The Repair, Refurbish, and Return to Service Applied Research Center, or R3S, will develop, certify and implement innovative methods to refurbish and return to service vital military equipment, according to a news release from the school. The center will be utilizing technologies developed at the School of Mines’ Advanced Materials Processing Laboratory, including friction stir (welding without melting), cold spray (accelerating particles to supersonic speed) and laser additive manufacturing (particles injected in laser beams for free-form fabrication), and also developing and certifying new processes and technologies. For the entire article in the Rapid City Journal…. H.F.Webster makes state news
Friction Stir Welding
