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By Henry Cialone President & CEO, EWI Global climate change. International accords. Electric vehicles. Blue hydrogen. Green hydrogen. Carbon capture and storage. CO2 recycling. Carbon emissions trading. The news discusses these and many other energy-related issues, information, and ideas on a daily basis. It can be hard to keep up with what's new, what's possible,...

We are pleased to welcome U.S. Pipe, a Forterra company, to EWI membership. Headquartered in Alabama, the company specializes in the manufacturing of a broad line of ductile iron pipe products, fittings, and joint restraints used in drinking water and wastewater systems.

While spot weld performance has become easy to simulate in recent years, failure models for arc-welded sheet steel have never proved very reliable. Recently, EWI developed and tested a new approach to modeling failure of arc welds used in sheet-steel construction. The work is described in a paper by EWI associates Bill Mohr and Amin...