Wallwork Cambridge, England, has been awarded funding from Innovate UK, the government-backed sponsor of breakthrough technologies, to research the medical applications of its aircraft titanium bearing hardening technology for human implants.
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Ipsen, Cherry Valley, Ill., is to present four papers at the ASM Heat Treat/Gear Expo 2017, Oct. 24-26, in Columbus.
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Linde LLC, Bridgewater, N.J., will detail field results on a new atmosphere mixing technology that can boost unit productivity and improve convection in heat treatment furnaces without the use of fans at Heat Treat 2017 in Columbus, October 24-27.
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Wallwork Cambridge, England, has been awarded funding from Innovate UK, the government-backed sponsor of breakthrough technologies, to research the medical applications of its aircraft titanium bearing hardening technology for human implants.
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Ipsen, Cherry Valley, Ill., is to present four papers at the ASM Heat Treat/Gear Expo 2017, Oct. 24-26, in Pittsburgh.
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Thyssenkrupp, Germany, and Tata Steel, India, have signed a memorandum of understanding to combine their European steel activities in a 50/50 joint venture.
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Seco Vacuum Technologies, Meadville, Pa., the newest company in the Seco Warwick Group of companies, reports a strong initial entry into the North American vacuum heat treating market.
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WITec, Germany, announces that its solution for correlative Raman-SEM imaging is now available for Zeiss Sigma 300, a field emission scanning electron microscope (FE-SEM).
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Semiconductor Research Corporation (SRC), Durham, N.C., is establishing a new $300 million initiative to create a smart, autonomous, safe, connected, efficient, and affordable future through focused, long-term research that goes beyond traditional scaling.
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Synopsys Inc., Mountain View, Calif., announces that Global Foundries has certified the Synopsys design platform for the GF 22nm FD-SOI (22FDX) process, ensuring that designers achieve optimized implementation and predictable signoff results using industry leading digital design tools.
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Following a substantial increase in semiconductor capital expenditures during the first half of this year, IC Insights Inc., Scottsdale, Ariz., raised its annual semiconductor capex forecast to a record high of $80.9 billion for 2017, a 20% increase from $67.3 billion in 2016.
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Bruker, Madison, Wis., and Dectris, Switzerland, announce that they have collaborated to integrate the Dectris Eiger2 R 500K hybrid photon counting pixel detector with the Bruker D8 Advance and the D8 Discover instrument platform to further improve performance for numerous X-ray diffraction applications.
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Chalmers University of Technology, Sweden, announces that its researchers have shown that carbon nanomaterials such as graphene can replace expensive metals such as tin, silver, tungsten, beryllium, and indium in electronic devices.
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Northwestern University, Evanston, Ill., announces that its Materials Research Science and Engineering Center has received a six-year, $15.6 million grant from the National Science Foundation.
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X-ray diffraction analysis indicates that the hardened case consists of a mixture of expanded austenite and expanded martensite.
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Nucor Corp., Charlotte, N.C., announces that its board of directors has approved a new steel bar micro mill project, and also announces that the company is considering five states in the Midwest and Southeast as a location for the project.
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Sensofar Metrology, Barcelona, announces the Five Axis, a new addition to its non-contact 3D surface metrology systems that combines a high-accuracy rotational module and a high-resolution translation platform, together with advanced inspection and analysis capabilities.
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Materialise NV, Belgium, announces that its 3D-printed titanium for maxillofacial surgery has received clearance for the U.S. market, further extending Materialise’s longstanding collaboration with DePuy Synthes, which will distribute the device in the United States.
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Outokumpu Oy, Finland, announces that Finnish liquefied natural gas tank manufacturer LNGTainer has launched a new tank that brings together two innovations – LNGTainer’s game-changing tank container, and Outokumpu’s unique austenitic stainless steel grade, Supra 316plus (EN 1.4420, UNS S31655).
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High-frequency welding is a thermo-mechanical process that relies on precise heat input as well as mechanical control as strip edges are heated and forged together to produce a seam weld.
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Lindberg MPH, Riverside, Mich., has shipped a Temperite box furnace and a Treet-All box furnace to a manufacturer of maritime equipment.
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Tohoku University, Japan, reports that its researchers and colleagues have found an economical way to improve the properties of copper-aluminum-manganese ‘shape memory’ alloys by a unique heat treating method.
Continue readingEngineered components – from bearings to turbine blades and everything in between – acquire much of their value and application readiness during controlled heating and cooling cycles, otherwise known as heat treating. Though practiced for millennia, the process of heat treating has only, in the last century or so, given up its secrets, making it possible for manufacturers to consistently produce steel and nonferrous metal parts with specific properties and predictable lifetime and performance ranges.
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The diagram illustrates an aspirating-type volumetric feeder, in which a continuous circumferential groove in a powder-feed wheel fills with powder by gravity.
Continue readingContent previously published in Metallurgical and Materials Transactions E: Materials for Energy Systems (MMTE) will merge into Metallurgical and Materials Transactions A (MMTA). Accordingly, MMTA has expanded its scope to include materials being developed for or applied to current and emerging energy technologies and energy-related environments. MMTE will cease publication starting immediately, with authors being encouraged to publish their research in MMTA on all aspects of materials science and engineering that impact energy challenges. The last issue of MMTE was published in August 2017, and the journal is no longer accepting new article submissions.
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Diesel engine maker Cummins Inc., Columbus, Ind., is working with Oak Ridge National Laboratory to develop a material to repair heavy-duty vehicle engines damaged by a million miles of extreme conditions under the hood.
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The Fraunhofer Institute for Laser Technology ILT, Germany, has developed a new approach that incorporates a green laser for selective laser melting of copper materials.
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EOS, Germany, introduces StainlessSteel 17-4PH IndustryLine, an iron-based metal alloy powder made by a technology that includes a specially developed process parameter for additive manufacturing on the EOS M 290 metal system.
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Bruker AXS, Billerica, Mass., introduces the D8 Discover Plus X-ray diffraction system, which combines the high power of its TXS-HE high-efficiency Turbo X-ray source, with the reliability and accuracy of its high-endurance Atlas goniometer.
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Spirit AeroSystems, Wichita, Kan., has developed a resin transfer molding (RTM) technology that supports the high-volume production of composite aircraft spoilers and other monolithic components and promises to deliver improved quality and significant cost savings.
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