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Startup enables 100-year bridges with corrosion-resistant steel
Published: November 12, 2025
Allium Engineering, Billerica, Mass., founded by two MIT PhDs, is tripling the lifetime of bridges and other structures with a new technology that uses a stainless steel cladding to make rebar resilient to corrosion.
NIST finds Florida condo collapse started in pool deck
Published: September 12, 2025
Flaws in the pool deck are thought to be the preliminary cause of the devastating collapse of a condominium in Surfside, Florida, that killed 98. Recent test results by the National Institute of Standards and Technology (NIST), the agency leading the investigation of the 2021 tragedy, reinforces the theory that the failure started in the pool deck area rather than in the tower itself. NIST released new findings this week.
Testing of laser ablation for removal of coatings, corrosion looks promising
Published: August 14, 2025
Using lasers to remove coatings and corrosion from U.S. naval vessels may soon become a reality based on recent testing conducted by Shop 71 at the Puget Sound Naval Shipyard & Intermediate Maintenance Facility in Bremerton, Wash.
Chevron announces root cause of Bishop Well incident
Published: August 14, 2025
Chevron Corp., Houston, Texas, has completed a root cause analysis of the Bishop well incident that happened near Galeton, Colorado, in April, saying equipment assembly errors and inadequate fluid barriers contributed to the blowout.
Bearing failure analysis identifies lubrication issues at South African sugar refinery
Published: May 08, 2025
SKF, Sweden, and Bearings Services Durban, South Africa, conducted a collaborative bearing failure analysis at Tongaat Hulett’s sugar refinery in Durban, South Africa, identifying inadequate lubrication as the root cause of rolling contact fatigue and providing corrective measures to prevent future failure.
ESi expands footprint with new office in New Jersey
Published: May 08, 2025
Engineering Systems Inc., Aurora, Ill., expanded its Northeast presence by opening a new office in Lincoln Park, New Jersey, enhancing its ability to serve clients in the tri-state area with direct access to its nationwide network of experts and laboratories.
Bruker Introduces eWARP, a pioneering new EBSD detector for advanced materials characterization in scanning electron microscopes
Published: May 08, 2025
Bruker, Billerica, Mass., launched eWARP, a new electron backscatter diffraction detector that combines direct electron detection and CMOS technologies to provide the fastest and most signal-efficient materials characterization in scanning electron microscopes.
SwRI provides rapid response to address critical aging aircraft issue
Published: May 08, 2025
Southwest Research Institute, San Antonio, Texas, collaborated with the U.S. Air Force to enhance fleet safety by developing advanced risk and damage tolerance analyses that led to a more effective inspection schedule for the T-38 Talon-helping detect cracks before they become critical.
Examining recoater damage: How Alloyed is addressing the challenge
Published: February 13, 2025
Phase3D, Chicago, Ill., is working with commercial part manufacturer, Alloyed in the UK, to characterize part and build quality and determine how anomalies in a build cause defects in a part using the Fringe in-situ inspection system.
Shenango engineering faculty to explore fatigue behaviors in 3D-printed material
Published: February 13, 2025
The U.S. National Science Foundation awarded $445,515 to a team including researchers at Penn State Shenango, Sharon, Pa., and Youngstown State University, Youngstown, Ohio, to explore the fatigue behavior of 3D-printed materials.
