Leco Corp., St. Joseph, Mich., introduces the AMH55 hardness testing system with advanced image-recognition technology, which allows analysis of information not available with limited threshold-based methods.
The University of New South Wales and Monash University, Australia, announce that a team of researchers has developed a high-strength magnesium-lithium alloy with density of 1.4 g/cm3, half as much as aluminum and 30% less than magnesium.
January 2016 Issue of Advanced Materials & Processes, featuring: Advanced Manufacturing, 3D Printing Blasts Off; Room Temperature Metallic Glue; Linear Friction Welding Update; and Joining Dissimilar Metals
SSAB, Sweden, has agreed to deliver a total of 25,000 metric tons of metal-coated, high-strength steel to the Spanish company CIE Egana to build support arms for parabolic reflectors in thermosolar plants.
ASM International, Materials Park, Ohio, is pleased to announce that Dr. Ursula R. Kattner, FASM, Physical Scientist, National Institute of Standards and Technology, Gaithersburg, Md., is the 2016 J. Williard Gibbs Phase Equilibria Award recipient.
