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‘Military-grade’ Aluminum

2016-07-27

While the cracking debacle on 263 U.S. naval vessels didn’t cause the Navy to halt aluminum use in all ship construction, it did prompt a re-think of future architectures and materials.

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Zwick Roell provides flexible materials testing over a wide temperature range

2018-10-19

To enable the tests required for development work to be performed with maximum efficiency, the Zwick Roell Group (ZwickRoell) – a global supplier of materials testing machines based out of Ulm, Germany – developed a materials testing machine that can be equipped with both a temperature chamber and a high-temperature furnace.

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Xtrac reveals 2014 Formula One gearbox technology

2014-01-29

Formula One rules for the 2014 season have changed in many areas, most notably the use of smaller-displacement turbocharged engines and a stronger hybrid-electric drive motor. Accompanying these changes are new gearbox specifications for 2014. The new rules call for eight forward speeds rather than the seven gears used in 2013.

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Wichita State’s National Center for Advanced Materials Performance partners with SAE International to standardize lightweight aerospace materials

2019-04-05

The National Center for Advanced Materials Performance (NCAMP) of Wichita State University (WSU) is partnering with SAE International to develop globally harmonized aerospace material and process specifications for advanced composites and non-metal additive manufacturing (AM) materials in the aerospace and air transport industries.

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Where key EV minerals come from

2022-03-03

EV production relies on imports from China, Chile, Argentina, Norway, Gabon and Canada.

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Weber Metals unveils new 540-meganewton press for aerospace components

2018-11-16

Weber Metals Inc., a division of Otto Fuchs KG of Germany, unveiled a new, $180 million, 60,000-ton press at its 2.5-acre facility in Paramount, California, southeast of Los Angeles. It sets a record as the highest tonnage hydraulic forging press in the Americas and the largest privately funded forging press investment in the world.

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Weaving a new future for composites

2021-08-04

Weaving a new future for composites Chris Oberste

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Wave spring series

2017-06-05

The Crest-to-Crest Wave Spring Series from Smalley, which features the company’s C (imperial) and CM (metric) Series, has been expanded.

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WCX17: Freudenberg retools R&D, plans for next 35 years

2017-04-05

Rather than limit itself to three-year product planning cycles, Freudenberg is also looking 35 years into the future to further drive its R&D work.

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WCX17: 3M enabling machine vision for self-driving vehicles

2017-04-04

3M is leveraging its 78-year history in lane markings and retroreflective traffic sign material to develop products for the automated driving environment.

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Ultra-light gasoline engine pistons

2017-04-19

KS Kolbenschmidt, a division of Rheinmetall Automotive, has refined its Liteks design for ultra-light, durable gasoline pistons.

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Toyota's new Structural Blue paint shimmers on Lexus LC500

2017-12-04

The color coat is an accumulation of ultra-thin, multi-layer film layers formed by a vapor deposition process that applies a thin layer of atoms of one material onto thin sheets of a polymer.

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Toughened nanocomposite

2014-04-09

Zyvex Technologies introduces a second-generation nanocomposite toughened with Arovex HT prepreg.

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Tooling decisions play major role in cost, turnaround time

2018-07-24

“Laddering up” of the range of tooling options requires assessing at each plateau whether greater upfront investment in tooling will pay off with a relatively quick return on investment. Since tooling plays such a key role in this equation, it also means working closely with OEMs willing to evaluate the best available tooling options at any time as production requirements increase.

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Thermoplastics added to modeling database

2014-06-19

Three high-performance thermoplastics from Victrex have been added to the Digimat-MX material and modeling database to accelerate the application development process while helping to minimize component weight and costs.

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Thermoplastic technology offers impact protection across automotive, sports, and defense

2015-03-24

The Oakwood Group and its technology licensee companies are designing engineered thermoplastic solutions to help protect vehicle occupants, sports players, and soldiers from severe impact injuries.

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The next material disruption

2018-04-06

In a recent joint paper by the Aerospace Technology Institute (ATI) and the National Graphene Institute (NGI) at the University of Manchester, researchers outlined the disruptive impact potential of graphene applications in aerospace. This comes at a time of marked graphene innovation from research teams in Japan and Singapore.

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The GE T901 will be the U.S. Army’s next gen helicopter engine

2019-02-05

While GE Aviation’s T700 turboshaft engine has powered the U.S. Army’s Apache and Sikorsky helicopters for more than 46 years, the U.S. Army will replace the T700 with GE Aviation’s fully modular T901-GE-900 engine as part of the Engineering and Manufacturing Development (EMD) phase of the U.S. Army’s Improved Turbine Engine Program.

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The F-22 Raptor gets its first metallic 3D-printed part

2019-01-24

Maintainers from the U.S. Air Force 574th Aircraft Maintenance Squadron (AMXS) have installed the first titanium additively manufactured titanium component on an operational Lockheed Martin F-22 Raptor.

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That 'new car smell' is forcing interior materials changes

2016-05-14

New organic chemicals are replacing nasty VOC-laden PVC and other materials, say experts at the 2016 WardsAuto Interiors Conference.