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  1. NIST updates earthquake standard for steel column used in buildings

    Jan
    18
    2022
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    The National Institute of Standards and Technology (NIST) and the University of California San Diego have proposed targeted updates to the AISC 341 standard on seismic provisions for structural steel buildings. The specialist engineers have identified certain deficiencies in the performance of steel beams that were otherwise compliant with the existing standard, which caused them […]

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  3. The Complexity of Re-Purposing The Steel Border Walls

    Dec
    28
    2021
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    Former U.S. President Donald Trump’s vision for raising an impermeable border in the south has failed to realize, but not before a whopping $16.4 billion was spent in funding the barrier construction. Now, hundreds of thousands of steel bollards, each costing about $9,000, lie in piles at various locations, rusting, creating an environmental hazard, and […]

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  4. Researchers Presented Self-Healing Anti-Corrosive Coating for Steel

    Dec
    20
    2021
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    Steel is a very resilient material in general, but when it comes to subjecting it to harsh environments like seawater, you need to apply an anti-corrosive coating or it will rust pretty quickly. Researchers at the Rice University in Houston have tested a novel insulating material made out of sulfur and selenium and found that […]

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  5. New Steel Alloy Can Kill The COVID-19 Virus in Under Six Hours

    Dec
    14
    2021
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    Researchers at the University of Hong Kong have developed a novel type of stainless steel alloy that kills the COVID-19 virus within six hours. More specifically, the steel can deactivate 99.75% of the virus in three hours and reach a final 99.99% in six. This anti-pathogen steel would be ideal for surfaces that come into […]

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  7. Scientists Created a Novel Titanium Alloy By Means of 3D Printing

    Nov
    30
    2021
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    3D printing or additive manufacturing may be generally known as a “shaping technology,” but as scientists at the City University of Hong Kong proved, it can be much more than that. The team of Chinese engineers successfully developed a novel titanium alloy by using a 3D printer to design the microstructures of the material, ending […]

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  9. New Testing Tool can Detect Thermoacoustic Combustion Oscillations

    Nov
    22
    2021
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    Thermoacoustic combustion oscillations (TCO) are the peril of internal combustion engines, but detecting the phenomenon in time and taking targeted action to stop and reverse it has remained a complicated case. A team of engineers from the Tokyo University of Science and the Japan Aerospace Exploration Agency (JAXA) have developed a promising tool that detects […]

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  11. Engineers Find a Speedy Way to Produce Aluminum 7075

    Nov
    01
    2021
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    A team of material engineers in the Pacific Northwest National Laboratory, in Washington, have developed a novel manufacturing method for aluminum 7075, an alloy that is highly valued in the industry but one that is notoriously hard to extrude and very costly to make. The high cost derives from the inadequacy of conventional extrusion methods, […]

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  12. 150-Year-Old Steel Mill Converted to Use Exclusively Solar Power

    Oct
    28
    2021
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    The EVRAZ Rocky Mountain Steel factory, a 150-year-old steel mill, is going to become the first in the world to get the energy it needs for production operations almost exclusively through solar power. The project was supported by Lightsource (EVRAZ sub-brand) and BP who commissioned a 300-megawatt solar farm on the EVRAZ property, using no […]

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  13. Can Corrosion on Metals Actually Increase Durability?

    Oct
    18
    2021
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    Rust is a sign of reaction taking place on the surface of metals, and usually, it is invasive and corrosive, so engineers intervene to stop it from eating and etching the metal. That is except for the protective film that is formed on some types of steel, used predominately in construction. But what happens with […]

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  14. China’s Steel Production Dips and Sends Ripples Across the World

    Oct
    06
    2021
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    China’s steelmakers are shutting down their mills due to power rationing that was introduced by the government as a measure to mitigate power-cut problems. The Asian superpower has been having trouble balancing electric power supply and demand lately, and some provinces have experienced highly disruptive outages. This hasn’t left steel production unaffected, and considering that […]

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  15. Researchers Created a Novel “Tube-in-Tube” Heat Exchanger Model

    Sep
    21
    2021
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    Researchers at the University of Illinois Urbana-Champaign have used recent technology advancements to explore the new possibilities in the field of heat exchange, and the published results were vindicating. The team used metal 3D printing to build an ultra-compact unit that follows the “tube-in-tube” approach, and with massive optimizations on all possible points, they derived […]

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  17. Novel Dual-Phase Alloy Is Promising Extreme Resistance to Fractures

    Aug
    28
    2021
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    An international team of researchers has created a novel dual-phase alloy that is extremely resistant to fracturing, thus making it ideal for deployment in a wide range of critical applications. Moreover, its discovery opens up the way to developing similar focused-purpose alloys that could feature other, equally impressive physical characteristics and mechanical properties. The new […]

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  18. Machine Learning AI Is Used for the First Time to Predict Stainless Steel Behavior in Fittings

    Aug
    26
    2021
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    Researchers at the University of Illinois Urbana-Champaign became the first ever to deploy machine learning AI tools to evaluate the performance and behavior of different batches of stainless steel material under any circumstance. Not all stainless steel pieces are made equal, and when it comes to extreme applications, even the tiniest disparities in molecular structure […]

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  19. EV Garage in Sweden Gets Colorful Aerated Facade Made of PV Panels

    Aug
    20
    2021
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    The Stockholm-based solar energy expert ‘Soltech Energy’ has completed yet another impressive project, building a facade in a garage in Sweden which hosts 300 EV charging points. The facade consists of 1,096 photovoltaic (PV) panels which are colorful and make up for a decorative result close to the style of Viola Gråsten. The installation of […]

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  20. 10 Facts About the Nickel Element

    May
    03
    2021
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    Nickel (NI) is among the most abundant materials on Earth. It’s also among the most widely used material on the planet. Most nickel is located in the planet’s core, more than 1800 miles beneath the Earth’s crust. A silvery-white material with a slight gold tinge, nickel has a relative atomic mass of 58.69, a density of 8.9g […]

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