Flavio Campanile, head of a research group in Empa’s Mechanics for Modeling and Simulation Laboratory, is convinced that aircraft can be made which move more elegantly and, above all, more economically through the air. “Sooner or later it will be possible to make wings without ailerons, flaps and thousands of individual parts. They will have in principle only one component, which continually changes shape.”
Researchers at the California Institute of Technology have developed a way to make some notoriously brittle materials ductile -- yet stronger than ever -- simply by reducing their size.
The worldwide adoption of aluminum in industrial and consumer applications is nearing a tipping point and may be about to surge, according to Philip Martens, president and chief operating officer of Novelis, a global lea...
Stork failure analysis expert Dr. John Tartaglia of Stork Climax Research Services in Wixom, Michigan, is offering a free technical seminar, "Aspects of Metallurgy in the Medical Device World ."
The U.S. Conference of Mayors, Novelis Inc. and Keep America Beautiful, Inc. (KAB) announced the winners in the sixth annual Cans for Cash: City Recycling Challenge at the U.S. Conference of Mayors 78th Winter Meeting in...
Alcoa Defense, the defense industry's leading supplier of aluminum, titanium and other light alloys, today hailed the commissioning of the first General Dynamics Littoral Combat Ship (LCS), the USS Independence. Desi...
ESAB Welding & Cutting Products offers a wide range of welding filler metals designed to meet the most stringent requirements of the structural steel industry, including a complete range of Seismic Certified filler m...
After having already reduced direct emissions from primary production by 70 percent since 1990 – equal to a staggering three tonnes CO2-equivalents per tonne metal produced – Hydro aims to curb emissions even further and take global lead in the aluminium industry within the global fight against climate change.
BHP Billiton today announced it has approved its share of the capital expenditure required to expand mining and processing capacity at the Antamina copper and zinc mine in northern Peru.
Antamina is a joint venture b...
Alcoa (NYSE:AA) and the Bonneville Power Administration (BPA) have reached an agreement to provide power for the Intalco aluminum smelter in Ferndale, Washington. The agreement will help secure 528 jobs at the facility, ...
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