Award 2010, for their paper 'Degree of Particle Melt in Nylon-12 Selective Laser Sintered Parts'.
The nominator, Prof. Dave Bourell said: "This one is the best stab to date at understanding and predicting the effect of SLS processing on part properties, one of the holy grails of AM"