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Machine Learning Unlocks Secrets to Advanced Alloys
Killian Sheriff and Yifan Cao, MIT graduate students, are using machine learning to quantify, atom-by-atom, the complex chemical arrangements that make up the concept of short-range order. Read on to learn more.
Briefs Aerospace
Testing Military-Grade Adhesive in Extreme Loading Conditions
Military performance requirements for adhesives have been traditionally derived to fulfill niche defense needs in harsh operational environments with little consideration for dual-use commercial potential. Read on to learn more.
News Energy
MEMS Drive Wants to Shake up Automotive Sensor
Advanced optical image stabilization (OIS) technology used in mobile phones should have a home in the automotive world. Specifically, using microelectromechanical systems (MEMS) to move an...
Briefs Materials
Evaluation of Additively Manufactured Ultrahard Steels
Recent advances in both alloy development and additive manufacturing have enabled the production of ultrahigh-strength steels in near net shape parts.
Technology Report Materials
NVH-Fighting Plastic EV Motor Mount Wins Lightweighting Award
Most motor mounts, even for EV applications, are made of metal alloys. It makes intuitive sense: It’s a vibration-intensive mounting application that demands durability that...
Briefs Materials
Composite Repair Engineering Case Studies for U.S. Army Aerostructures
As technologies develop, aircraft mature, and strides are made in advanced materials development and analysis, aircraft have increased use of advanced composites within the aerostructure. These advanced materials are now being used in highly loaded structures, including aerodynamic profiles.
News Materials
Panel: Better Tech Can Make Recycled Aluminum More Desirable
A panel of metal-recycling experts said the biggest challenge facing the recycling industry is that the composition of materials coming from the stream of scrapped vehicles does...
News Manned Systems
2024 Ford F-150 Sports Flashy Tailgate, Better Raptor Ride
To say Ford believes it has lightning in a bottle with the Pro Access tailgate debuting on the refreshed 2024 Ford F-150 would be an understatement. “We’re going to end the...
Articles Materials
Plasma Electrolytic Oxidation: The Future of Lightweight Designs in Aerospace and Defense
Plasma Electrolytic Oxidation is a unique surface coating technology that specializes in light metals, aluminum, magnesium and titanium specifically. It enables the lightweighting of components that face extreme environments from a reliable and effective coating process.
Articles Materials
Cadillac's Future-Tech Flagship
Restoring the Cadillac brand to its golden-age pinnacle, when it stood equal among Europe’s ultra-luxury greats, has long been an intermittent dream within GM. The grandiose ‘Sixteen’ concept in 2003...
News Regulations/Standards
Altair Honors Innovations in Sustainability and Lightweighting
Ford follows up its top prize in last year’s Sustainable Product category – for the Mustang Mach-E – with another electric-vehicle winner, the 2022 F-150 Lightning. The...
News Sensors/Data Acquisition
SAE International Extends Call for Abstracts, Seeks Submissions for AeroTech Conference
Engineering Events staff at SAE International in Warrendale, Pennsylvania, have extended the call for abstracts through September 21 for the...
Application Briefs Manufacturing & Prototyping
CAD-CAM-CNC System
Siemens Industry, Inc.Munich, Germany1-800-743-6367www.siemens.com DMG MORI manufactures a wide variety of conventional chip-cutting and ultrasonic machining centers for OEMs and production job shops serving the aerospace...
Application Briefs Manufacturing & Prototyping
3D Printable Superalloy
Velo3D, Inc. Campbell, CA+1-408-610-3915www.velo3d.com Velo3D, Inc., a company that specializes in metal additive manufacturing technology for mission-critical parts, has qualified the nickel-based superalloy powder...
Articles Manufacturing & Prototyping
Finding the Perfect Aluminum for Additive Manufacturing
Make aluminum work for you (and your 3D-printing applications).
Articles Manufacturing & Prototyping
Low Distortion Titanium in Laser Powder Bed Fusion Systems
As the acceptance and application of additive manufacturing technology continues to evolve and grow, alloy selection will prove to be an important part of the development process.
News Manufacturing & Prototyping
Mahle Advances 3D Printing Capabilities
Slashing the time to produce prototypes for complex components, from several months to a few days, explains in part why Mahle’s technology group decided to build a new facility for additive...
Articles Power
Lightweight Steel on a (Cold) Roll
Automotive OEMs are faced with the difficult task of significantly improving fuel economy and safety, while maintaining a competitive position in the market – as well as investing in the electrified...
Articles Robotics, Automation & Control
Plasma Nitride Surface Hardening of Titanium for Aerospace and Armament Applications
Titanium is irreplaceable in many industrial applications. But the metal can still be improved.
News Energy
Constellium Develops New Alloys for EV Battery Enclosures
Aluminum is the dominant material for electric vehicle (EV) battery enclosures for one simple but significant factor: lightweighting capability. All currently available long-range...
Road Ready Unmanned Systems
Sparkling RWD Platform Underpins 2021 Genesis GV80
Genesis went standalone (in the same way most premium brands coexist with their parent company’s volume brands) from Hyundai Motor Group in 2016 and immediately asserted itself as...
Articles Materials
Vanadium: A Green Metal Critical to Aerospace and Clean Energy
From jet engine components to high-speed airframes, vanadium alloys are deployed in virtually every jet aircraft flying today,
News Manufacturing & Prototyping
Directing GM’s 3D-Printed Future
Among automakers, General Motors was an early adopter of 3-D printing/additive manufacturing (AM) in the 1980s and is accelerating both its use of, and investment in, the technology. Nearly 40,000...
Articles Manufacturing & Prototyping
Tesla’s Cybertruck Is Audaciously Austenitic
Not since Ford’s epic switch to aluminum for its F-Series body structures has an automaker’s materials strategy created such a buzz. Tesla’s decision to use stainless steel for its...
News AR/AI
How ZF Is Engineering Working from Home
Cheri Sczepanski is one of 2,700 members of ZF’s Foundation Brakes Engineering group who are coping with the COVID-19 shutdowns by finding humor where they can. When teams now working from homes in...
Articles Energy
Limiting Creep in Aerospace Materials
Creep is an especially important consideration for engineers designing jet engine turbines.
News Materials
Moving Metal AM Forward
The global 3D-printing metals market was estimated to be US $774 million in 2019, according to a recent research report by MarketsandMarkets. The research company projects the market to reach more than US $3.1...
News Materials
British HFQ Process May Enhance Aluminum’s High-Volume Future
With this year’s end stage of a major collaborative R&D project, the longstanding competition between steel and aluminum for high-volume vehicle production is set to...
News Mechanical & Fluid Systems
ALLEGRO Project Seeks to Boost Lightweight-Materials Durability
First define the lightweight material that best complements electric vehicle (EV) and automated-vehicle (AV) range efficiency – then optimize it for increased durability via...
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