WVU Engineers Receive R & D 100 Award
The R & D 100 award was received by Professor Xingbo Liu,
Professor Xingbo Liu.
associate dean for research and chair of engineering at the West Virginia University( WVU) Benjamin M. Statler College of Engineering and Mineral
Resources, and colleagues in the Department of Mechanical, Materials and Aerospace Engineering. The awards event, known as the Oscars of Innovation, honors the top 100 proven technological advances of the past year as determined by a panel selected by R & D World magazine.
Liu and his team led the development of SAM-J, supported by over $ 6 million in funding from the U. S. Department of Energy and in partnership with collaborators including Oak Ridge National Laboratory( ORNL), GE Vernova, University of Nebraska- Lincoln( UNL) and Carpenter Additive.
Already patented and licensed by GE Vernova for use in the company’ s new turbine systems, SAM-J will enable industries from energy to aerospace to use three-dimensional( 3D) printing to weld together metals to ensure the joints can withstand extreme stress.
“ SAM-J stands for solid-state additively manufactured transition joints,” Liu says.“ It’ s a significant advancement in joining science and a solution
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