The largest Seco/Vacuum retort furnace to be delivered to Spain
Seco/Vacuum, Meadville, PA, announced that their furnaces have once again been selected by the international Aalberts Surface Technologies Group.
DARPA Innovation Fellowship
DARPA, Arlington, Va., is accepting applications for its Innovation Fellowship, a two-year position for early career scientists and engineers.
Open-source software enables researchers to visualize nanoscale structures in real time
A University of Michigan-led team of engineers and software developers developed a new beta version of tomviz, an open-source 3D data visualization tool software that connects directly to an electron microscope, enabling researchers to see and manipulate 3D visualizations of nanomaterials in real time, and is already used by tens of thousands of researchers.
Solar Atmospheres acquires Vac-Met Inc.
Solar Atmospheres Inc. announces the acquisition of Vac-Met Inc., increasing its total commercial vacuum heat treating and brazing facilities to five plants across the U.S.
One Minute Mentor:Salt bath hardening line for high-speed steels
Tools that are heat treated in molten salt baths are heated up much more rapidly than by convection or radiation, thereby heat treating times are significantly shortened. The molten salt provides a ready source of heat and maintains the rate of heating necessary to reach equilibrium with the rate of heat absorption.
Metal reformation at nanometer scales
Massachusetts Institute of Technology has published a new study that shows what happens when crystalline grains in metals reform at nanometer scales, improving metal properties. This includes recrystallization, in which the metal is deformed and heated.