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Related: Culture Forums, Support ForumsCan a train be built using 3D printing?
Can 3D printing be used in the building process of a train (especially LRT or subway trains) , or at least 3D print some parts of it?
onehandle
(51,122 posts)Nothing substantial.
3D printing is still in its infancy.
PuffedMica
(1,061 posts)agentS
(1,325 posts)Just need to find a way to get the final product to be strong and rigid (to 'set' like a metal) would.
Ptah
(33,032 posts)struggle4progress
(118,295 posts)stainless steel particles with an optically-polymerized resin, then take the resulting objects and gently somehow replace some of the resin with molten bronze to obtain a stronger material
"It is heatproof to 831C/1528F degrees. Higher temperatures may significantly change material properties."
The melting point of bronze is around 950 °C (1742 °F) while the melting point of stainless steel is around 1510 °C (2750 °F), so the temperature warning suggests that the "printed stainless steel" still consists of discrete stainless steel particles, now somewhat better glued together by being encased in a bronze matrix, but perhaps not always uniformly encased ("Items closer to the bronze infusion start point will absorb more bronze")
I don't know how well the bronze solders the stainless steel particles together: the bronze deposits must be very thin, so if you imagine the bronze matrix alone, it will seem foamy, though in reality the "bubbles" are particles of stainless