QuesTek Innovations LLC

QuesTek Innovations is breaking barriers in space technology and today announced a major milestone: the successful design and delivery of a novel burn-resistant, nickel-based superalloy for Stoke Space’s reusable rocket engines. This breakthrough material was designed using our proprietary ICME (Integrated Computational Materials Engineering) approach, specifically tailored for additive manufacturing and the extreme thermal/mechanical demands of spaceflight. ☑️ Fewer launches wasted; more missions accomplished. Proud to help power the next era of exploration. Read the full story: https://lnkd.in/gp9u7gMN

QuesTek is proud to be a Silver Sponsor of the first annual Aerospace Materials & Manufacturing Summit held virtually on May 13, 2025. FREE Registration includes access to all sessions. Register now: https://lnkd.in/gb2JbrUn During the event, you'll have the opportunity to hear from industry experts from Siemens, GM Defense, TRUMPF, NASA, QuesTek and more. Topics include the current supply chain challenges, the impact of artificial intelligence, the state of 3D printing for aerospace, and the latest development of a digital models ecosystem. 

In case you missed this exciting QuesTek news. Our team is incredibly proud of this accomplishment with partner Stoke Space.

Are you at RAPID + TCT 2025 this week? We'd love to connect with your team. Reach out to Keith Fritz to learn how QuesTek can help with your additive manufacturing materials challenges. Learn about our most recent innovation in AM: https://lnkd.in/gAmABeVM

Will you team be at RAPID + TCT 2025 next week? Connect with Keith Fritz to learn how QuesTek can help you with your additive manufacturing materials challenges. Learn about our most recent innovation in AM: https://lnkd.in/gAmABeVM

QuesTek webinars are recorded - find the catalog and watch here: https://lnkd.in/gucecMRN QuesTek webinars outline the Integrated Computational Materials Engineering (ICME) approach and how it can be used to overcome materials challenges. ICME can accelerate material development, optimize processes, predict material properties and more. The ICMD® materials design and engineering software is showcased throughout our webinars.

Thanks to Metal AM for sharing this great news about our ICMD® platform. This toolkit is a going to change the game for many industries. Schedule a demo of ICMD®: https://lnkd.in/g3ps9qne

Connect with Hariharan Sriram or Kerem Taskin if you're at #TMS2025 tomorrow - we'd love to talk about your materials challenges.

Will you be at the The Minerals, Metals & Materials Society #TMS2025 in Vegas next week? Join Kerem Taskin and Hariharan Sriram for two presentations: March 25, 9:30-9:50AM; Room 318 Microstructure-Sensitive Fatigue Modeling for Additively Manufactured Ti, Al, and Ni Alloys Fatigue of AM components is a major challenge in the adoption of AM across many industries. Developing and qualifying fatigue critical components for use in highly regulated industries like aerospace and biomedical requires manufacturing and testing of a significant number of test coupons. This process is highly time consuming and expensive. QuesTek’s ICMD® modeling software can provide reliable property predictions that can significantly lower the amount of testing required while still yielding a robust material property dataset. QuesTek has developed microstructure-sensitive fatigue models that can account for both intrinsic (grain size, grain morphology, phase fractions, texture) and extrinsic (inclusions, roughness, porosity) features that drive fatigue life in engineering alloys. March 25, 10:40-11:05AM; Room 311 Using ICME to Design a Novel High Strength, Printable, and Burn Resistant Nickel-Based Superalloy for Re-Usable Rocket Engines With the recent progress toward industrialization of space travel, there are more rocket manufacturers than ever, and there is a need for flexible, fast, and supply chain resilient manufacturing paths such as AM. With known tradeoffs between printability, high pressure oxygen burn resistance, and high strength for nickel based super alloys due to a propensity for strain age cracking in precipitation strengthened alloys, the 3 objectives of high strength, printability, and burn resistance result in a complex alloy design scenario. Using the ICMD® platform, QuesTek has developed alloy concepts by co-optimizing these three key properties with physics-based ICME modeling. These alloys have been prototyped and tested, including advanced characterization of nano-scale microstructure to fine tune ICME model calibration to iterate on the alloy design.

We are honored to be named to Fast Company’s Most Innovative Companies of 2025 in the Space category, alongside other space innovators like Rocket Lab, ARIANESPACE and Intuitive Machines! Our work in materials science is helping to shape the future of spaceflight. From developing advanced alloys for reusable rockets to improving efficiency in aerospace manufacturing, we are committed to pushing innovation forward. https://lnkd.in/gGVfNPXR