Researchers Create World's First 3D-Printed Jet Engines

The people at Deakin University, CSIRO (Commonwealth Scientific and Industrial Research Organisation), and researchers from Australia's Monash University have created the world's first 3D-printed jet engine. Led by Prof. Xinhua Wu, the team using an old gas turbine engine contributed by Microturbo (Safran), they took the engine apart, and scan all the individual components. Using computer models obtained from those scans, a laser was then utilized to selectively melt metal alloy powder, building up two copies of each component in successive layers. When those parts were subsequently assembled, two metal replicas of the original engine were produced. The project took a year to complete, and received funding from multiple groups including the Australian Research Council. 

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