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One Minute Mentor: Residual Stress Profiles

Residual stress profiles of nitrided austenitic AISI 316 are shown in the graph.

Metalysis signs joint R&D program to develop aluminum-scandium powder alloy

Metalysis, England, has signed a joint research and development program with an international partner to co-create high-value aluminum-scandium alloys.

Lockheed Martin awards $1 million to Denver university for additive manufacturing lab

Lockheed Martin, Denver, announces that it will award a $1 million grant to the Metropolitan State University of Denver to establish an on-campus Lockheed Martin Additive Manufacturing Laboratory, where students will have access to a state-of-the-art AM system on which to design and create aerospace components.

Lindberg MPH box furnace can provide six different heat treating atmospheres

Lindberg MPH, Riverside, Mich., has shipped an electrically heated rod over-bend atmosphere box furnace capable of providing six different atmospheres, to a company in the steel and mining industry.

Wisconsin Oven enhanced-duty walk-in ovens will dry sand cores for casting in two hours

Wisconsin Oven Corp., East Troy, Wis., has shipped two natural-gas-fired enhanced-duty walk-in batch ovens that are designed to dry the sand cores used in the casting of a variety of parts.

Heat Treating Society member Steve Ferdon earns CHTE Distinguished Service Award

The Center for Heat Treating Excellence at the Worcester Polytechnic Institute, Mass., announces that it has presented its Distinguished Service Award to Steve Ferdon.

Can-Eng Furnaces awarded contract for austenitizing and molten salt quenching system

Can-Eng Furnaces International Ltd., Niagara Falls, Ontario, has been awarded a contract to design and build a 1500 lb/hr mesh belt furnace system for the austenitizing and molten salt quenching of unique components for world-class drivetrain systems.

Sandia X-ray phase contrast imaging sees foams and epoxies within layers of metal

Sandia National Laboratories, Albuquerque, N.M., has borrowed and refined X-ray phase contrast imaging, originally developed for medical X-rays, to look inside low-density materials without taking them apart.

High-strength magnesium sheet with high formability features low-cost alloying metals

Japan’s National Institute for Materials Science and Nagaoka University of Technology announce development of a high-strength magnesium sheet alloy that has excellent formability comparable to that of the aluminum sheet currently used in body panels of some automobiles.

Ipsen invests $1 million in heat-treat industry by offering $50,000 credits for Titan furnaces

Ipsen, Cherry Valley, Ill., announces that it will offer a $50,000 credit toward the purchase of a new Titan vacuum furnace (applies to the 2017 list price of any Titan model) to any company that trades in its old furnace.

MTS Systems opens India headquarters to improve collaboration with customers

MTS Systems Corp., Eden Prairie, Minn., has strengthened its position in India by establishing the MTS India headquarters in Bangalore.

Semiconductor chip made of a million RRAM cells, two million carbon nanotube FETs

Stanford University, California, and the Massachusetts Institute of Technology, Cambridge, announce that researchers have developed a new semiconductor chip made of carbon nanotubes and resistive random-access memory (RRAM) cells.

Indium’s reinforced solder alloys provide higher strength and thermal cycling reliability

Indium Corp., Clinton, N.Y., offers InForms reinforced solder alloy fabrications consisting of solder and a reinforcing matrix.

Brewer Science and Arkema to develop directed-self-assembly high-chi polymers

Brewer Science Inc., Rolla, Mo., announces the extension of its partnership with Arkema to develop second-generation directed self-assembly (DSA) materials using high-x (chi) block copolymers.

RIT scientists receive $1 million to develop carbon nanotube wires to replace copper

Rochester Institute of Technology, New York, announces that its researchers have won an award of $1 million from the Department of Energy’s advanced manufacturing office for development of nanometal-interconnected carbon conductors for advanced electric machines.

New transistor concept based on metal nanoparticles with energy gaps

Hamburg University, Germany, announces that a group led by Dr. Christian Klinke has succeeded in producing transistors based on metal nanoparticles so small that they no longer show their metallic character under current flow, but they do exhibit an energy gap caused by the Coulomb repulsion of electrons.

Bruker X-ray diffraction imaging systems offer in-line monitoring of wafer crystalline defects

Bruker Semiconductor Division, Billerica, Mass., announces that leading multiple semiconductor manufacturers have ordered JVSensus-600E X-ray diffraction imaging systems for in-line wafer monitoring of crystalline defects.

One Minute Mentor: X-Ray Diffraction Patterns in AISI 316

The graph shows X-ray diffraction patterns of nitrided (and carburized) stainless steel AISI 316.

Bodycote combines AM with powder metallurgy processes to produce complex parts

Bodycote, England, introduces Bodycote Powdermet technologies, a group of additive manufacturing processes for the production of complex components via powder metallurgy.

United Process Controls upgrades heat treating systems controls for axle manufacturer

United Process Controls Inc., Bethlehem, Pa., is nearing the completion of a large, multi-year control systems upgrade project for a manufacturer of automotive axles.

Alcoa to restart three potlines in Indiana to supply Warrick aluminum rolling mill

Alcoa Corp., Pittsburgh, announces plans to restart three of five potlines at its Warrick Operations aluminum smelter near Evansville, Indiana, an action that will further improve the competitiveness of the on-site rolling mill.

Solar Atmospheres builds climate-controlled chamber for medical/aerospace heat treating

Solar Atmospheres of Western PA, Hermitage, has constructed a climate-controlled chamber for the daily operation of its new all-metal hot-zoned vacuum furnace.

NASA grants $10M to cut supersonic aircraft sonic booms by shape-memory-alloy morphing

The National Aeronautics and Space Administration, Washington, announces that it has granted $10 million to a CASMART industry-academic team that will lead research into designing commercially viable civil supersonic transport aircraft that can modify shape during flight under a range of conditions to meet noise and efficiency requirements for overland flight.

Shape-memory, self-healing effects demonstrated in gold microparticles

The Technion-Israel Institute of Technology, Israel, and the Karlsruhe Institute of Technology, Germany, announce that their researchers have demonstrated for the first time the phenomena of shape memory and self-healing in gold microparticles.

U.S. Steel Corp. finalizes sale of U.S. Steel Canada to Bedrock Industries

United States Steel Corp., Pittsburgh, announces that it has finalized an agreement with Bedrock Industries Group LLC, New York, for the sale and transition of ownership of U.S. Steel Canada Inc. to Bedrock.

Oxford Instruments Industrial Analysis business joins Hitachi to form new company

Oxford Instruments, England, announces that its Industrial Analysis business will join Japan’s Hitachi High-Technologies to form a new company, Hitachi High-Tech Analytical Science.

Molten aluminum poured over 3D-printed steel lattice multiplies damage tolerance

Oak Ridge National Laboratory, Tenn., and Rice University, Houston, report that a new manufacturing method developed by Oak Ridge and Rice combines 3D printing with traditional casting to produce damage-tolerant components composed of multiple materials.