NASA’s Commercial Invention of the Year

Engineers Chris Kantzos and Tim Smith from the NASA Glenn Research Center in Cleveland can now call themselves inventors. They are the minds behind NASA Glenn’s breakthrough material, GRX-810. Their superalloy, developed for extreme conditions of air and spaceflight, was selected as NASA’s Commercial Invention of the Year for 2025. It was picked for its […]

Forging the future: advancing military and civil works with metal additive manufacturing

The U.S. Army Engineer Research and Development Center (ERDC) is dedicated to solving the nation’s most complex challenges in civil and military engineering, geospatial sciences, water resources, and environmental sciences. As part of its mission to maintain technological superiority and strengthen defense infrastructure, ERDC’s Geotechnical and Structures Laboratory, in collaboration with the Information Technology Laboratory, […]

One Minute Mentor: Distortion in Tool Steels

To control the distortion that occurs both during and after heat treatment, proper consideration must be given to such factors as design, composition, initial condition, machining procedure, and heat treatment. The design of a tool-steel part directly affects the susceptibility to shape distortion on heating and cooling. Limitations imposed by the design on composition, machining […]

Lindberg/MPH ships aluminum melting and holding furnace with integrated preheat hearth

Lindberg/MPH, Riverside, Michigan announced the shipment of a gas-fired reverberatory aluminum melting and holding furnace equipped with a preheat hearth. The system is designed for aluminum parts manufacturing and features a melt rate of 10,000 pounds per hour. The furnace offers a maximum operating temperature of 1,450°F and has a total holding capacity of 85,000 […]