Basic direct heat treated (DHT) steel has a microstructure consisting of ferrite and pearlite, and the fatigue strength of such steels is not sufficiently high to meet the specifications for most highly stressed automotive parts.
Continue readingNitrex to add fourth building to Chicago heat treat facility for low-pressure carburizing system
Nitrex Heat Treating Services, Saint-Laurent, Quebec, announces a new plant investment aimed at expanding its commercial heat treat facility located in Aurora, just west of Chicago.
Continue readingQuesTek Innovations wins AFRL challenge to model AM process-structure-performance
The Air Force Research Lab (AFRL), Dayton, Ohio, and America Makes, Youngstown, Ohio, announce that QuesTek Innovations has won the Additive Manufacturing Modeling Challenge, “Macro-scale Structure-to-Properties Predictions,” to improve the understanding and modeling capability of the complex linkage of process-structure-performance of AM-built components.
Continue readingLindberg MPH mesh-belt conveyor furnace designed for microelectronics processing
Lindberg MPH, Riverside, Mich., has shipped an electric mesh-belt conveyor furnace with a nitrogen/hydrogen blend atmosphere to a microelectronics manufacturer in the United States.
Continue readingIpsen Group establishes atmosphere and vacuum technologies Excellence Centers
Ipsen USA, Cherry Valley, Ill., announces that it is establishing an Atmosphere Technology Excellence Center in Kleve, Germany, and a Vacuum Technology Excellence Center near Rockford, Illinois, in response to customer demand for expanded technical services, identical metallurgical outcomes worldwide, and solutions for processing newly developed materials.
Continue readingInstron edge-detection technology measures sheet metal strain faster and more accurately
Instron, Norwood, Mass., introduces AverEdge32, its latest innovation for measuring transverse sheet metal strain with high accuracy.
Continue readingOptomec advancement enables additive manufacturing of complex aluminum alloy parts
Optomec, Albuquerque, N.M., announces an advancement in capability for the company’s LENS directed energy deposition systems relative to additive manufacturing and repair of aluminum alloys.
Continue readingFourth Stratasys F900 3D printer to support BAE Systems Factory of the Future initiative
Stratasys, Eden Prairie, Minn., announces that BAE Systems has added a fourth Stratasys F900 3D printer to its manufacturing site in Samlesbury, England, in a continued effort to reduce costs and improve production agility.
Continue readingHigh temperature actuator alloy NiTi20Hf forged and hot-rolled to thin strips
Researchers from Fort Wayne Metals, Indiana; and NASA Glenn Research Center, Cleveland, will report on the results of a study in which a large-scale plasma-arc-melted NiTi20Hf ingot was subjected to a hot forging and rolling process, during the ASM International IMAT 2020 conference to be held in Cleveland in September.
Continue readingStandard methods under development for fatigue evaluation of SMA tubes and bars
Researchers from the Boeing Company and Texas A&M University will discuss two new standard test methods for fatigue in shape memory alloys at the ASM International IMAT 2020 conference in Cleveland in September.
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