The Obama Administration has announced that it is stepping up its investment in the U.S. MGI, reinforcing its commitment to the program on the occasion of its third anniversary.
Alcoa’s aluminum bonding technology wins R&D 100 award
Alcoa, Pittsburgh, announces that R&D Magazine has named Alcoa 951 — an enabler for adhesive bonding of aluminum-intensive vehicles (AIVs) — an R&D 100 Award winner.
U.S. Navy unveils high-speed rail gun
This video shows a U.S. Navy demonstration of a railgun. A railgun is an electrically powered electromagnetic projectile launcher. It is made of a pair of parallel conducting rails, along which a sliding armature is accelerated by the electromagnetic effects of a current that flows down one rail, into the armature, and then back along […]
Iron-manganese-silicon shape-memory alloys designed to reinforce concrete
The Engineering Structures Laboratory of the Swiss Federal Laboratories for Materials Science and Technology (EMPA), Switzerland, has reportedly developed an iron-based shape memory alloy for reinforcing concrete that has a lower melting point and is lower in cost than nickel-titanium SMAs.
MedShape porous PEEK suture anchor features shape memory technology
MedShape Inc., Atlanta, has received FDA 510(k) clearance for its Morphix SP Suture Anchor.