Norsk Titanium U.S. Inc., Plattsburgh, N.Y., a subsidiary of Norsk Titanium AS, Norway, announces that in Q4 2016 it will open a nearly 70,000-sq.-ft. additive manufacturing production and training facility that will complement its new headquarters and manufacturing plant, which is currently in the design and planning phase with a targeted completion date in 2017.
The U.S. Air Force has announced that its new long-range stealth bomber will be called the B-21 Raider, as a tribute to the famed WWII Doolittle Raiders.
Higher chromium alloys, the range over which full austenitization can occur is further restricted. The variety of martensitic stainless steels would be very limited if only chromium and carbon were available as alloying elements, but fortunately nickel can make an important contribution.
Engineers are joining forces with designers, scientists and doctors at Drexel University, Philadelphia, to produce new biomedical textiles, which are not only fashionably functional, but could also be life savers.
Elementary school science teaches us that in the sun, dark colors get hot while white stays cool. Now new research from Lawrence Berkeley National Laboratory (Berkeley Lab), Calif., has found an exception: Certain dark pigments can stay just as cool as white by using fluorescence, the re-emission of absorbed light.
