Stainless steel rebar produced by Outokumpu, Finland, is being used to reinforce a spill basin at the new liquefied natural gas (LNG) Gate Terminal on Rotterdam’s North Sea coast.
Stainless steel rebar reinforces spill basin
3D printing on the nanoscale
Designing a 3D-printed structure is hard enough when the product is inches or feet in size. Imagine shrinking it smaller than a drop of water, smaller even than a human hair, until it is dwarfed by a common bacterium.
Self-healing diamond-like carbon
Fans of Superman surely recall how the “Man of Steel” used immense heat and pressure generated by his bare hands to form a diamond out of a lump of coal.
F-22 Acrobatics at RIAT Airshow in England
The Royal International Air Tattoo (RIAT) is the world’s largest military air show, held annually over the third weekend in July, usually at RAF Fairford in Gloucestershire, England in support of The Royal Air Force Charitable Trust.
Chromium-aluminum PVD coating protects jet engine compressor vanes and seals
Wallwork Heat Treating Co., England, has developed Nitron CA, a PVD vacuum process in which a material comprised of chromium and aluminum bound with nitrogen is deposited on complex surfaces.