Aerospace and thermal spray professionals gathered for aerospace coating and materials information.
Continue readingProgram 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.
Continue readingASM International makes major update to alloy center database
ASM Alloy Center Database adds thousands of standards and commercial grades records.
Continue readingBetter 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.
Continue readingGreener ship propellers
Invention reduces the energy that foundries need to manufacture ship propeller blades by a third.
Continue readingSSAB launches Laser Plus steel with guaranteed flatness after laser cutting
SSAB Stockholm, Sweden, has introduced Laser Plus, a totally new generation of steels, for laser cutting that comes with unique guarantees: maximum flatness deviation of 3 mm/m after laser cutting and bending radius of 0 -1.5 x the material thickness.
Continue readingASM International partners with AQM to offer classes overseas
Fall metallurgical class schedule available for new Italy location
Continue readingEurope’s new age of metals
The European Space Agency has joined forces with other leading research institutions and more than 180 European companies in a billion-euro effort developing new types of metals and manufacturing techniques for this century.
Continue readingMulti-element high-entropy metal alloys crystallize as a single phase
The Department of Energy’ s Lawrence Berkeley and Oak Ridge National Laboratories announce that a new concept in metallic alloy design – called “high?entropy alloys” – has yielded a multiple-element material that is strong at cryogenic temperatures.
Continue readingWayne State develops technology for high-strength bainitic steels and austempered ductile irons
Wayne State University, Detroit, has finalized a license agreement with a new start-up company, Detroit Materials Inc., for a Wayne State-patented portfolio of high-strength low-alloy steels and cast irons for demanding applications.
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