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30th
August
2010

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  • Shipbuilding Steels: Part One
    Various shipbuilding requirements, such as reduction in welding man-hours, shortening of welding lines, elimination of cutting steps, stabilization of fabricated part quality and reduction in control costs, have been met by developing TMCP high-strength steels that require no preheating for welding ...
  • Increasing the Efficiency on ERW/HFI Tube Mills: Part Two
    This article describes possible weld faults and causes for customers rejections and noncompliance, and technical details of non-contact optical measurement, as an in-process solution for these problems.
  • Automotive Uses of Magnesium Alloys: Part Two
    The best opportunity for wrought magnesium in the body is the use of extrusions on primary structures, such as space frames. In power train, magnesium castings are replacing some of the iron and even aluminum castings in some housings and covers.
  • Hardening of Al-Mg-Cu alloys: Part One
    Age hardening of three commercial purity Al-Cu-Mg alloys is described. For all alloys, 99.90 wt% of aluminum was used as base to ensure comparable, low impurity contents, and Fe and Si contents of the alloys are expected to be between 0.02 and 0.04 wt%.

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Manufacturing, Processing and Casting of Metals

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Corrosion Behavior

Material Testing and Fatigue

Applications of Metallic Materials

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