The university recently was awarded three separate contracts totaling $8 million from the Vicksburg-based U.S. Army Engineer Research and Development Center with a focus on data analytics and visualization systems, additive manufacturing and artificial intelligence-driven predictive maintenance.
A team of researchers at the University of Manchester has developed a new material called StarCrete, which is twice as strong as regular concrete and made from a mixture of extra-terrestrial dust, potato starch, and salt.
The April issue of Advanced Materials & Processes magazine has an editorial focus on Additive Manufacturing.
Mica, a common mineral found in granite, and has been extensively studied from geological, chemical, and technical perspectives. But recently a team from the Vienna University of Technology presented a study that explains the distribution of potassium ions on the mica surface. The researchers used a new type of atomic force microscope to conduct their investigation. Prior to this, the physical surface details of mica have never been studied on an atomic scale.
Oak Ridge National Laboratory (ORNL) researchers used neutron diffraction to identify a mechanism in a 3D-printed alloy—coined “load shuffling”—that could enable the design of better-performing lightweight materials for vehicles.
