The University of Michigan, Ann Arbor, reports its researchers have discovered that nickel-cobalt-iron and nickel-cobalt-iron-chromium-manganese alloys in equal concentrations can be 100 times more resistant to radiation-induced swelling than pure nickel, meaning that radiation-induced cavities in these alloys are 100 times smaller than in pure nickel.
Big River Steel, Osceola, Ark., announces that it has begun operations in the first steel mill in North America to connect an electric arc furnace to a Ruhrstahl Heraeus degasser, and will be the only EAF mill in the United States to produce hot rolled steel as thick as one inch and as wide as 78 inches.
A team of researchers from Missouri University of Science and Technology, Rolla, and National and Kapodistrian University of Athens, Greece, have demonstrated a more efficient, less cost-prohibitive way to split water into its elements of hydrogen and oxygen.
Researchers at Georgia Tech are working with Delta Air Lines Inc., both in Atlanta, on procedures for repairing composite parts used in aircraft.
Robots and prosthetics are becoming ever more human-like, but the electronic skins designed to enhance their usefulness do not yet have the full range of tactile senses that we have.
