Metals and Alloys Archives - Page 12 of 17

Desktop Metal’s single-pass jetting is four times faster than other binder jet 3D printers

Desktop Metal, Burlington, Mass., announces several major advances and expanded capabilities to its Production System, the world’s fastest metal printer, delivering the lowest cost per part with the highest capacity of any metal 3D printing system available.

Buehler introduces programmable AutoMet grinder-polishers with intuitive touch screen

Buehler, an ITW company, Lake Bluff, Ill., introduces the AutoMet family, semi-automatic grinder-polishers with advanced programming features such as method storage and z-axis material removal to ensure consistent results regardless of operator.

Instron “Errors in Your Data” online course helps operators identify data integrity issues

Instron, Norwood, Mass., launches an all-new online training course designed to help operators of materials testing systems understand data integrity issues they may encounter during testing.

Swiss Federal Labs join heat-sensitive materials with reactive foil nanolayers

Researchers at Swiss Federal Laboratories (EMPA) announce that they have developed a joining process in which reactive nano-multilayers join a wide variety of heat-sensitive components without any loss in quality.

Ipsen USA receives orders for nine Titan vacuum furnaces and seven others in October

Ipsen USA, Cherry Valley, secured multiple vacuum furnace orders last month, ending with a total of 16 new orders, including nine Titan vacuum furnaces, a record month in the 10-year production of the global platform product.

New Surface Combustion website enables easy access to designs of heat treating furnaces

Surface Combustion Inc., Maumee, Ohio, has recently updated its website, which provides details about its standard atmosphere and vacuum furnace designs.

Ipsen ships Titan vacuum furnaces, custom furnaces, and box furnaces in third quarter

Ipsen USA, Cherry Valley, Ill., announces that in the third quarter the company shipped several Titan vacuum furnaces from the platform product line, several custom horizontal and vertical vacuum furnaces, and multiple atmosphere box furnaces, all designed to meet customer specifications.

Seco Vacuum supplies second vacuum heat treating furnace to global manufacturer

Seco Vacuum, Meadville, Pa., announces that it is to supply a second vacuum furnace to the U.S.-based manufacturing operations of a global manufacturer.

University of Minnesota finds Ruthenium to be the fourth magnetic element

University of Minnesota, Minneapolis-St. Paul, announces research demonstrating that the chemical element ruthenium (Ru) is the fourth single element with unique magnetic properties at room temperature.

NIST researchers design new strikers and strain gauges for more accurate Charpy tests

The National Institute of Standards and Technology (NIST), Boulder, Colo., reports that its engineers are working to improve striker design and associated instrumented strain gauges for more accurate Charpy tests.

Leco atomic emission spectrometer offers stability, accuracy, precision

Leco, St. Joseph, Mich., introduces the GDS900 glow discharge atomic emission spectrometer, which is designed specifically for routine bulk elemental determination in most conductive solid metal matrices.

NASA develops Laser Wire Direct Closeout 3D printing method to build rocket engine nozzles

Engineers at NASA’s Marshall Space Flight Center in Huntsville, Alabama, have reportedly developed and tested a new additive manufacturing technique called Laser Wire Direct Closeout (LWDC

Spray Tips: Thermal spray coatings advantages and disadvantages

Buildup of a thermal spray coating is a chaotic process, because molten particles spread out and deform (splat) as they strike the substrate, at first keying onto asperities, then interlocking with one another.

Hybrid Advanced Manufacturing of Structural Materials

For a metal additive manufactured part to achieve final geometric dimensions with required precision, the desired surface finish, and obtain specified material properties, an entire value chain of processes must be used that includes conventional materials manufacturing processes.

Ames Lab receives $392,000 from DOE to commercialize gas atomization nozzle design

The U.S. Department of Energy’s Ames Laboratory, Iowa, has received $392,000 in funding to commercialize a gas atomization nozzle design for producing metal powders for manufacturing.

Ipsen Titan H6 enables company to expand production capacity, meet increased demand

Ipsen, Cherry Valley, Ill., announces that Rockford Heat Treaters, the original beta tester for the Ipsen Titan vacuum furnace, recently purchased a Titan H6 to expand production capacity and to meet increased demand.

Lindberg MPH ships tube heat-treating furnace for research and development

Lindberg MPH, Riverside, Mich., has shipped a 2190°F hinged three-zone furnace to an R&D lab for heat treating process tubes and retorts made of ceramic, quartz, or metal alloys.

ASM announces three winners of the 2017 materials genome toolkit contest

The ASM Materials Education Foundation, Materials Park, Ohio, announces the winners of the 2017 ASM Materials Genome Toolkit competition: the undergraduate engineering departments at the University of Florida, the University of Pittsburgh, and Wright State University.

Optomec awarded NASA contract for 3D printing of electronics by ALSS

Optomec, Albuquerque, N.M., announces that the company has been awarded a NASA SBIR contract for the further development of an adaptive laser sintering system (ALSS) for electronics.

Hybrid technology combines 3D printing, traditional grinding to produce ship propeller

The Port of Rotterdam announces that its Rotterdam Additive Manufacturing Lab (RamLab) is working with Autodesk, San Rafael, Calif., to build a large ship propeller by combining 3D printing with traditional milling and grinding.

Rotterdam 3D printing lab builds ship propeller with six-axis robotic arms

The port of Rotterdam announces that it has opened the Rotterdam Additive Manufacturing Lab (RamLab), an onsite facility that includes a pair of six-axis robotic arms capable of additively manufacturing large metal industrial parts.

QuesTek CEO & ASM Fellow Aziz Asphahani elected to National Academy of Engineering

QuesTek Innovations LLC, Evanston, Ill., announces that Dr. Aziz Asphahani, Questek President & Chief Executive Officer and a Fellow of ASM International, has been elected to the U.S. National Academy of Engineering.

Organic compound developed to separate rare earth metals for recycling

The University of Pennsylvania, Philadelphia, announces that its researchers have discovered a separation process that could make purifying recycled rare earth elements much less expensive.

Dynacast to acquire Signicast, the world’s largest investment casting manufacturer

Dynacast International, Charlotte, N.C., has signed a definitive share purchase agreement to acquire Signicast LLC, a highly automated and vertically integrated manufacturer of precision investment cast parts.

Dynacast to acquire Signicast, the world’s largest investment casting manufacturer

GE Aviation invests more than $4 billion in the United States over five years

GE Aviation, Evendale, Ohio, announces that its investments in the United States have reached $4.3 billion in expanding operations during 2011-2016, thanks to record production on a new generation of jet engines, engine components, and aircraft systems.

Ryerson acquires Laserflex for its laser fabrication and welding capabilities

Ryerson Holding Corp., Chicago, announces that it has acquired the Laserflex Corp., which specializes in laser fabrication and welding, and further enhances Ryerson’s existing fabrication and metal processing capabilities.

Surgical pins change color with strain

Engineers at Tufts University, Medford, Mass., created a new format of solids made from silk protein that can be preprogrammed with biological, chemical, or optical functions, such as mechanical components that change color with strain, deliver drugs, or respond to light.

How sand withstands bullets better than steel

While sand has been used traditionally for military fortification, very little is known about the unique energy absorption capability of the material.