13/11/2015
Researchers at the Harvard John A. Paulson School of Engineering and Applied Sciences (SEAS) have developed a way to make steel stronger, safer and more durable. Their surface coating, made from rough nanoporous tungsten oxide, is claimed to be the most durable anti-fouling and anti-corrosive material to date, capable of repelling any kind of liquid even after sustaining intense structural abuse.
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11/11/2015
Global testing group, Exova has undertaken a test programme on a new corrosion-resistant stainless steel alloy (CRES) for a consortium of leading aerospace organisations. The new material is being developed for use in landing gear components and is claimed to be unique in its strength, lightness and affordability. Exova provided the consortium with a range of tests to determine strength, fracture toughness and stress corrosion cracking resistance.
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20/10/2015
Tata Steel has announced that 1170 jobs are being cut at its plants in Scunthorpe and Lanarkshire. They are the latest in a series of job losses across the UK steel sector and follow news that administrators have been appointed to parts of Caparo Industries' steel operations.
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20/10/2015
A team of researchers from institutions including Carnegie Mellon University, Xi'an Jiaotong University in China, MIT, and Johns Hopkins University, has developed a technique called cyclic healing that uses repetitive, gentle stretching to eliminate pre-existing defects in metal crystals.
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16/10/2015
Boeing claims to have created the worlds lightest metal, stating how the breakthrough could have major implications for aircraft and automotive fuel efficiency. The material is composed of a microlattice structure made of 99.99% air which makes it light enough to balance on top of a dandelion.
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23/09/2015
Photo-etching of titanium is opening up an array of possibilities for medical device OEMs.
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22/09/2015
Scientists have demonstrated for the first time how to generate a magnetic field in metals that are not naturally magnetic. The development could end reliance on rare and toxic elements commonly used by industry today.
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22/09/2015
A vibration clamping system has been produced by the Fraunhofer Institute to allow faster milling of aircraft turbine compressor blades. The system will aid damping by 400 times, cutting costs by nearly £4000.
Turbine blades are long and thin, and producing them causes them to vibrate like a tuning fork. To avoid this, manufacturers mill each blade step by step. However, this manufacturing process has its own problems as tension causes the geometry to become slightly warped.
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15/09/2015
Encrusted with marine life, the bell of the HMS Hood has been recovered from the seabed despite being sunk in the Atlantic Ocean 74 years ago.
It was recovered over a mile and half under the surface of the water, on the bottom of the Denmark Straight, where it was sunk following an encounter with the German battleship Bismarck in 1941. The team that recovered it was led by Microsoft founder and philanthropist Paul G Allen.
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01/09/2015
Aavid Thermalloy has announced its High Density Die Cast (HDDC) heat sinks. These heat sinks are said to offer several advantages over their machined, die cast and extruded counterparts.
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03/08/2015
Worcestershire based precious metal contacts and precision metal pressings specialist, Samuel Taylor, will shortly be commissioning a new multi-slide press to increase its production capacity for terminal blocks and circuit breaker components following high demand for the materials.
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26/03/2015
The UK government has awarded £15million funding to Brunel University, London, to fund a second phase of the new Advanced Metal Casting Centre.
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24/03/2015
The efficiency and reliability of reciprocating compressors can be substantially improved through the use of valve plates made of Victrex Peek, claims the company.
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17/03/2015
The orthopaedic implant sector is in a continual state of development, witnessing an explosion in novel materials' application and radical design alterations. This process is, however, often laced with challenges and articulating joints present a great number of these.
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16/03/2015
Whoever said, 'Britain doesn't make anything anymore', obviously isn't from Sheffield. In fact the city is producing some of the largest castings ever produced for German company SMS Meer.
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13/02/2015
Established to provide design and optimisation expertise for additive manufactured components to the high end engineering industries, Additive Design Consultancy (ADC), is a new company, based in Essex.
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12/02/2015
Researchers from the Universidad Carlos III de Madrid (UC3M) have visualised, step-by-step, and on a microscopic level, how certain steels fracture when extreme loads are applied to them. This could help to improve materials used in the automobile industry.
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23/01/2015
Engineering researchers at the University of Missouri have developed a material that has the ability to control elastic waves and believe their technology might have a range of applications.
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22/01/2015
Surface coating specialist Hardide Coatings is investing £4.5million in a US manufacturing plant to support customers in the oil and gas, aerospace, flow control and advanced engineering markets. The investment follows a recent increase in the capacity of Hardide's UK facility in Bicester.
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21/01/2015
A project to cut the weight of car exhausts in half is being supported by a grant from the Niche Vehicle Network's Research and Development Programme. Experts from JSE-UK, Unipart Eberspächer and Coventry University - in conjunction with a local high-performance vehicle manufacturer - plan to design and make exhaust systems weighing just 20kg through an intense six-month project.
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20/01/2015
A new fuel cell concept is set to enhance efficiency while simultaneously removing hazardous heavy metal ions.
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15/01/2015
Following a successful first 18 months for Barrett's Tube Division in Scotland, the company has announced a major investment north of the border with the launch of Barrett Steel Scotland.
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12/01/2015
Sheffield Forgemasters has secured contracts for forged steel rolls with Russia worth more than £9 million.
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16/12/2014
Researchers from North Carolina State University and Qatar University have developed an alloy that has a low density similar to that of aluminum, but is stronger than titanium.
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14/10/2014
Materials specialist Carbodeon has achieved a threefold improvement in the wear resistance of electroless nickel through the addition of nanodiamonds.
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