Nomination deadline for the 2016 Class of Fellows is fast approaching
November 5, 2015
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The honor of Fellow of the Society was established to provide recognition to members for distinguished contributions in the field of materials science and engineering, and to develop a broadly based forum for technical and professional leaders to serve as advisors to the Society.
If you are interested in nominating someone for this prestigious award, please contact Christine Hoover, for a unique nomination link. This link will be exclusive to you, as the nominator, and will provide you the ability to work through the nomination at different times to add content and attachments until you submit the final nomination.
The ASM Fellow Award is first and foremost an award for technical achievement and not intended to exclusively award contributions to ASM International. To the extent possible, the selection committee shall select a diverse slate of nominees from all the constituencies of ASM.
Five years of current, continuous membership in ASM International as an individual is required at the time of nomination.
Candidates for the award may be proposed by Chapters through their Executive Committee, Affiliate Societies, Regional Councils, Committees/Councils, Award Selection Committee, Awards Policy Committee, ASM Fellow or any five members of the Society.
Please be aware that the nominee, and nominator(s), must be current ASM members in good standing, or the nomination will not be accepted. If you have any question regarding the status of membership, please contact me.
The nomination is limited to ten pages, plus up to five letters of support for a total of 15 pages (this is in addition to the nomination form).
The honor of Fellow of the Society was established to provide recognition to members for distinguished contributions in the field of materials science and engineering, and to develop a broadly based forum for technical and professional leaders to serve as advisors to the Society. The deadline for submission is November 30.
ASM Handbooks Online now includes Volume 5B: Protective Organic Coatings
October 29, 2015
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ASM International, Materials Park, Ohio, recently released ASM Handbooks Online, which features the addition of ASM Handbook, Volume 5B: Protective Organic Coatings. This all new volume addresses a need for comprehensive information on organic coatings, including coating materials, surface preparation, application processes, industrial uses, and coating evaluation and analysis methods. It is an essential reference for industrial coating users, specifiers, and contractors. Industry respected authors and reviewers make this latest entry to ASM's handbook series the authoritative source for industrial coating information worldwide. See below for content included.
COATING MATERIALS:
Alkyd resins
Acrylic coatings
Epoxy resins and curatives
Polyvinylidene fluoride-based coatings technology
Fluoroethylene vinyl ether resins for high-performance coatings
Phenolic coatings
Polyester and vinyl ester coatings
Polyurethane coatings
Polyurea-based coatings
Polyaspartic coatings
Polymeric floor coatings
Powder coatings: Pipelines
Powder coatings: Other industries
Silicon-based technologies in coatings
Polysiloxane hybrid coatings
Smart coatings and nanotechnology applications in coatings
Bitumens – coal tar and asphalt coatings
Wax-based coating systems
Zinc-rich coatings
SURFACE PREPARATION AND COATING APPLICATION:
Surface preparation
Soluble salts beneath coatings
Coating application methods
Shop and field quality control and quality assurance
Worker health and environmental hazards associated with coating application and removal
Green coatings
Coating various substrates
INDUSTRIAL USES:
Pipeline industry coatings
Marine coatings
Coatings used in the nuclear industry
Bridge coatings
Transportation-railcar coatings
Guidance for the use of protective coatings in municipal potable water systems
Protective coatings for corrosion control in municipal wastewater systems
Guidelines for maintenance coating of steel structures in pulp and paper mills
Coatings for commercial structures and building deficiencies that affect performance
COATING ANALYSIS AND EVALUATION:
Estimating the cost of industrial painting projects
Coating deterioration
Coating failure analysis
Laboratory testing
Coating failures and defects
Overview of other protection methods
ASM Handbooks Online is the industry's best known and most comprehensive source of information on ferrous and nonferrous metals and materials technology. Features the complete content of 34 ASM Handbook volumes, ASM Handbook supplements, and ASM Desk Editions—more than 25,000 pages of articles, illustrations, tables, graphs, specifications, and practical examples, providing peer-reviewed, trusted information in every area of materials specialization.
Quick and advanced search features enable users to search across the complete ASM Handbook collection in seconds. Additionally, a Contents Tree provides users with an intuitive way to browse and drill down to specific handbook volumes, articles, and sections of interest. The database provides aspiring and practicing engineers with instant, anytime access to the most trusted and comprehensive materials information resource available.
"ASM Handbooks are unique and valuable resources for the engineering community," says Scott D. Henry, ASM Director of Content and Knowledge Based Solutions. "They are written and edited by volunteers, assisted by ASM staff, to provide practical, in-depth technical information that is not readily available from other sources. This latest update to ASM Handbooks Online adds a wealth of information on organic coatings to the series."
For more information, or to schedule a customized demonstration via WebEx for your organization, please contact Denise Sirochman at 440.338.5409.
