{"id":15218,"date":"2026-03-23T08:08:00","date_gmt":"2026-03-23T08:08:00","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/iesinspection.com\/?p=15218"},"modified":"2026-03-23T08:08:00","modified_gmt":"2026-03-23T08:08:00","slug":"navy-installs-first-welded-3d-printed-submarine-component","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/iesinspection.com\/?p=15218","title":{"rendered":"Navy Installs First Welded 3D-Printed Submarine Component"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>KITTERY, Maine \u2013 Portsmouth Naval Shipyard reached a major milestone by inspecting, qualifying, and installing a 3D-printed metal flange aboard USS Washington (SSN 787) in March. The component was successfully welded and placed into service after rigorous evaluation.<\/p>\n<p \/>\n<p>This marks the first time a copper-nickel part produced through additive manufacturing has been welded and used on an operational submarine at a public naval shipyard.<\/p>\n<p>The push to accelerate adoption of additive manufactu&#013;<br \/>\nSource: NDT<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>KITTERY, Maine \u2013 Portsmouth Naval Shipyard reached a major milestone by inspecting, qualifying, and installing a 3D-printed metal flange aboard USS Washington (SSN 787) in March. The component was successfully welded and placed into service after rigorous evaluation. This marks the first time a copper-nickel part produced through additive manufacturing has been welded and used on [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"false","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":[],"categories":[],"tags":[45],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/iesinspection.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/15218"}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/iesinspection.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/iesinspection.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/iesinspection.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/users\/2"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/iesinspection.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcomments&post=15218"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/iesinspection.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/15218\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/iesinspection.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fmedia&parent=15218"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/iesinspection.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcategories&post=15218"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/iesinspection.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Ftags&post=15218"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}