Category: Automobiles and Ground Transportation

Titanium carbide nanoparticles infused into aluminum alloy 7075 enable strong welds

Engineers at the UCLA Samueli School of Engineering announce that they have developed a way to weld aluminum alloy AA 7075 by infusing titanium carbide nanoparticles into welding wires, which results in welded joints with a tensile strength up to 392 MPa.

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.

Wisconsin Oven dual-chamber heat treating furnace preheats up to 4000 pounds of steel

Wisconsin Oven Corp., East Troy, has shipped a natural gas-fired Heavy Duty Batch Series furnace for preheating dies to a customer in the automotive industry.

Wisconsin Oven ships mix of custom and standard ovens in 2018 to many industries

Wisconsin Oven, East Troy, reports that 2018 was another strong year of growth, as the company shipped 224 pieces of equipment to customers in industries such as composites, aerospace, technology, and automotive.

Lindberg ships 130 heat treating systems to automotive, aerospace, and other industries

Lindberg MPH, Riverside, Mich., reports that in 2018 the company shipped a total of 130 units to companies in industries such as automotive, aerospace, foundry, electronics, R&D, oil & gas, and technology.

AK Steel uses neutron spallation source at Oak Ridge to improve manufacture of AHSS

AK Steel Corp., West Chester, Ohio, accepted an award of up to $1.2 million last October from the U.S. Department of Energy under the Office of Energy Efficiency and Renewable Energy’s Advanced Manufacturing Office program to investigate novel low-density steels that could ultimately be used in automotive structural applications.

Mettech launches NanoFeed nanopowder suspension feeders for thermal spray torches

Northwest Mettech, Vancouver, announces that its NanoFeed line of liquid and suspension feeders for the thermal spray industry has been developed to enable delivery of submicron powders to thermal spray torches.

SSPC, AWS, NACE announce Public Review Period for revised thermal spray standard

The Society for Protective Coatings, the American Welding Society, and NACE International announce a public review period for its proposed Joint Standard/Standard Practice, “Specification for the Application of Thermal Spray Coatings (Metallizing) of Aluminum, Zinc, and Their Alloys and Composites for the Corrosion Protection of Steel.”

Ford’s $45 million Advanced Manufacturing Center has 23 additive manufacturing machines

Ford Motor Co., Dearborn, Mich., announces that it has opened an Advanced Manufacturing Center dedicated to developing advanced technologies for improving the company’s approach to building cars and trucks.

Massive precipitation of nanoscale AlTi particles strengthens multiple-metal alloy

City University of Hong Kong (CityU) researchers report that they have developed a novel strategy to design new high-strength alloys that are also ductile and flexible by causing massive precipitation of nanoscale particles.