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Team Consisting of Stress Engineering Services, Origin, and nTopology have placed 1st in the USAF F-16 Approval Sprint Challenge for the Inaugural Rapid Sustainment Office Advanced Manufacturing OlympicsSAN FRANCISCO, Oct. 26, 2020 /PRNewswire/ -- Stress Engineering Services, a leader in consulting engineering services and solutions, Origin, the developer of the leading open 3D Printer for additive mass production, and nTopology, an engineering software company building the next generation of engineering design tools for advanced manufacturing announced today the team has taken 1st place in the F-1 Approval Sprint Challenge for the inaugural USAF Rapid Sustainment Office Advanced Manufacturing Olympics. The Advanced Manufacturing Olympics, held last week, is a free, virtual event that included five Technical Challenges that feature additive manufacturing and reverse engineering. The goal of the technical challenge was to identify innovative strategies for rapid design, qualification, and deployment of sustainment solutions which leverage new manufacturing materials, processes, and components. The winning team, which designed, analyzed, tested, and manufactured a multi-material F-16 hydraulic tube clamp, beat out stiff competition from 8 other teams from companies from National Institute for Aviation Research, Stratasys, and Markforged. The requirements for the challenge were quite complex and looked at dimensional accuracy, stresses/loads, flammability compliance, temperature ratings (low and high), jet fuel exposure, vibration tolerance, hydraulic fluid exposure, and engine oil exposure. The part submitted by the team for this challenge was designed on nTopology software, uses Loctite 3955, a flame-retardant chemically resistant material from Henkel, is manufactured on the Origin One 3D printer, and validated by Stress Engineering Services. "We look orward to working with the Airforce Research Laboratory and the Airforce Life Cycle Management Center to build out official Technical Data Package for an increasing amount of 3D printed parts," said Chris Prucha, co-founder and CEO at Origin. Matt Sanders, Stress Engineering Services team leader commented, "We were extremely grateful for the opportunity to participate in this challenge with Origin and nTopology. They are two outstanding companies on the cutting edge of AM technology. Our team was able to find ways to collaborate and be innovative together virtually during this challenging pandemic." "We are honored and humbled by our first-place finish in the Approval Sprint Technical Challenge for the Advanced Manufacturing Olympics," said Dr. Ryan O'Hara, Technical Director Of Aerospace and Defense at nTopology. "Working alongside stellar teams at Origin and Stress Engineering proved to be both easy and rewarding. This is proof that combining all areas of expertise: design, analysis, and manufacturing can lead to unprecedented innovation and product design." Discover how the teams collaborated remotely on the winning part in their upcoming webinar on Tuesday. More details and register here https://ntopolo.gy/a56 About Origin About nTopology About Stress Engineering Services, Inc. Since 1972, Stress Engineering Services, Inc. has been a global leader in consulting engineering services and solutions for a variety of industries. Stress Engineering Services is committed to providing the most comprehensive design, analysis and testing services with an unsurpassed level of engineering integrity and skill. The company's approach to solving challenging technical problems provide proven, quantifiable benefits to its worldwide portfolio of clients. Stress Engineering Services is headquartered in Houston, with offices in Cincinnati. For more information, visit www.stress.com.
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