Engineers at the University of Houston, Texas, developed a new ice-shedding surface coating 100 times stronger than other state-of-the-art materials.
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DARPA Innovation Fellowship
DARPA, Arlington, Va., is accepting applications for its Innovation Fellowship, a two-year position for early career scientists and engineers.
Continue readingVRC Metals announces their memorandum of understanding with Flame-Spray Industries Inc.
VRC Metal Systems, Box Elder, South Dakota, a leading developer of advanced cold spray technologies, entered into a memorandum of understanding with Flame-Spray Industries Inc., a leader in thermal sprayed coatings based out of New York.
Continue readingAerobraze OKC awarded USAF contract for F-15 primary heat exchanger remanufacture
The United States Air Force has awarded Wall Colmonoy Aerobraze Engineered Technologies Oklahoma City a five-year contract for the remanufacture of F-15 fighter aircraft fin and plate heat exchangers at the Mountain Home Air Force Base.
Continue readingAir Transport Components to open MRO facility in Tulsa, Oklahoma
Air Transport Components, Gilbert, Ariz, announced plans to establish a new MRO facility in Tulsa, Oklahoma that will offer HVOF thermal spray coatings, grinding, NDT, and painting, and plans to expand these offerings in the future.
Continue readingNova Graphene awarded two defense contracts to develop corrosion-resistant materials for helicopter rotors
Nova Graphene, Nova Scotia, Canada, has been awarded two contracts by Canada’s Department of National Defense’s Innovation for Defense Excellence and Security program to develop graphene-enhanced materials to protect helicopter rotors from erosion & wear due to exposure to sand, ice, and water.
Continue readingFokker Services unveils new component maintenance technology
Fokker Services, an Independent Aerospace Service Provider, has installed new, fully automated twin wire electric arc spray technology at its LaGrange, Ga., facility.
Continue readingCold spray technology enhances depot capabilities
Letterkenny Army Depot, the U.S. Army’s professional maintenance facility in Chambersburg, PA, adopted cold spray technology as part of its modernization plan.
Continue readingPicosun ALD demonstrates effective surface protection for materials in space conditions
The atomic layer deposition process from Picosun, Finland, has been demonstrated to be a suitable solution for protection of surfaces exposed to atomic oxygen degradation in low-Earth orbit.
Continue readingAlgorithm could shorten quality testing and research in many industries by months
A machine-learning algorithm developed at Sandia National Laboratories, Albuquerque, N.M., could provide auto manufacturing, aerospace and other industries a faster and more cost-efficient way to test bulk materials.
Continue readingCovalent Metrology’s Failure Analysis Group delivers enhanced x-ray inspection services
Covalent Metrology, Sunnyvale, Calif., announced the newly installed Quadra 7 x-ray inspection system, which achieves spatial resolution down to 100 nanometers and delivers 4K-level detail for subsurface imaging.
Continue readingCreating coatings for extreme environments: from solar shields to hypersonic leading edges
Researchers at the Johns Hopkins Applied Physics Laboratory in Laurel, Md, are developing coatings that can stand up to the rigors of hypersonic flight in the upper atmosphere.
Continue readingUsing modern flame spray technology to metallize capacitors, or schoopage
Saint-Gobain, Worcester, Mass., offers the Master Jet Auto IV thermal flame spray gun, flame spray technology with a proprietary cooling system that can achieve low heat input that is crucial to avoid heat build-up and distortions in metalized film coatings.
Continue readingU.S. Navy awards $9,962,646 IDIQ to NTS
National Technical Systems Inc., Anaheim, Calif., the leading independent provider of qualification testing, inspection, and certification solutions in North America, has been awarded a $9,962,646 contract from the United States Navy.
Continue readingPhillips Federal expands Rock Island Arsenal additive manufacturing capability with a WarpSPEE3D machine
Phillips Federal, Hanover, Md., has acquired a new WarpSPEE3D Metal AM printer from SPEE3D, Austria, to be located at their Center of Innovation at the at the Rock Island Arsenal’s Additive Manufacturing Center of Excellence.
Continue readingQuesTek’s Ferrium N63 answers one of aerospace’s biggest challenges
Through Navy Phase I and Phase II SBIR programs, QuesTek Innovations LLC, Evanston, Ill., developed Ferrium N63, a nitridable stainless steel alloy for bearing, gear, and other wear-critical applications, that demonstrates a unique combination of high-surface hardness, fatigue life, thermal resistance, core strength and ductility, including down to cryogenic temperatures.