ASM International, Materials Park, Ohio, recently released ASM Handbooks Online, which features the addition of ASM Handbook, Volume 5B: Protective Organic Coatings.
Engineers at The Ohio State University, Columbus, developed a new welding technique that consumes 80% less energy than a common welding technique, yet creates bonds that are 50% stronger. The new technique could have a huge impact on the auto industry, which is poised to offer new cars which combine traditional heavy steel parts with lighter, alternative metals to reduce vehicle weight.
Despite recent advances in materials design, alternative metals still pose a challenge to manufacturers in practice. Many are considered unweldable by traditional means, in part because high heat and re-solidification weaken them, said Glenn Daehn, professor of materials science and engineering at Ohio State, who helped develop the new technique.
"Materials have gotten stronger, but welds haven't. We can design metals with intricate microstructures, but we destroy the microstructure when we weld," he says. "With our method, materials are shaped and bonded together at the same time, and they actually get stronger." Daehn explained the new process in a keynote address at the Materials Science & Technology 2015 meeting recently in Columbus.
In a common technique called resistance spot welding, manufacturers pass a high electrical current through pieces of metal, so that the metals' natural electrical resistance generates heat that partially melts them together and forms a weld. The drawbacks: generating high currents consumes a lot of energy, and the melted portions of metal are never as strong afterward as they were before.
Over the last decade, Daehn and his team have been trying to find ways around those problems. They've amassed more than half a dozen patents on a system called vaporized foil actuator (VFA) welding. In VFA, a high-voltage capacitor bank creates a very short electrical pulse inside a thin piece of aluminum foil. Within microseconds (millionths of a second), the foil vaporizes, and a burst of hot gas pushes two pieces of metal together at speeds approaching thousands of miles per hour.
The pieces do not melt, so there is no seam of weakened metal between them. Instead, the impact directly bonds the atoms of one metal to atoms of the other. Seen under a high-powered microscope, the bond is actually quite beautiful, and often features delicate curlicues in spots where veins of both materials extend outward and wrap around each other. The technique uses less energy because the electrical pulse is so short, and because the energy required to vaporize the foil is less than what would be required to melt the metal parts.
So far, the engineers have successfully bonded different combinations of copper, aluminum, magnesium, iron, nickel and titanium. They have created strong bonds between commercial steel and aluminum alloys—a feat which is impossible normally. Also, high-strength steel and aluminum join together with weld regions that are stronger than the base metals.
The technique is powerful enough to shape metal parts at the same time it welds them together, saving manufacturers a step. Daehn and his team now want to join with manufacturers to further develop the technology, which will be licensed through Ohio State's Technology Commercialization Office.
This project is funded by the Department of Energy and the National Science Foundation (NSF), and was one of the first to participate in I-Corps@Ohio, a new collaboration modeled after and approved by NSF's successful I-Corps commercialization program. Ohio is the first to have a statewide collaboration that is based on the NSF model, yet fully funded by the state. The program is funded and supported by the Ohio Department of Higher Education.
The Materials Science & Engineering annual meeting is organized by the American Ceramic Society, the Association for Iron & Steel Technology, ASM International, and the Minerals, Metals & Materials Society.
Image caption — Microscope view of steel (top) welded to aluminum alloy (bottom) using a new technique developed at The Ohio State University. Courtesy of Glenn Daehn/OSU.
Engineers at The Ohio State University developed a new welding technique that consumes 80% less energy than a common welding technique, yet creates bonds that are 50% stronger—creating a huge impact on the auto industry.
The Boeing Co., Seattle, released a video showcasing the lightest metal structure ever, called Microlattice—"the world's lightest material."
Sophia Yang, a research scientist at HRL Laboratories, Malibu, Calif., who worked with Boeing on the creation of the material, says the metal is 99.99% air. She compares the material to bone, which has a rigid outside and mostly hollow inside, creating an open-cellular structure, which means it's remarkably strong and light. The structure is composed of a network of super thin, hollow struts. The struts are around 100 μm in diameter and have walls just 100 nm thick. It's this design that makes Microlattice 10 times lighter than Styrofoam. However, despite it being extremely light, it is also tremendously strong.
Yang also highlights the material's ability to absorb high levels of impact. Using the "egg challenge" as an example, she says: "You need to drop an egg from 25 stories and protect that egg ... What we can do is design the microlattice to absorb the force that the egg feels. So instead of having an egg that's wrapped in three feet of bubble wrap, now you have a much smaller package that your egg can sit in."
The material has been made primarily for use in in aerospace engineering. Engineers intend to use the microlattice for plane interiors in places such as side panels, overhead cabins, or walkway areas. This would dramatically reduce the weight of the aircraft, making it more fuel-efficient and cheaper to run.
