The new journal, Shape Memory and Superelasticity: Advances in Science and Technology, now has articles to view online.
Design for manufacturability reduces time to market for Nitinol devices
According to Norman Noble, Cleveland, Ohio, Design for Manufacturability and Concurrent Engineering can cut in half costs and time-to-market, while adding significant improvements to quality and delivery.
Producing biodegradable plastic just got cheaper and greener
Biodegradable drinking cups or vegetable wrapping foil: the bioplastic known as polylactic acid (PLA) is already a part of our everyday lives.
LIFT project focuses on iron alloys in thin-wall castings
Grede will work with Michigan Technological University, others to bring thin-wall ductile iron castings to high-volume production.
Jeol FE SEM features super hybrid lens design for high resolution imaging
Jeol USA, Peabody, Mass., introduces the 7000 series of Field Emission Scanning Electron Microscopes with ultrahigh resolution and low-kV/low-vacuum operation for imaging and nano-analysis of structures, surface details, and magnetic samples.