Air Transport Components, Gilbert, Ariz, announced plans to establish a new MRO facility in Tulsa, Oklahoma that will offer HVOF thermal spray coatings, grinding, NDT, and painting, and plans to expand these offerings in the future.
Nova Graphene, Nova Scotia, Canada, has been awarded two contracts by Canada’s Department of National Defense’s Innovation for Defense Excellence and Security program to develop graphene-enhanced materials to protect helicopter rotors from erosion & wear due to exposure to sand, ice, and water.
The spray-pattern phenomena is described here, and applies to all thermal spray processes.
Video description In science, the most exciting experiments are the ones where the result is nothing like you expected. Scientists Lauren Zarzar and Seong Ik Cheon’s surprising discovery of structural color is now leading them into a whole new field of research.
Video description Paul Canfield is a talented cook, whether it’s food or new materials for scientific study. Tomorrow’s inventions, whether next-generation wind turbines or supercomputers, need materials that don’t yet exist or haven’t been perfected. Canfield’s lab and other Ames Lab scientists are hard at work doing just that, and one such process can be […]