Microlattice was first announced in 2011 when a nickel-phosphorous alloy prototype was developed in collaboration between University of California, Caltech, and HRL Laboratories—the Boeing-owned lab that built the first laser in 1960. As the video explains, this development has many possibilities, ranging from use in aerospace, high-performance vehicles, as well as shock absorption and vibration insulation.
One Minute Mentor: Heat Treatment Applied to Tool Steels
September 30, 2015
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After hot forming, tool steel usually is exposed to a heat treatment process done to produce a low-hardness condition. Low hardness is important for machining, but the treatment also should promote a homogeneous microstructure, usually referred to as the annealed condition. The graph shows the process condition as a function of time, temperature, and phase transformation.
Volume 4D, Heat Treating of Irons and Steels -> Heat Treating of Carbon and Low-Alloy Steels -> Introduction to Heat Treating of Tool Steels -> Heat Treatment Applied to Tool Steels
Advancing development of thermal manufacturing technologies
September 24, 2015
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A new roadmap outlines a near-term strategy for the accelerated development and implementation of advanced technologies across the many industries that rely on thermal manufacturing, which collectively employ more than 5.4 million people and generate almost $3 trillion in economic activity. By providing specific actions for a more coordinated cross-sector approach to advanced thermal manufacturing in the next five years, this roadmap aims to enable the more than 100,000 businesses involved in and impacted by thermal manufacturing—97% of which are small and medium-sized companies—to improve the efficiency of their operations as well as the performance of the U.S. manufacturing sector as a whole.
Developed by the Thermal Manufacturing Industries Advanced Technology Consortium (TMI ATC) initiative under the leadership of ASM International, Materials Park, Ohio, and through funding from the National Institute of Standards and Technology (NIST), Gaithersburg, Md., Advanced Manufacturing Technology Consortia (AMTech) program, Advancing Thermal Manufacturing: A Technology Roadmap to 2020 identifies common barriers that currently constrain the use of advanced technologies in thermal manufacturing—including limitations of current technologies and processes as well as widespread non-technical issues related to workforce development and training.
"We were very pleased to be able to bring together different constituencies to develop this first roadmap in the thermal manufacturing area", says Terry Mosier, Managing Director of ASM International.
To address these common barriers, the roadmap offers a two-fold strategy that combines focused technology development with activities designed to stimulate and support technology implementation. The roadmap identifies 50 activities and seven detailed action plans to accelerate the development, adaptation, and implementation of advanced technologies throughout the thermal manufacturing community in the next five years.
The technology development activities identified in the roadmap aim to enhance the development and adaptation of heating methods and materials for thermal manufacturing equipment and products as well as improve the understanding, prediction, monitoring, and control of thermal manufacturing processes.
The technology implementation activities identified in the roadmap focus on stimulating the widespread acceptance and adoption of advanced technologies throughout the thermal manufacturing community to ensure that even small and medium-sized companies with limited resources can effectively implement these technologies in their operations.
Implementation of this roadmap's critical actions and priority action plans will be led by the Metal Processing Institute (MPI) at Worcester Polytechnic Institute, Mass., in conjunction with ASM International. Together, these organizations will engage their diverse membership bases—including members from academia, national laboratories, and industry—to catalyze action in this nationally critical area.
"The increased development and implementation of advanced technologies can ultimately better position the U.S. thermal manufacturing in the global economy," says Diran Apelian, MPI Director. "This roadmap provides a compelling path forward that should be of interest to all stakeholders."
Automotive lightweight materials congress returns to Detroit
August 3, 2015
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Annual Global Automotive Lightweight Materials Congress
August 18-20, 2015 – Detroit
This is the largest and most trusted automotive lightweight materials conference, and this years instalment of GALM is scheduled to be the biggest and best ever. The series has been attended by 2000+ attendees across the globe and is returning to Detroit with a 3-day agenda – to share unprecedented detail across composites, joining, forming, and multi-material design.
Building on the successes of GALM events in London, Detroit, and Shanghai this year, this event is fully expected to sell-out, with over 80 attendees and 24 exhibitors already confirmed.
The expert panel of speakers includes:
David Wagner, Technical Leader Lightweight Vehicle Design, Ford Motor Co.
Surender Maddela, Sr. Research & Development Engineer, Materials Engineering, Nissan Motor Corp.
Stephen Logan, Senior Engineering Specialist, Chrysler Group LLC
Bhavesh Shah, Senior Advanced Technology Design Release Engineer, General Motors
Nir Khan, Director Of Design, Plasan
Mark Voss, Engineering Group Manager, Body Advanced Technical Works, General Motors
Venkat Aitharaju, Senior Researcher, Polymer Composites, General Motors Global Research and Development
Raymond Boeman, Program Director, Energy Partnerships, Oak Ridge National Laboratory
Laurent Chappuis, Technical Expert - Lightweight Stampings, Vehicle Program Engineering – SBU, Ford Motor Co.
