A team of scientists from Fraunhofer IZFP, Germany, has developed a new measuring system for the aluminum industry to detect contamination in molten metal—an important tool during the production process.
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Titomic Limited, based in Brisbane, Australia, has announced the sale of a custom Titomic Kinetic Fusion System Cold Spray Additive Manufacturing machine to Triton Systems Inc., headquartered in Chelmsford, Mass..
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Constellium, France, announced that its facility located in Ravenswood, W. Va., was selected by the U.S. Department of Energy Office of Clean Energy Demonstrations to begin award negotiations for up to $75 million in Bipartisan Infrastructure Law and Inflation Reduction Act funding as part of the Industrial Demonstrations Program.
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When water vapor meets metal, the resulting corrosion can lead to mechanical problems that harm a machine’s performance. Through passivation, it also can form a thin inert layer that acts as a barrier against further deterioration. Either way, the exact chemical reaction is not well understood on an atomic level, but that is changing thanks to environmental transmission electron microscopy (TEM), which allows researchers to directly view molecules interacting on the tiniest possible scale.
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New research is helping scientists better understand how microstructures change, or undergo grain growth, at high temperatures, thus determining properties such as hardness. A team of materials scientists and applied mathematicians developed a mathematical model that more accurately describes such microstructures by integrating data that can be identified from highly magnified images taken during experiments.
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Researchers at the University of Illinois Urbana-Champaign have identified a novel pathway to stabilize the nanoscale precipitates in alloys.
Continue readingOak Ridge National Laboratory (ORNL) researchers used neutron diffraction to identify a mechanism in a 3D-printed alloy—coined “load shuffling”—that could enable the design of better-performing lightweight materials for vehicles.
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