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Articles in January, 2001 issue of Advanced Materials & Processes

• Laser separates aluminum in scrap recycling method.
• Ultrahigh-speed camera images hypervelocity impacts.
• Friction stir welding.
• Technology Advances in SPECIALTY STEELS.
• 40 years ago...
• Industry Insider.
• Engineered polyolefin chosen for energy management.
• Sonic jets deposit thin dense coatings at low cost.
• Welding industry measures its impact on economic strength.
• Dispersion-strengthened silver.
  by Troxell, Jack
• Stainless catalyst substrate foil resists heat, oxidation.
• Layered polymer films can be dissolved by electric field.
• Vacuum-assisted techniques improve adhesion of thin film.
• Process Science Initiative offers funding for research.
• DuPont named winner of U.S. presidential award.
• Boron-aluminum-magnesium make second hardest material.
• Simulation models compared to predict thin film features.
• Bioactive glass bonds artificial limbs to bone.
• Flowformed titanium tubular products.
  by Scutti, James J.
• Polyurethane parts push snow, spread salt.
• Polymer replaces metal in rotor component for pumps.
• Paintless film for aircraft survives flight at Mach 1.8.
• Billet made by diffusion bonding P/M tungsten bars.
• Discovery of microwave effect may aid materials industry.
• Tougher emissions standards help copper charge air coolers.
• Software simulates and predicts corrosion in pipes.
• Aluminum 5xxx alloys flame brazed with noncorrosive flux.
• CAST IRON: The Engineered Metal.
  by O'Rourke, Robert
• 20 years ago...
• High-carbon cold-rolled steel replaces casting and forgings.
• Fluorite ceramics developed for nuclear waste storage.
• Precise high speed machining cuts cost of aluminum parts.
• Fiber-reinforced foam tailored for aircraft parts.
• ASM Committee/Council chairs named for 2000-2001 term.
• Engineered pitch-based carbon fibers provide higher modulus.
• Tin electrolyte cuts cost of plating sludge treatment.
• ASM International. http://www.asm-intl.org.
• Space processing of materials.
  by Hamill, Doris
• Steel bar to replace cast iron in auto crankshafts.
• Ball-grid array connectors contain liquid crystal resin.
• Laser sintering produces molds directly from data.
• Study predicts electronic effects in silicon nanowires.
• Domestic steel market squeezed by imports.
• Concept Hummer vehicles designed for steel by students.
• Electrochemical impedance spectroscopy detects water.
• Ferrite particles compounded with resins for magnetic pipe.
• Aziz I. Asphahani.
  by Halverstadt, Robert
• 60 years ago...