{"id":119549,"date":"2021-02-14T00:22:28","date_gmt":"2021-02-14T08:22:28","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog\/2021\/02\/us-navy-research-lab-engineers-3d-print-functional-lightweight-cylindrical-antenna-arrays"},"modified":"2021-02-14T00:22:28","modified_gmt":"2021-02-14T08:22:28","slug":"us-navy-research-lab-engineers-3d-print-functional-lightweight-cylindrical-antenna-arrays","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog\/2021\/02\/us-navy-research-lab-engineers-3d-print-functional-lightweight-cylindrical-antenna-arrays","title":{"rendered":"US Navy Research Lab engineers 3D print functional lightweight cylindrical antenna arrays"},"content":{"rendered":"<p><a class=\"aligncenter blog-photo\" href=\"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog.images\/us-navy-research-lab-engineers-3d-print-functional-lightweight-cylindrical-antenna-arrays3.jpg\"><\/a><\/p>\n<p>Engineers at the <a href=\"https:\/\/www.nrl.navy.mil\/\">US Navy Research Laboratory<\/a> (NRL) have deployed a 3D printer to fabricate optimized antenna components that could be key to advancing the <a href=\"https:\/\/www.navy.mil\/\">US Navy\u2019s<\/a> radar monitoring capabilities.<\/p>\n<p>Utilizing 3D printing, the engineers were able to create cylindrical arrays at a lower cost and with reduced lead times compared to those incurred using conventional specialized equipment. The resulting parts also proved to be significantly lighter than previous iterations, potentially lending them new end-use navigational or defense applications.<\/p>\n<p>\u201c3D printing is a way to produce rapid prototypes and get through multiple design iterations very quickly, with minimal cost,\u201d said NRL electrical engineer Anna Stumme. \u201cThe light weight of the printed parts also allows us to take technology to new applications, where the heavy weight of solid metal parts used to restrict us.\u201d<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Engineers at the US Navy Research Laboratory (NRL) have deployed a 3D printer to fabricate optimized antenna components that could be key to advancing the US Navy\u2019s radar monitoring capabilities. Utilizing 3D printing, the engineers were able to create cylindrical arrays at a lower cost and with reduced lead times compared to those incurred using [\u2026]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":427,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[1489,9],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-119549","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-3d-printing","category-military"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/119549","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/427"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=119549"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/119549\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=119549"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=119549"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=119549"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}