Advanced Materials & Processes

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Articles in May 2003 issue of Advanced Materials & Processes

• Commercial tiltrotor aircraft has successful first flight.(METALS)
• Laser ultrasonics shows image of microscopic cracks.(TESTING/ANALYSIS)
• Tube welding process joins tubes to tubes, sheet, solids.(WELDING/JOINING)
• Thin wall titanium structural castings: the development of thin-wall titanium castings was part of the Metals Affordability Initiative begun in 1999 by the air force research laboratory as an effort to reduce the cost of manufacturing metal components for
  by Lee, David
• X-ray analysis systems.(Preview of exhibits)
• Contract manufacturing.(Preview of exhibits)
• High-strength aluminum extrusion alloy.
  by Gheorghe, Iulian
• AeroMat 2003; "a history and vision of aerospace materials: past, present and future".(ASM News)
• Pastimes.
• Precoated aluminum coil stock drawn into bottle can.(METALS)
• DNA-modified diamond films detect biological agents.(TESTING/ANALYSIS)
• Transient liquid phase bonding developed for TiAl.(WELDING/JOINING)
• Uncertainty in hardness testing, Part II: uncertainty equations enable the calculation of critical uncertainties in hardness measurements. Part I (April AM & P) provided the equations and showed the steps to calculating uncertainties. Part II provides
  by Tobolski, Ed
• Materials data management.(Preview of exhibits)
• Vacuum heat treating.(Preview of exhibits)
• Temperature, force, and power in friction stir welding.
  by Chao, Y.J.
• IMS 2003 comes to San Antonio.(ASM News)
• Calendar.(Calendar)
• Ultrasonic inspection tank finds defects in engine disks.(TESTING/ANALYSIS)
• Tin and zinc active solders join advanced materials.(WELDING/JOINING)
• SR-71 Blackbird: the SR-71 Blackbird is a long-range, high-altitude, supersonic-cruise reconnaissance platform, and one of the most spectacular aircraft ever built.(Cover Story)
  by Merlin, Peter W.
• Rapid prototyping.(Preview of exhibits)
• Heat treating/brazing.(Preview of exhibits)
• Hardfacing Solutions CD-ROM.
• Join us at ASM Chapter Leadership Days.(ASM News)
• Centennial of Flight.(EDITORIAL)
  by Hunt, Margaret W.
• Water injection molding cuts PBT cycle time by 50%.(POLYMERS/CERAMICS)
• Shearography NDT system enables real-time strain test.(TESTING/ANALYSIS)
• Ion fusion formation makes aerospace parts to net shape.(FORMING/PROCESSING)
• Metal Injection Molding.(TECH SPOTLIGHT)
  by Deming, David
• Electron microscopes.(Preview of exhibits)
• Surface enhancement.(Preview of exhibits)
• Environmental test chambers.
• ASM president visits Ontario Chapter.(ASM News)
• Producing the British proof sovereign.(OF MATERIAL INTEREST)
• Plastic laminate provides high-quality paint surface.(POLYMERS/CERAMICS)
• Nanolayers of PTFE coat materials against water.(SURFACE ENGINEERING)
• Compcasting process cuts cost to mold nylon structures.(FORMING/PROCESSING)
• Profile ring rolling: new techniques have been developed to lower the cost and improve the buy-to-fly ratio of rings and cases in aerospace engines through advances in preform design and processing.
  by De Souza, Urban
• Jet engine castings.(Preview of exhibits)
• Mechanical testing, research.(Preview of exhibits)
• New X-ray diffraction system.
• Recipients of the 2003 ASM Student Chapter Grants selected.(ASM News)
• Ultrahigh-strength steel offers high corrosion resistance.(METALS)
• Thermoplastic elastomer becomes ceramic in flames.(POLYMERS/CERAMICS)
• Intense acoustic beams make selective plating possible.(SURFACE ENGINEERING)
• Die casting project extends life of dies for aluminum.(FORMING/PROCESSING)
• Aerospace materials: past, present, future; Celebrate the centennial of flight at AeroMat 2003, June 9-12 in Dayton, Ohio, home of the Wright brothers.
• Sensors for NDE.(Preview of exhibits)
• Materials and product testing.
• Two exciting events this fall to bring best of ASM to Indy and Pittsburgh.(ASM News)
• Attention students: two student paper contests announced.(ASM News)
• Austempered ductile iron is machinable, has high strength.(METALS)
• Ceramic net shapes formed from metal-bearing precursors.(POLYMERS/CERAMICS)
• Magnetic annealing tool developed for MRAM wafers.(SURFACE ENGINEERING)
• High-velocity impacts change [B.sub.4]C ceramic crystals to glass.(MATERIALS SCIENCE/R & D)
• AeroMat 2003 exhibitors.
• Laser peening services.(Preview of exhibits)
• Extensometers.
• ASM Pune Chapter hosts international materials conference.(ASM News)
• Materials and Processes for Medical Devices Conference.(ASM News)
• International Metallographic Contest deadline approaches.(ASM News)
• ASM Los Angeles Chapter examines amorphous metals.(ASM News)
• Silicon-graphite anodes made for lithium ion batteries.(METALS)
• Robots position fibers on preforms to build composites.(POLYMERS/CERAMICS)
• Three-story blast room doubles as paint center.(SURFACE ENGINEERING)
• Software developed to manage aerospace data.(MATERIALS SCIENCE/R & D)
• Net-shape titanium parts.(Preview of exhibits)
• AeroMat 2003: Program-at-a-Glance.
• Pressure indicating sensor films.
• ASM conference calendar.(ASM News)(Calendar)
• Robert C. Uhl.(In Memoriam)
• Chromium-moly-boron steel is case-hardenable, forgeable.(METALS)
• PET resin reduces cost and weight in auto wiper bracket.(POLYMERS/CERAMICS)
• ASM International.(World Web Watch)
• Software tool cuts time for FEA of advanced materials.(MATERIALS SCIENCE/R & D)
• Environmental test chambers.(Preview of exhibits)
• Testing solutions.(Preview of exhibits)
• Aeromat 2003 Conference and Exposition.
• A member's voice; ASM 2002: the year in review.(ASM News)
  by Muzyka, Donald R.