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Volume 8, Issue 2, Wednesday, January 16, 2008 

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News from ASM

ASM Award Nominations Due February 1, 2008

View a video of 2007 Honorary Membership Awardee Ash Khare accepting award.

Help ASM recognize achievements of individuals and organizations that contribute to materials science and engineering. Nominations for all of ASM's awards are currently being accepted and we are looking for qualified candidates for Honorary Membership, Medal for the Advancement of Research, William Hunt Eisenman Award, and the Bradley Stoughton Award.

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2008 Graduate Student
Paper Contest

Deadline April 1, 2008

The ASM International Graduate Student Paper Contest recognizes the best graduate student technical paper in the field of materials science or engineering submitted during the year The award consists of a certificate, a $500 cash prize, and up to $250 towards expenses to attend MS&T ’08. Rules for the paper submission can be found on the ASM Website.

Aluminum Landscape

Although this looks like a landscape from an alien world, it actually shows the grain structure of continuously cast aluminum 3004. It won first place in the Artistic category in the 2007 International Metallographic Society Metallography Contest. It is one of the images highlighted in the “Miniature Masterpieces” article in the February issue of Advanced Materials & Processes. The image was made by
Elena Saez of Novelis.

A Member’s Voice

Progress in Lifelong Learning and Education:
Taking Action To Improve Course Materials

The volunteer leadership for ASM’s Lifelong Learning and Education programs resides with the ASM Education Committee, one of our largest and most active groups. Based on the direction set by ASM’s Strategic Plan, one of our most important actions has been to review and update our course materials, some of which go back to 1968.

The first courses to be reviewed are the most popular: Metallurgy for the Non-Metallurgist, Metallographic Techniques, Elements of Metallurgy, Heat Treatment of Steel, Practical Heat Treating, Metallurgy of Welding and Joining, and Corrosion.

For details about how the committee is updating these courses and more, please click here.

Video of the Week


Watch NASA’s Moon
Chariot In Action



In preparation for the U.S.-led effort to build a lunar outpost, NASA has completed the first lunar truck prototype, named Chariot. The vehicle is designed to meet the payload transport, range, terrain and speed specifications defined by NASA’s Lunar Architecture Team. This video shows the Chariot climbing a simulated lunar hill. For more videos and information about the program, click here.

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Industry News


ASM publishes breaking industry news articles on our website every day!

Below are the top news items of the week.
View the full-text articles and more headline news online.


Partnership to Develop Molten-Salt Storage of Solar Energy
Associated Press
Hamilton Sundstrand, a subsidiary of United Technologies Corp., is developing a way to use molten salt to store solar energy that could produce enough electricity to power 250,000 to 500,000 homes a year.

Ceradyne Lands Five-Year, $400 Million Body Armor Order
Business Wire
Ceradyne, Inc. has been awarded a five-year order from the United States Special Operations Command for the family of Ballistic Plates for Body Armor Load Carriage System USSOCOM). The order is estimated to have a maximum value in excess of $400 million.

New Aqua-Quench 4000 Series Quenchants Give Manufacturers Greater Flexibility for Heat Treating Steel Products
Houghton International Inc.
The Aqua-Quench 4000 series, the latest aqueous quenchants from Houghton International Inc., widens the range of steel products that can be successfully heat treated using polymer-based technology.

NCEM's In Situ Microscope Reveals Why 'Smaller Is Stronger'
AScribe Newswire
Lawrence Berkeley National Labs researchers have observed that dislocations in the microstructure of nanoscale nickel pillars during deformation are eliminated during compression, resulting in a perfect crystal. The videotaped images from the electron microscope helped the researchers understand why pillars are so strong.

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News from AM&P


The National Institute of Standards and Technology has developed an atomic force microscope to which they have added software and electronics that transform the microscope’s normal topographical maps of surfaces into precise two-dimensional representations of mechanical properties near the surface.
Learn more.


A team of scientists from the Georgia Tech Research Institute and the Naval Surface Warfare Center, have developed highly uniform nanometer and micron size copper structures that will be incorporated into integrated circuits, then chemically converted to millimeter-diameter explosives.
Contact Jason Nadler.


Sandvik Materials Technology introduces Sandvik Sanicro 25, for high-efficiency pulverized coal fired steam boilers destined for the next generation of power stations. This allows an increase in operational efficiency of up to 50% (which should be compared to today’s 35 to 45%).
Learn more.


DSM Engineering Plastics reports that next-generation Stanyl polyamide grades extend the functional life of components well beyond the limits of other high-temperature polyamides. By limiting thermal oxidative breakdown, Stanyl Diablo withstands more than 3000 hours temperature exposure up to 230°C (450°F) with less than 15% loss in mechanical properties.
Learn more.


The Metal Powder Industries Federation announces the new Kempton H. Roll PM Lifetime Achievement Award, which will serve as MPIF's highest-level individual award. It will be presented every four years to one individual beginning at the PM2008 World Congress in Washington. The international powder metallurgy community is invited to submit names for consideration by February 1, 2008.
Learn more.

 

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Surface Engineering for AeroSpace and Defense

January 21-22, 2008
Coronado Springs Hotel
Walt Disney World
Orlando, Florida USA

The National Association for Surface Finishers, in conjunction with ASM International is hosting this event to address current issues facing surface engineering professionals in a wide variety of disciplines today as well as providing information and opportunities to meet the challenges of tomorrow.

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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 2-6, 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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Latest Job Opening

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The successful candidate will perform simulations for casting processes, which include continuous casting, ingot casting, VIM, ESR, and VAR. Assignments will include modeling of these processes using commercial CFD codes and conducting planned experiments for model validation.

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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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