The ASM Materials Education Foundation, Materials Park, Ohio, announces the winners of the 2017 ASM Materials Genome Toolkit competition: the undergraduate engineering departments at the University of Florida, the University of Pittsburgh, and Wright State University.
NanoAl Superalloys, Skokie, Ill., announces that its engineers will present six papers about its high-strength aluminum alloys at MS&T 2017 in Pittsburgh in October, some in conjunction with engineers from universities and other companies.
The Department of Energy, Washington, has announced nine projects that will receive approximately $4 million in cost-shared federal funding to improve the technical, environmental, and economic performance of new and existing technologies that extract, separate, and recover rare earth elements from domestic U.S. coal and coal byproducts.
United States Steel Corp., Pittsburgh, and Kobe Steel Ltd., Japan, will begin construction of a new continuous galvanizing line at their subsidiaries’ joint venture, Pro-Tec Coating Company in Leipsic, Ohio.
Electrochemical measurements show that transpassivity (which is necessary for the onset of pitting) of expanded austenite occurs at appreciably higher applied voltages than for austenite with the same metallic composition but without nitrogen.
