Sciaky Inc., Chicago, reports that its Electron Beam Additive Manufacturing (Ebam) technology helped a major automotive manufacturer cut significant time and cost from building and repairing several tooling and stamping dies.
Carpenter Technology Corp., Wyomissing, Pa., has developed Cartech Hypocore, a new soft magnetic steel that offers performance benefits between those found in Carpenter’s high-performance Hipercore family of high-cobalt magnetic alloys, and those of commercial silicon-based alloys.
Researchers from the Harvard John A. Paulson School of Engineering and Applied Sciences (SEAS), Cambridge, Mass., in collaboration with colleagues from Duke and Yale universities, recently developed a method to predict which alloys might form a bulk metallic glass.
Inspired by beavers, engineers at MIT fabricated fur-like, rubbery pelts and used them to identify a mechanism by which air is trapped between individual hairs when the pelts are plunged into liquid.
Directed energy deposition, an important metal additive manufacturing process, is now covered in an ASTM International standard.
