Renishaw, UK, introduces the new RenAM 500M additive manufacturing system, a laser-based powder bed fusion system designed specifically for the production of metal components on the factory floor.
Continue readingThe graph shows the time-temperature-transformation (TTT) curve for an unstabilized 430-type alloy with carbon plus nitrogen of 0.08%.
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Alcoa, Pittsburgh, opened a state-of-the-art, 3D printing metal powder production facility at the Alcoa Technology Center.
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The ASM Materials Education Foundation supports educators through a free 40-hour materials science workshop called the ASM Materials Camp®-Teachers.
Continue readingThe IMS Buehler Technical Paper of Merit award is selected each year by the IMS Buehler Best Paper Award Committee led by Dr. Mike Keeble, U.S. Labs and Technology Manager of Buehler Ltd. Papers are chosen from manuscripts published in Metallography, Microstructure, and Analysis (MMA).
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Instruments to be used for training on high precision manufacturing and materials testing techniques
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A Quintus Technologies hot isostatic press (HIP) will round out the line-up of high-tech equipment in the 10,000-square-foot metal additive manufacturing (AM) center recently opened by Sintavia LLC, in Davie, Fla.
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A touchscreen is an essential feature of many modern devices, but the material that gives most screens their touch sensitivity is in short supply.
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Employees at the Boeing Co. recently celebrated the grand opening of the new 777X Composite Wing Center (CWC) in Everett, Wash.
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Researchers at Lund University, Sweden, discovered how iron-based dyes work on a molecular level in solar cells.
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Chromium stabilizes the ferritic structure at high temperatures, but some austenite can form at high temperature in steels with 12% chromium and a low or medium percentage of carbon, as shown in the graph.
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One dozen flight mirrors are now installed on NASA’s James Webb Space Telescope, out of the eighteen mirror segments that make up the primary mirror.
Continue readingASM Fellow Richard D. Sisson has received Worcester Polytechnic Institute’s 2016 Board of Trustees’ Award for Outstanding Research and Creative Scholarship.
Continue readingLargest construction show in Western Hemisphere will feature the first use of 3D printed steel in an excavator designed by engineering students
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Most materials are capable of being only one thing at a time, but a team of engineers and physicists at the University of Wisconsin–Madison have now created an entirely new material in which completely contradictory properties can coexist
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NanoSteel, a leader in nanostructured steel materials, delivered its first advanced high strength steel (AHSS) to General Motors for initial testing.
Continue readingASM International, Materials Park, Ohio, announced an important update to the ASM Alloy Phase Diagram Database.
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The premiere of manned flights with the world’s first certified Multicopter, e-volo’s Volocopter VC200, Karlsruhe, Germany, marks a step forward in urban mobility.
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Pacific Northwest National Laboratory, Richland, Wash., announces that its research team has improved the strength of a titanium alloy by producing it via powder metallurgy and heat treating it at different temperatures, then quenching in cold water.
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New research has identified how liquid-like materials can change into a solid-like state without the addition of extra particles or changes in volume.
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A team of chemists, led by Xiaohu Xia from Michigan Technological University found a better way to make metal nanoframe catalysts.
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Alcoa, Pittsburgh, entered into an agreement with Airbus, France, to supply 3D-printed metal parts for commercial aircraft.
Continue readingA Missouri University of Science and Technology, Rolla, researcher and his colleagues have created a lightweight but very strong structural metal that could improve energy efficiency in aerospace, automobile, defense, mobile electronics, and biomedical applications.
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Imagine an aircraft that could alter its wing shape in midflight and, like a pelican, dive into the water before morphing into a submarine.
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New approach to preventing embrittlement could be useful in nuclear reactors.
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The Technical University of Munich reports that its engineers are optimizing processes to securely fuse metals and thermoplastics by first texturing the metal surface with a laser beam, producing tiny hollows, then applying heat.
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Tribogenics, Los Angeles, Calif., introduces the Watson XRF analyzer, in which the company says conventional glass X-ray tubes are replaced with an X-Change cartridge system that makes changing cartridges “as easy as changing the ink in an inkjet printer.”
Continue readingAs shown schematically in the graph, high-temperature hardness is made possible only by a very important straightening mechanism: secondary hardening, promoted by the precipitation of fine alloy carbides.
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ASM International, Materials Park, Ohio, announces that the new principal editor of the Metallurgical and Materials Transactions (Met Trans) family of journals will be Dr. Tresa M. Pollock, an internationally recognized leader in the science and technology of advanced structural alloys.
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NASA Goddard Space Flight Center, Greenbelt, Md., announces that one dozen beryllium mirrors have been installed on NASA’s James Webb Space Telescope, out of the eighteen mirror segments that make up the primary mirror.
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