What do gears, bearings, and shafts have in common? For one thing, they're often made out of steel. For another, they're subject to a failure mode known as rolling contact fatigue. Rolling contact ...

Cryogenic hardening can help transform the austenite found in traditional heat-treated steel into martensite, a more hardened variant. That means you will have a metal with fewer imperfections and ...

During the production of a metal, the manufacturing process is marked by careful regulation of the mechanical properties of the wrought metal. However, these may undergo change later on when the ...

ATOM Media 31 January 2024 11:54 Specialists of NPO TSNIITMASH (part of the engineering division of Rosatom) have developed and patented a new method for obtaining a wear-resistant coating of the ...

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Russian state corporation Rosatom says that for the first time it has used its own technology for laser strengthening of steel in the manufacturing of rotor parts of turbine pumps for nuclear power ...

Following the boom conditions of the past decade, the crisis-induced slowdown of the past few years has not disturbed the sector so much. Instead, striving to keep pace with demand, the rise of ...

Engineers in Germany are working on a new steel hardening process that they claim holds promise for the development of downsized car engines. The team, from the Karlsruhe Institute of Technology (KIT) ...