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  • New Type of Strong, Lightweight Metallic Material
    News - 10 Mar 2005
    An engineering professor at the University of California, San Diego has described in the March issue of JOM (the Journal of the Minerals, Metals and Materials Society) the unique properties of a new...
  • Detectors Guard Against Foam Flaws in Shuttle's Fuel Tank
    News - 9 Mar 2005
    The engineers who built the massive external fuel tank that will power the shuttle Discovery into orbit this spring used sophisticated X-ray detectors developed by UF researchers to reduce the chance...
  • Piezoelectric Polymeric Coatings - Application in Computer Devices and Sensors
    Article - 18 Jul 2003
    Sensors for curved and rounded surfaces are typically difficult to apply. Described is a piezoelectric polymer coating that can be applied to complex surfaces. How it works and potential applications...
  • ATK Win Composites Contract Worth a Potential $18.5m
    News - 24 Aug 2004
    ATK Advanced Propulsion and Space Systems (APSS), the company’s newest business group, has received a series of advanced technology contracts valued at $8.5 million. Follow-on options could...
  • The Metals Heat Treatment Industry in the UK
    Article - 2 Oct 2002
    Heat treatment engineers constantly complain that their customers look at heat treatment as an “add on”. Methods were uncontrolled, unreliable, and inaccurate, so engineers continued to over-design by...
  • Graphite (C) - Classifications, Properties & Applications
    Article - 10 Sep 2002
    Graphite is a distinct material, displaying properties of both metals and non-metals. It is typically grayish-black in color, opaque, and has a radiant black sheen.
  • Superalloys - An Introduction
    Article - 14 May 2002
    Superalloys have excellent resistance to high temperature deformation and corrosion. Three main types are cobalt-based, iron-based and nickel-based. Some commonly used tradenames include Inconel,...
  • Friction Stir Welding
    Article - 7 Jan 2002
    Friction stir welding is a recent modification on friction welding. It is suited to aluminium, magnesium and other metals and can join dissimilar materials. Advantages over fusion welding are, no...
  • Microwave Sintering of Metals
    Article - 9 Oct 2001
    Metallic powders are good absorbers of microwaves and can be sintered by microwave radiation. Processing in this way has advantages over conventional methods including faster and more energy efficient...
  • Surface Treatments for Ceramics
    Article - 27 Aug 2001
    Surface treatments such as ion implantation, ion beam mixing, laser processing, PVD, CVD and laser alloying are being applied to monolithic ceramic materials to improve surface properties so that they...

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