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Finishing/polishing protocols influenced the 3Y-TZP surface integrity, whereas its flexural strength remained unaffected, even after thermocycling aging. Although laboratory glazing remained the most…

Research on wrist-hand orthoses printed in FDM and thermoformed to shape found PETG held up better than PLA in flexural testing and kept its properties after a year of humidity. ModulVolt3D used glass-fibre PETG for a blade carrier on a MOVA robotic mower, while Goslo Studio used translucent PETG for its ALN table lamps. https://www.3dnatives.com/en/petg-filaments-3d-printing-applications-02112026/ #3Dprint #3Dprinting #Materials

The Laminar Composites Market was valued at US$ 1.52 billion in 2025 and is expected to reach US$ 2.92 billion by 2034; it is estimated to record a CAGR of 7.52% during 2026–2034. Laminar composites—consisting of bonded layers of fiber-reinforced polymers, metallic foils, or ceramic laminates engineered to deliver high strength-to-weight ratios, flexural rigidity, directional reinforcement, and fatigue resistance—serve as advanced structural materials across aerospace, defense, automotive, wind energy, and marine manufacturing sectors.

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New research shows that seawater exposure during curing can dramatically improve the flexural performance of polyethylene fiber-reinforced mortar, but only at the right fiber dosage and exposure

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A novel hybrid acousto-mechanical system demonstrates the highest-to-date coupling between a high-overtone bulk acoustic wave resonator and low-frequency flexural modes in a suspended silicon nitride ...

Chinese researchers tested thin-plate glued laminated bamboo (glubam) assemblies for use in floating PV platforms, assessing their flexural behavior under different plate and bolt configurations.

Flexural modulus and tensile modulus both describe stiffness, but they do not measure stiffness under the same loading condition. Tensile modulus describes resistance to elastic stretching during an axial pull, while flexural modulus describes resistance to elastic bending. For an ideal homogeneous, isotropic, linear-elastic material the two can be close, but plastics and especially FFF-printed parts can produce noticeably different values because bending, tension, compression, print orientation, specimen structure, and test procedure do not affect them in the same way.

A recent study in Scientific Reports by Raghuvesh Tiwari and colleagues shows that replacing up to 10% of cement with faecal sludge-derived biochar increases 91-day concrete compressive strength by 21% and flexural strength by 42%, while effectively trapping heavy metals.