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.
Admedes Schuessler invests $80 million for Nitinol production and R&D center
Admedes Schuessler GmbH, Germany, has strategically invested $80 million in its operations in Pforzheim, Germany, to expand Nitinol manufacturing and to develop new technologies to support the medical device industry’s rapid pace of innovation.