An article by one of the leading authorities on titanium brazing – vetted and accepted for publication in the peer-reviewed ASM Handbook, Volume 6, Welding, Brazing, and Soldering – is now available online in digital form. “Brazing of Conventional Titanium Alloys,” a comprehensive, fact-filled survey by industry expert Alexander E. Shapiro, Ph.D., Titanium Brazing Inc., offers in-depth analysis and practical advice on how to braze commercially pure and alloyed titanium with itself as well as with other materials such as copper, stainless steel, carbon steel, ceramics, graphite, and titanium aluminide.
Continue readingPresident’s Message
It’s hard to believe that we are already well into the summer months of 2017! It’s been a very busy and exciting year for ASM and TSS.
Continue readingGirl Scouts learn how to be Materials Girls
This July, fifteen Girl Scouts traveled to the ASM dome to take part in demonstrations that explained materials property concepts and introduced them to engineering. The scouts, who were between 7 to 11 years old, earned a Materials Girl patch by participating in the program. The day was organized by the ASM Women in Materials Engineering committee in collaboration with the Northeast Ohio Girl Scouts council.
Continue readingSpray Tips: Volumetric Powder Feeders
Volumetric powder feeders are based on a positive-displacement mechanism that delivers packets of powder.
Continue readingOne Minute Mentor: Residual Stress Profiles
Residual stress profiles of nitrided austenitic AISI 316 are shown in the graph.
Continue readingMetalysis signs joint R&D program to develop aluminum-scandium powder alloy
Metalysis, England, has signed a joint research and development program with an international partner to co-create high-value aluminum-scandium alloys.
Continue readingLockheed Martin awards $1 million to Denver university for additive manufacturing lab
Lockheed Martin, Denver, announces that it will award a $1 million grant to the Metropolitan State University of Denver to establish an on-campus Lockheed Martin Additive Manufacturing Laboratory, where students will have access to a state-of-the-art AM system on which to design and create aerospace components.
Continue readingLindberg MPH box furnace can provide six different heat treating atmospheres
Lindberg MPH, Riverside, Mich., has shipped an electrically heated rod over-bend atmosphere box furnace capable of providing six different atmospheres, to a company in the steel and mining industry.
Continue readingWisconsin Oven enhanced-duty walk-in ovens will dry sand cores for casting in two hours
Wisconsin Oven Corp., East Troy, Wis., has shipped two natural-gas-fired enhanced-duty walk-in batch ovens that are designed to dry the sand cores used in the casting of a variety of parts.
Continue readingHeat Treating Society member Steve Ferdon earns CHTE Distinguished Service Award
The Center for Heat Treating Excellence at the Worcester Polytechnic Institute, Mass., announces that it has presented its Distinguished Service Award to Steve Ferdon.
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