Glenn Daehn, Mars G. Fontana Professor Of Metallurgical Engineering, Executive Director, Honda Partnership Program
With an agenda re-written from scratch and providing a globally respected platform for leading OEMs, material suppliers, joining and forming partners, the 2015 agenda provides new, exclusive content including:
NINE UNIQUE CASE STUDIES ON JOINING: Mitigating corrosion with strong joining for every material combination that can be applied with low cycle times
FORMING METALS: Benchmarking forming methods for magnesium and aluminum to enable adoption into multi-material architectures
EIGHT DEDICATED SESSIONS ON COMPOSITES: From reducing the costs and cycle times of production to design modeling and application success stories
DESIGN AND MATERIAL SELECTION: Selecting the optimal materials across the body, interior and closures to maximize total weight loss across the vehicle
RECYCLING: Analyzing the lifecycle implications for aluminum and carbon-fiber, tackling segmentation and re-use challenges
NIST hosts first app challenge to improve data access
July 30, 2015
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Researchers looking for information on the properties of methane at high temperatures or the isotopic composition of an element know they can rely on standard reference data from the National Institute of Standards and Technology (NIST), Gaithersburg, Md. But what they really need is an app (or apps) to make the data more accessible.
As a step in that direction, NIST is launching its first app challenge. Prizes totaling $45,000 can go to developers who create applications that offer new ways to access and use data from one or more of six eligible scientific data collections maintained by NIST.
NIST maintains some of the world's most accurate and comprehensive datasets of physical, material, chemical, and biological data covering a broad range of substances and properties. These datasets are invaluable research tools for physicists, biochemical engineers, environmental researchers, students, and many others. The app challenge is meant to boost awareness of these resources and modernize their use. To support the challenge, NIST has made six of its datasets available in machine-readable format. The contest is open to U.S. citizens or permanent residents over the age of 18.
Challenge participants must make the app available for testing at no cost to NIST, and it must be accompanied by a brief text submission, at least one screenshot of the app, and a brief (less than five minute) video describing the functionality of the app. Entries are due by Sept. 28.
NIST experts will vet technical aspects of the apps and a group of judges will evaluate submissions to identify the best. The criteria for judging will be the app's potential impact, its creativity and innovation, how well it is implemented, and the integration of one or more SRD or other data into the app.
The six eligible NIST Standard Reference Datasets to be used in the challenge are:
CODATA Fundamental Physical Constants (NIST SRD 121) — provides the most accurate internationally recommended values of the fundamental physical constants that are essential to basic theories of physics and our quantitative understanding of the physical universe.
Ground Levels and Ionization Energies for the Neutral Atoms (NIST SRD 111) — primarily used by chemists and astronomers to calculate thermodynamic properties of atoms in chemical reactions and other kinetic processes, and by atomic physicists to benchmark experimental data for advanced atomic theories.
Atomic Weights and Isotopic Compositions (NIST SRD 144) — provides atomic weights for elements 1 through 118 and is used by scientists in detecting radioactive isotopes, dating of paintings and sculptures, determining the origins of meteor samples and more.
NIST Computational Chemistry Comparison and Benchmark Database (CCCBDB, NIST SRD 101) — provides thermochemical data for a selected set of more than 1000 gas-phase atoms and molecules. It is used by chemists to compare experimental results with computational ideal-gas properties.
NIST-JANAF Thermochemical Tables (NIST SRD 13) — originally used by the aerospace industry to understand rocket propellant combustion, these thermochemical data for a range of chemical substances are used world-wide in a range of chemistry, environmental and materials applications. Industry scientists use these tables to predict thermodynamic information about chemical substances, including equilibrium mixtures and heat release.
NIST ITS-90 Thermocouple Database (NIST SRD 60) — provides temperature calibration data for converting a measured voltage to temperature, and is the basis for calibration of thermometers, instrument controllers and other devices that rely on temperature for process control. These types of devices are found in virtually every technology including kitchen ovens, hot water heaters, residential and commercial furnaces, power plants, and more.
The Reference Data Challenge follows NIST's first participation in the National Day of Civic Hacking, held June 6 in which NIST invited coders from across the U.S. to play with a subset of its Standard Reference Data. The challenge also complements NIST's ongoing efforts to ensure its data and research results are publicly accessible. On July 8, 2015, NIST released a new data access plan and is asking the public for feedback to help guide its policies and procedures.
Researchers looking for information on the properties of methane at high temperatures or the isotopic composition of an element know they can rely on standard reference data from NIST.
