ASM International’s CMD Network is pleased to announce the winners of the 2015 ASM Materials Genome Toolkit competition.
Continue readingHigh-power diode laser for heat treating consists of multiple laser modules
The Hamburg Rofin macro group, Germany, broadens its product range with a new series of fiber-coupled, high-power diode lasers for hardening, brazing, soldering, and coating.
Continue readingEFD Induction rotary table system hardens sun gears for auto supplier
EFD Induction USA, Madison Heights, Mich., reports that a major U.S. tier-one automotive supplier recently ordered an EFD Induction Rotary Table (HardLine RT 550) hardening system for treating sun gears, and a vertical scanner system (HardLine VM 1000) for hardening output shafts.
Continue readingOutokumpu stainless steel fuel tank weighs 3 kg less than plastic
Outokumpu Oy, Finland, announces that the stainless steel fuel tank developed by its engineers and TechROi Fuel Systems received the New Applications Award presented by the International Stainless Steel Forum in the “Best New Development” category at the ISSF Annual Conference in Hong Kong.
Continue readingOlympus portable digital ultrasonic flaw detector has full-screen A-scan mode
Olympus Scientific Solutions Americas Inc., Waltham, Mass., introduces the Epoch 650 digital ultrasonic flaw detector that combines conventional ultrasonic flaw detection capabilities with the efficiency of a highly portable, intuitive instrument.
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 readingNew method for friction stir welding aluminum is ten times faster
Researchers at Pacific Northwest National Laboratory, Richland, Wash., in partnership with General Motors, Alcoa, and the Tailor Welded Blank (TWB) Co., have developed a friction stir welding technique that is said to be ten times faster than current FSW techniques.
Continue readingMagnesium syntactic foam metal matrix composite floats on water
Researchers from Deep Springs Technology, Toledo, Ohio, and New York University Polytechnic School of Engineering have reportedly demonstrated a magnesium syntactic foam metal matrix composite with density so low that it can float on water.
Continue readingLaser shock peening improves fatigue and durability of aircraft structures
The University of Cincinnati reports that its researchers and Airbus engineers have developed a laser shock peening technology in which several lasers simultaneously focus beams of infrared light on sections of aluminum, titanium, or nickel-base superalloy components.
Continue readingIpsen TurboTreater heat treats castings for aerospace applications
Ipsen, Cherry Valley, Ill., recently shipped a horizontal TurboTreater vacuum furnace with two-bar gas quenching to a metal-casting company in Texas.
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