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The ASM Thermal Spray Society (TSS) Community website is setting the pace for providing valuable content online. TSS has announced that available content from the Journal of Thermal Spray Technology (JTST) now encompasses the years 1998 through late 2007 – a total of more than 650 articles!
When the ASM Strategic Plan says that “Content is Everything Material,” we mean that ASM must expand its position to become the global resource for quality materials information. Now, ASM is transitioning to become an Information Integrator that will provide useful, highly pedigreed information on materials through the Global Community Information Network.
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Lt. Col. James “Flipper” Kromberg of the U.S. Air Force became the first military service pilot to evaluate the F-35 Lightning II, taking the aircraft through a series of maneuvers Wednesday on its 26th flight.
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Industry News
Japanese Steelmakers to Help China, India Build Plants
AFX News Limited
Japanese steelmakers, including Nippon Steel Corp and JFE Holdings Inc, will team up with the Ministry of Economy, Trade and Industry to help China and India install energy-saving facilities at steel mills. Through their cooperation on technology for reducing greenhouse gases, the steelmakers aim to acquire emissions credits.
Irony: Beams Rolled at Nucor to Frame Sands BethWorks Casino
The Morning Call, Allentown, Pa.
A parade of trucks will soon roll into Bethlehem, Pa., with roughly 10,000 tons of steel, and an equally heavy dose of irony. That's because most of the steel being rushed to the former Bethlehem Steel site to build the $800 million Sands BethWorks casino complex was rolled at Nucor. Sands BethWorks construction officials have said all of the steel will come from domestic mills, and most of it from Nucor.
Turbine Blade Crack May Delay Testing of 2nd F-35 JSF
Fort Worth Star-Telegram
A broken engine part is likely to delay testing on the second F-35 aircraft and could cause further political and budget issues for the Pentagon's largest new weapons program. In a reccurrence of a problem first discovered last summer, a crack has been discovered in an engine turbine blade.
ArcelorMittal Awarded License to Build Egyptian Steel Mill
Business Wire
ArcelorMittal announces that it has been awarded a license from the Industrial Development Authority (IDA) of Egypt's Ministry of Trade and Industry to construct a steel plant in Egypt. The license was auctioned in a competitive bidding process and ArcelorMittal's winning bid was about $60 million.
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News from AM&P
Engineers at the University of Massachusetts Amherst have found that a strong electric field can stabilize the surface of metals and other solids that conduct electricity, inhibiting the formation of cracks caused by stress. This innovation could improve the function and reliability of a wide variety of machines including aircraft, electronic devices and medical transplants.
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ThyssenKrupp Steel and Japan’s second-biggest steel producer JFE Steel Corp. have jointly developed TP-N 68/78, a new multiphase steel for automotive applications. It has a minimum strength of 780 MPa, similar to that of the advanced ultrahigh-strength steels CP-W 800 from ThyssenKrupp Steel and NANO 780 from JFE. It has up to 40% higher elongation than conventional 780 MPa high-strength steel.
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Researchers at Penn State and State University of New York, Fredonia, report that natural gas distributed throughout the Marcellus black shale in northern Appalachia could boost proven U.S. reserves by trillions of cubic feet if gas production companies exploit horizontal drilling techniques.
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University of Illinois researchers have reportedly developed a process for the continuous fabrication of complex, three-dimensional nanoscale structures, and the ability to grow individual nanowires of unlimited length. Based on the rapid evaporation of solvent from simple “inks,” the process has been used to fabricate freestanding nanofibers, stacked arrays of nanofibers, and continuously wound spools of nanowires.
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Ametek Inc. has acquired Newage Testing Instruments, which becomes part of Ametek Measurement & Calibration Technologies (M&CT), a division of Ametek's Electronic Instruments Group. M&CT designs, manufactures, and distributes sensors and sensor-based instruments and calibration systems.
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Materials Innovations in an Emerging Hydrogen Economy
February 24-27, 2008
Hilton Cocoa Beach
Cocoa Beach, Florida USA
This is a new biannual conference that provides an opportunity for global experts in the hydrogen field to discuss materials needs and new technologies related to hydrogen-based alternative energy sources.
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The 8th International Conference on Trends in Welding Research
June 1-6, 2008
Pine Mountain, Georgia USA
This conference will feature five days of technically-intensive programming focused on both fundamental and applied topics related to welding and joining.
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19th AeroMat Conference & Exposition
June 23-26, 2008
Austin Convention Center
Austin, Texas USA
Revolutionizing Materials & Processes for Air Vehicles & Space Systems
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