Continental Corp., Auburn Hills, Mich., announces that its powertrain developers have launched series production of the first car turbocharger with an aluminum turbine housing.
Continental launches first automotive aluminum turbocharger housing
Alcoa forged aluminum fan blade to fly on P&W jet engine
Alcoa, Pittsburgh, announced at the Farnborough Air Show that it has signed a ten-year, $1.1 billion agreement with Pratt & Whitney for state-of-the-art jet-engine components.
Materials Genome Initiative marks third anniversary with funding increase
The Obama Administration has announced that it is stepping up its investment in the U.S. MGI, reinforcing its commitment to the program on the occasion of its third anniversary.
Alcoa’s aluminum bonding technology wins R&D 100 award
Alcoa, Pittsburgh, announces that R&D Magazine has named Alcoa 951 — an enabler for adhesive bonding of aluminum-intensive vehicles (AIVs) — an R&D 100 Award winner.
U.S. Navy unveils high-speed rail gun
This video shows a U.S. Navy demonstration of a railgun. A railgun is an electrically powered electromagnetic projectile launcher. It is made of a pair of parallel conducting rails, along which a sliding armature is accelerated by the electromagnetic effects of a current that flows down one rail, into the armature, and then back along […]