Category: Materials Properties and Performance

VIDEO: Additive manufacturing: 3D printing beyond plastic

Engineers turn to copper, but must first overcome a major challenge

NIST hosts first app challenge to improve data access

Researchers looking for information on the properties of methane at high temperatures or the isotopic composition of an element know they can rely on standard reference data from NIST.

LIFT project focuses on iron alloys in thin-wall castings

Grede will work with Michigan Technological University, others to bring thin-wall ductile iron castings to high-volume production.

Collaboration to develop carbon fiber for automotive light-weighting

The Ford Motor Co., Dearborn, Mich., and DowAksa, Turkey signed a joint development agreement to formally advance research on cost-effective, high-volume manufacturing of automotive-grade carbon fiber.

Conferences convene for successful Mega Show event

Aerospace and thermal spray professionals gathered for aerospace coating and materials information.

3D-Printed Habitat Challenge

NASA and the National Additive Manufacturing Innovation Institute, known as America Makes, are holding a new $2.25 million competition to design and build a 3D printed habitat for deep space exploration.

Program focuses on future materials scientists

With advances in science and technology, today’s high school students could end up working with materials that don’t even exist today.

Better understanding of steel fracturing

Researchers from the Universidad Carlos III de Madrid (UC3M), Spain, visualized step-by-step and on a microscopic level how certain steels fracture when extreme loads are applied to them.

Battelle elects ASM Fellow Subra Suresh to its Board of Directors

Battelle Memorial Institute, Columbus, Ohio, announces the election of Carnegie Mellon University President Subra Suresh to its Board of Directors.

Fort Wayne Metals develops high-strength CP Grade 4 titanium medical implant wire

Fort Wayne Metals, Fort Wayne, Ind., introduces 4TiTude, the first medical implant wire to combine the benefits of pure titanium with the strength of Ti-6Al-4V ELI.