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We are pleased to welcome IMMI to EWI membership. IMMI develops, designs, tests, and manufactures safety restraints and systems for car seats, heavy trucks, school buses, recreational/off road, military, fire/EMS, motor coach, and construction vehicles. The privately owned company is headquartered in Westfield, Indiana, with seven additional global facilities. IMMI is also home to the...

EWI and MTI, developers of the new joining methodology low force friction welding, have continued a series of materials studies over the past year to qualify the new process for a variety of metals. A new paper by EWI Senior Technology Leader Jerry Gould, Application of Low Force Friction Welding to a 6061-T6 Aluminum Alloy,...

Combining aluminum and steel construction in vehicle manufacturing can offer great lightweighting and strength advantages. The formation of brittle intermetallic compounds (IMCs) in the joints between the materials, however, are known to impair performance.  Prediction of such intermetallic formation is often difficult to assess due to the rapid thermal cycles involved. A new technique for...