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Gladstone young gun Annaliese Adamson has her sights set on Queensland hockey selection this year.
She is keen to keep improving her game, which was the motivation for her attending the weekend’s CQ Development Camp run by Astro’s Hockey, a business created by Rockhampton product and high-performance coach Neil Shearer.
More than 70 juniors took part in the two-day camp at Rockhampton’s Kalka Shades. Coaches Christine Woods and Morgan Mathison with Isabelle Jensen, Sophie Jensen, Indy Harmsworth and Sienna Harmsworth.
They got to work with Shearer, Australian under-21 players Morgan Mathison, Jonno Bretherton and Cade Banditt, and accomplished local coaches Aaron Harmsworth and Christine Woods from Rockhampton and Shannon Bobart from Gladstone.
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Engineers at the University of Maryland (UMD) have created a morphing nozzle that provides a new way of controlling fibre alignment during 3D printing.
The morphing nozzle in action, 3D printing fiber-filled composite materials with on-demand control of fiber alignment for 4D printing (Image: UMD)
Fibre-filled composites are made up of short fibres that can enhance properties such as part strength or electrical conductivity. The challenge is that these properties are based on the orientations of the short fibres, which has been difficult to control during the 3D printing process.
“When 3D printing with the morphing nozzle, the power lies on their side actuators, which can be inflated like a balloon to change the shape of the nozzle, and in turn, the orientations of the fibres,” said Ryan Sochol, an assistant professor in mechanical engineering and director of the Bioinspired Advanced Manufacturing (BAM) Laborato
âMorphingâ 3D printer nozzle enables complex new creations 07 Jan 2021
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The morphing nozzle in action, 3D printing fibre-filled composite materials with on-demand control of fibre alignment (Credit: University of Maryland) A new shape-changing 3D printer nozzle could enable complex new creations with unique material properties, its creators have said.
Engineers at the University of Maryland (UMD) created the ‘morphing’ nozzle, which offers new ways of printing fibre-filled composites. The materials are made of short fibres that boost properties over conventional printed parts, such as enhanced strength or electrical conductivity.
The challenge, the researchers said, is that these properties are based on the orientations of the short fibres – something that was previously difficult to control during the printing process.
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Credit: University of Maryland
Engineers at the University of Maryland (UMD) have created a new shape-changing or morphing 3D printing nozzle that was featured as a Frontispiece in the January 5th issue of the journal
Advanced Materials Technologies.
The team s morphing nozzle offers researchers new means for 3D printing fiber-filled composites - materials made up of short fibers that boost special properties over traditional 3D-printed parts, such as enhancing part strength or electrical conductivity. The challenge is that these properties are based on the directions or orientations of the short fibers, which has been difficult to control during the 3D printing process, until now.
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Flock Theatre will be showing Samuel Beckett’s one-man drama Krapp’s Last Tape live online for four nights, Jan. 14-17.
On a “late evening in the future,” Krapp, played by Christie Max Williams, begins his yearly birthday ritual of recording an audio diary of the previous 12 months on his reel-to-reel tape recorder. Before making his recording, however, the 69-year-old Krapp digs out and reviews a tape recorded by a 39-year-old Krapp. The elder Krapp listens, laments, pauses and rewinds portions of the tape, occasionally chuckling along with the younger Krapp s musings on another even younger 29-year old iteration of Krapp. The audience is welcomed into Krapp’s mind as he reviews and responds to the worries and aspirations of his younger selves, and we watch in real time as he realizes what became of those dreams he once had.