Buehler, Lake Bluff, Ill., announces that it has extensively upgraded its Wilson DiaMet hardness testing software with features designed to facilitate and accelerate specific applications, such as the documentation of the hardness distribution in welds, or the depth of hardening in induction-hardened workpieces or in objects hardened by conventional processes.
Solar Atmospheres of California, Fontana, announces that it has been awarded Nadcap 24-month Merit status for Heat Treating, which means that instead of having its next Nadcap audit in eighteen months, it has been granted an accreditation that lasts until July 31, 2018.
One of the hottest new materials is a class of porous solids known as metal-organic frameworks, or MOFs. Scientists around the world are working on ways to use the synthetic materials for things like hydrogen storage, carbon sequestration, or photovoltaics.
Stainless steel rebar produced by Outokumpu, Finland, is being used to reinforce a spill basin at the new liquefied natural gas (LNG) Gate Terminal on Rotterdam’s North Sea coast.
Designing a 3D-printed structure is hard enough when the product is inches or feet in size. Imagine shrinking it smaller than a drop of water, smaller even than a human hair, until it is dwarfed by a common bacterium.
