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Member for Life
Member for Life ASM Lifetime Membership: a discounted membership rate to members who support the principles and goals of ASM and prefer to pay a one-time fee and to avoid ever having to renew. Want to be Member for Life? Tired of receiving yearly invoices from ASM? By purchasing ASM Lifetime Membership you pay once […]
Laser Deposition Technology
Laser Deposition Technology (LDT) is a process in which metal powder is injected into the focused beam of a high-power laser under tightly controlled atmospheric conditions. The resulting deposits may then be used to build or repair metal parts for a variety of different applications. Laser Deposition Technology (LDT) is a blanket name that encompasses […]
Aluminum Extrusion
Up close, in-depth look at the aluminum extrusion machining process and how PBC Linear is able to maintain the highest precision for their products.
Why the building (WTC7) fell
The National Institute of Standards and Technology (NIST), Gaithersburg, Mass., conducted an extensive three-year scientific and technical investigation of the Sept. 11, 2001, collapse of the 47-story World Trade Center building 7 (WTC 7) in NYC. This video describes the results of this study, which concluded that fires on multiple floors in WTC 7—which were […]