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Morphing 3D-printed structures from flat to curved—in space

Because it's costly and cumbersome to transport large structures such as satellite dishes into space, aerospace Ph.D. student ...
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Engineers 3D-print flat sheets that transform into curved satellite structures in space

A team led by aerospace Ph.D. student Ivan Wu and his advisor Jeff Baur has developed a low-energy, scalable technique that ...
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3D shapes

A prism is a 3D shape which has a constant cross section - both ends of the solid are the same shape and anywhere you cut parallel to these ends will give you the same shape. For example, in the prism ...