Researchers and analysts from Penn State, Case Western Reserve University, the GE Global Research Center, and Microsoft announce that they are working on a $1.5 million collaborative research project to develop a cloud-based wireless sensing and prognostic system for monitoring machinery health.
Continue readingMulti-element nickel alloys resist radiation damage 100 times better than pure nickel
The University of Michigan, Ann Arbor, reports its researchers have discovered that nickel-cobalt-iron and nickel-cobalt-iron-chromium-manganese alloys in equal concentrations can be 100 times more resistant to radiation-induced swelling than pure nickel, meaning that radiation-induced cavities in these alloys are 100 times smaller than in pure nickel.
Continue readingBig River Steel Flex Mill to produce hot rolled steel one inch thick, 78 inches wide
Big River Steel, Osceola, Ark., announces that it has begun operations in the first steel mill in North America to connect an electric arc furnace to a Ruhrstahl Heraeus degasser, and will be the only EAF mill in the United States to produce hot rolled steel as thick as one inch and as wide as 78 inches.
Continue readingOne Minute Mentor: Distortion in Plasma-Carburized Stainless Steel
The graph shows the XRD patterns of low-temperature plasma-nitrided (PN), plasma-carburized (PC), and untreated AISI 316 stainless steel samples.
Continue readingVertical drop bottom furnace to heat treat aerospace aluminum alloys
Consolidated Engineering Co., Kennesaw, Ga., announces that it has received a purchase order for a mobile gantry drop bottom heat treat furnace system from a leading provider of aluminum alloys for aerospace applications.
Continue readingBelt casting to cut steel production costs, enable casting of TWIP and TRIP steels
The University of Warwick, England, announces that engineers at its Advanced Steels Research Centre are evaluating belt casting technology as a way to cut steel production costs and reduce energy costs by a factor of three.
Continue readingPortable heat treating system reduces crack sensitivity in aluminum plate
The Navy Metalworking Center, Johnstown, Pa., reports that it has designed and fabricated a heat treating system for aluminum plate that reduces sensitivity to cracking in the aluminum superstructure of the U.S. Navy’s CG 47 class cruisers.
Continue readingScanning lasers evaluated as part of an industrial process for hardening steel
Researchers at the UPV/EHU-University of the Basque Country, Spain, say they have validated a laser scanning optics system that may enable laser hardening of steel parts of varying shape and thickness at an industrial scale.
Continue readingOne Minute Mentor: The S-Phase
The success of plasma and gas nitriding at low temperatures (lower than 840°F) and solution nitriding at high temperatures is associated with the absence of chromium nitride or carbide precipitation, and thus with the formation in the surface layer of a particular phase called the S-phase.
Continue readingNucor to acquire Southland Tube for its high-strength steel hollow tubing
Nucor Corp., Charlotte, N.C., has agreed to acquire Southland Tube, an independent manufacturer of hollow structural section steel tubing, because “It is an excellent fit for our Nucor family and our strategy for profitable growth,” said John Ferriola, Chairman, CEO and President of Nucor.
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