Continue readingHitemco facility expansion will better serve the aerospace industry
Hitemco, Old Bethpage, N.Y., completed a 10,000-square-foot expansion to be able to take on more projects that keep the military, commercial, and private aerospace sectors running smoothly.
Continue reading3D printing nanoresonators: toward miniaturized and multifunctional sensors
Collaborating researchers from the Politecnico di Torino, Italy, and the Hebrew University of Jerusalem, Israel, 3D printed mechanical nanoresonators with properties such as quality factor, published stability, mass sensitivity, and strength comparable to those of silicon resonators.
Continue readingOptomec delivers $1 million metal additive system for production repair of turbines
Optomec, Albuquerque, N.M., announced the delivery of a multifunctional additive manufacturing machine to a leading supplier to the $37 billion worldwide aviation engine maintenance repair and overhaul market.
Continue readingStandardAero acquires Singapore-based Asian Surface Technologies
StandardAero, Scottsdale, Ariz., has signed an agreement with joint venture partners Pratt & Whitney, a division of Raytheon Technologies, Waltham, MA, and SIA Engineering Company Limited, Singapore, to purchase 100% ownership stake in Singapore-based component repair facility, Asian Surface Technologies Private Limited.
Continue readingSpaceX Crew-3 has IMS connection
The Space-X Crew-3 headed to the International Space Station (ISS) has a connection to the International Metallography Society (IMS). German astronaut, Matthias Maurer, from the European Space Agency (ESA), was a former student of Prof. Frank Muecklich, FASM, at Saarland University in Saarbruecken. In addition, Muecklich’s team has been assisting from the ground with some important preparations for ISS experiments.
Continue readingCold spray additive manufacturing of components for launcher propulsion systems
Impact Innovations GmbH, Germany, collaborating with Airborne Engineering, a UK based company specializing in propulsion system design and testing, demonstrated its cold spray additive manufacturing process is suitable for combustion chambers for commercial rocket engines.
Continue readingWisconsin Oven ships electrically heated walk in series oven to aerospace industry
Wisconsin Oven, East Troy, Wis., has announced the shipment of an electrically heated enhanced duty walk-in oven to the aerospace industry. The oven will be used for powder coatings and curing applications.
Continue readingTitomic sells TKF1000 to leading UK research organization TWI
Titomic, Australia, received a purchase order from TWI, UK, of GBP1.2 Million (approx. $2.28 Million USD) to supply a TKF1000 system, forming the basis of TWI’s overarching Cold Spray Additive Manufacturing Project.
Continue readingThermal spray coating market 2021-26: size, share, market analysis, opportunity and forecast
According to the latest report by Imarc Group, Sheridan, WY, the global thermal spray coating market exhibited moderate growth during 2015-2020 and is expected to grow at a CAGR of around 7% during 2021-2026.
Continue readingDOE awards $30M to secure domestic supply chain of critical materials
The U.S. Department of Energy, Washington, announced $30 million in funding for 13 national lab and university-led research projects to develop new technologies that will help secure the supply of critical materials that build clean energy technologies.
Continue readingSeco/Vacuum sells two Vector furnaces to Australian Defense
Seco/Vacuum, Meadville, Pa., has sold two new Vector single chamber high-pressure quench vacuum to the Australian defense industry through HTA. These will go to the Melbourne and Sydney commercial heat treatment facilities to provide expanded processing capabilities.
Continue readingAccurate Brazing receives Nadcap merit accreditation
Accurate Brazing, Greenville, S.C., has received the Nadcap merit accreditation for heat treating at its Pelham Road facility. The accreditation is for demonstrating an ongoing commitment to quality by satisfying customer requirements and industry specifications.
Continue readingAtomica announces new brand, $50 million equipment acquisition
Atomica, Santa Barbara, Calif., formerly known as Innovative Micro Technology Inc., a global leader in microelectromechanical systems, has acquired $50 million of cutting-edge semiconductor processing tools.
Continue readingFinding the cause of a fatal problem in rocket engine combustors
A team of researchers from Tokyo University of Science, Japan, and the Japan Aerospace Exploration Agency used advanced time-series analyses based on complex systems to find out the cause of fatal problems in rocket engine combustors.
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