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The first-ever Women in Welding Conference will be held on March 25, 2021. This virtual event, sponsored by AWS, features several women prominent in the welding industry who will share their career stories, successes, and challenges. The one-day program concludes with a panel discussion addressing specific topics that women in welding face. Nancy Porter EWI...

Aluminum alloys – strong, tough, and lightweight – are desirable materials for aerospace, marine, and defense applications. When processed using laser powder bed fusion, however, these alloys have a tendency to crack and distort. To mitigate this problem, EWI recently tested blending AA7075 with AlSi10Mg powder. The results show great promise for successful laser additive...

EWI, GE Research (GER), and the University of South Carolina (U of SC) have just begun a $5 million program funded by the Department of Energy in which machine learning is used to develop the process for building a functionally graded material for energy applications. The specific goal is to develop net-shape manufacturing technologies for...