ELLSWORTH AIR FORCE BASE, S.D. — Ellsworth's fleet of four-engine, swing-wing B-1 bombers continues to age, but a cutting-edge repair process may prove to be its fountain of youth. Cold spray, a ...

Electronic devices, including those in telecommunications and high-power systems, generate heat during normal operation. That heat must be dissipated to avoid junction temperatures exceeding tolerable ...

Sierra Army Depot’s (SIAD) Metal Fabrication branch completed operator training on January 16, 2025, with their new VRC Dragonfly cold spray unit. This advanced capability enables Sierra to repair ...

Cold spray coating is a solid‐state deposition process in which fine powders are accelerated to high velocities and directed onto substrates, forming dense, adherent coatings without melting the ...

An international team of researchers has solved a puzzling phenomenon whereby strangely beautiful, vortex-like structures appear between materials deposited onto engineering components used in ...

Ellsworth Air Force Base now has a quicker and more cost-effective way to repair panels on B-1s. It’s called cold spray technology. “We take fine metallic powder and we ramp it up with really high ...

An Army M2 Bradley Fighting Vehicle belonging to 1st Engineer Battalion, 1st Armored Brigade Combat Team, 1st Infantry Division stages out on a breaching range near Camp Trzebień, Poland, May 23, 2019 ...

The Air Force Research Laboratory Materials and Manufacturing Directorate recently completed an extensive effort to help certify a maintenance process that could extend the life of aircraft hydraulic ...

Nissan Motor Company has revealed that it has adopted cold spray technology in the production of valve seats, claiming to be the first company to use the process in automotive engines. The Japanese ...

WASHINGTON, June 09, 2023 (GLOBE NEWSWIRE) -- Global Cold Spray Technology Market is valued at USD 1.2 Billion in 2022 and is projected to reach a value of USD 1.8 Billion by 2030 at a CAGR (Compound ...