Höganäs AB has launched PowdrIQ, an international challenge for university students to explore innovative applications for metal powders. Open to undergraduates, master’s, and PhD students, the challenge invites participants to identify new uses for metal powders in three key areas: sustainability, performance and efficiency, and market needs. An internal committee will evaluate submissions based on innovation, feasibility, sustainability impact, and industry relevance.

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Herausgeber FKM

The FKM Guideline “Analytical Strength Assessment of Components Made of Sintered Steels” is the first publicly available, engineer ready design rule dedicated to pressed and sintered steels. It is fully aligned with the established FKM framework for local, elastic stress assessment. It closes a long-standing gap: while wrought and cast steels are well covered, powder metallurgy (PM) components have lacked a coherent, validated assessment method.

A new metal AM aluminum alloy.
 

Massachusetts Institute of Technology (MIT) engineers have developed a printable aluminum alloy that can withstand high temperatures and is five times stronger than traditionally manufactured aluminum. The new printable metal is made from a mix of aluminum and other elements that the team identified using a combination of simulations and machine learning, which significantly pruned the number of possible combinations of materials to search through. While traditional methods would require simulating over 1 million possible combinations of materials, the team’s new machine learning-based approach needed only to evaluate 40 possible compositions before identifying an ideal mix for a high-strength, printable aluminum alloy.

Penn State University Associate Professor Guha Manogharan seeks to optimize the qualification process for AM parts

The Defense Advanced Research Projects Agency (DARPA) has awarded Penn State University, State College, Pennsylvania, $1.6 million to advance research in additive manufacturing (AM). Mechanical engineering Associate Professor Guha Manogharan, co-director of the Center for Innovative Materials Processing through Direct Digital Deposition (CIMP-3D), will lead the project as the principal investigator. The research will be conducted in collaboration with Southwest Research Institute, San Antonio, Texas.

Penn State University Associate Professor Guha Manogharan seeks to optimize the qualification process for AM parts

The Defense Advanced Research Projects Agency (DARPA) has awarded Penn State University, State College, Pennsylvania, $1.6 million to advance research in additive manufacturing (AM). Mechanical engineering Associate Professor Guha Manogharan, co-director of the Center for Innovative Materials Processing through Direct Digital Deposition (CIMP-3D), will lead the project as the principal investigator. The research will be conducted in collaboration with Southwest Research Institute, San Antonio, Texas.