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Aerospace Materials News

Radiation-Resistant NRAM Carbon Nanotube-Based Memory Tested on Recent Space Shuttle Mission

AZoM Puts The Materials World in The Palm of Your Hand with The New iPhone App AZoM.com is pleased to announce the launch of the AZoM.com ‘App’ for the Apple iPhone™ Available for free download by searching for “AZoM” or “Materials” through the iTunes App Store. Full Story

flydubai Aircraft to get Carbon Brakes from Goodrich

Stork Helps Clients Meet Emissions Regulations The State of Texas has recently stepped up enforcement of existing air pollution regulations concerning the control of emissions due to degassing or cleaning of stationary, marine and transport vessels (which includes storage tanks), as specified in 30TAC 115, Subchapter F. The degassing / cleaning rules are contained in Section 115.541, and require companies which perform these tasks to verify and to provide documentation that their vapor control systems maintain a 90% volatile organic hydrocarbon vapor destruction removal efficiency (VOC DRE). Full Story

The Search is on for Improved Pressure Suit Gloves for Astronauts

Experts Show How Laser Diffraction and Morphological Imaging Help Develop Powders for Inhalers At Drug Delivery to the Lungs 20 (DDL 20), which takes place from 9 to 11 December 2009, in Edinburgh, Scotland, specialists from Malvern Instruments will present the results of work undertaken in collaboration with the Helsinki University of Technology. Their study highlights the application of laser diffraction particle size analysis and morphological imaging in the development of dry powder inhalers, using the Malvern Spraytec and Morphologi G3 systems respectively. Full Story

Malvern Expert to Speak at Particle Sizing Conference in December

ELGA Surface Treatment Plants Get Ceramic Membrane Technology ELGA Process Water’s new range of membrane plant for the surface treatment industries feature CeraMem® industrial strength ceramic membranes. Full Story

Alcoa Look to Provide Technology for Chinese Built Commercial Aircraft Alcoa (NYSE:AA) and Commercial Aircraft Corporation of China Ltd. (COMAC) today announced they are jointly exploring leading technology solutions for the design and development of China’s new, large passenger jet, the C919. Full Story

Sypris Sell Test and Measurement Business to Concentrate on Aerospace and Defence

Morgan Technical Ceramics Pioneers New Flow Modelling Technique for Ceramic Cores

$6.5 million Grant to Develop Improved Electric Propulsion Systems for Satellites Researchers at the Georgia Institute of Technology have won a $6.5 million grant to develop improved components that will boost the efficiency of electric propulsion systems used to control the positions of satellites and planetary probes. Full Story

Nanoparticle Electric Propulsion Rocket Thrusters Show Great Promise for Spacecraft A University of Michigan professor is developing an electric rocket thruster, NanoFET, that uses nanoparticle electric propulsion and enables spacecraft to travel faster and with less propellant than previous technology allowed. Full Story

Automation Upgrade Returns Aerospace Gear Hobber to Reliable Production Automation upgrade specialists MasterControls Inc. and Southern Technical Services have jointly retrofitted a Gleason 782 gear hobber with a new CNC control system from NUM. The machine is used by a large aerospace components manufacturer in Chihuahua, Mexico, to produce spur, helical and crown gears with complex profiles. Prior to the retrofit, the machine's control system had become increasingly unreliable, resulting in high maintenance overhead and unacceptable downtime. Full Story

Timken Expand Offerings for the Aerospace Industry

Goodrich to Develop Next Generation Lean Burn Nozzles for Rolls Royce

Renishaw Release New Ballbar System Renishaw has announced the launch of a successor to its well established QC10 ballbar system; a tool adopted worldwide for the assessment of machine tool positioning and servo control performance. Full Story

Unison Supplies Another Electric Tube Bending Machine to Boeing Unison has supplied a second all-electric tube bending machine to Boeing Integrated Defense Systems. The order for the machine came just two years after Unison delivered the first system. Full Story

New range of Low Cost Polystyrene Reagent Reservoirs from Porvair Sciences Porvair Sciences Ltd. has announced a new range of low cost, disposable polystyrene reagent reservoirs. Optional lids help prevent reagent contamination and spillage as well as enabling reservoirs to be simply stacked economising on use of valuable bench space. Full Story

GKN Aerospace Purchase Industrial Microwave for Processing of Composites