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EWI — On a Roll!

2014 has started off with a bang here at EWI! First, being chosen  to start a new advanced manufacturing facility in Western New York state. Then, a new venture with Kentucky’s C&W group to commercialize newly-developed manufacturing technologies. And this week, the White House announcement of the award to run ALMMII, the new lightweight modern […]

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Composite to Metal Joining: Engineered Bonded Systems

This is a Technical Brief written by Dr. George Ritter, Principal Engineer in our Materials group. George can be contacted at 614.688.5199 or [email protected]. You can view George’s bio here.  If you are interested in this article, you may also be interested in another article on lightweighting. Composites as Structural Materials Composites provide directed, purposeful stress management […]

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Lighten Up – Joining Technology for Lightweighting

Lightweighting is an important focus for design folks in the automotive and aerospace worlds. Reducing the weight of a vehicle helps to improve fuel economy and reducing the weight of an airplane additionally enables more cargo to be carried. Magnesium-Aluminum-Zinc (Mg-Al-Zn) alloys have the highest strength to weight ratios of structural metals. AZ31B (Mg-3Al-1Zn) is […]

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