Solar Atmospheres of Western PA treats a record load of titanium

Solar Atmospheres of Western PA, Hermitage, vacuum degassed a record 175,000 pounds of 6Al-4V titanium in their 48-foot-long vacuum furnace. The furnace load consisted of 154 sheets of titanium 40” wide X 240” long. It represented the largest and heaviest single load of titanium ever processed in Solar’s history. Bob Hill, president of Solar Atmospheres […]

Knots smaller than human hair make materials unusually tough

In the latest advance in nano- and micro-architected materials, engineers at Caltech, Pasadena, Calif., developed a new material made from numerous interconnected microscale knots that made the material far tougher than identically structured but unknotted materials.