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Recovery grants help many small business owners stay afloat RITA LEBLEU, Lake Charles American Press May 15, 2021 FacebookTwitterEmail LAKE CHARLES, La. (AP) The Southwest Louisiana Economic Development Alliance has helped over 100 small businesses through its Pathway to Small Business Recovery grant. The program was initially made possible by a $150,000 seed grant from Sempra Energy foundation. The Community Foundation of Southwest Louisiana donated the second round of funds, and Cheniere Foundation donated $100,000 for the third round. Tina Higgins, Cruise Planners, is a full-service travel agent that plans cruises and land travel. Like more than 300 others, she did not receive the $3,000 grant when she submitted her application the first time around, but those applicants were considered during the next funding cycle. ....
(Q&A) The evolution of automotive metals and materials Mining company Rio Tinto started building the world s largest scandium oxide plant in Canada in January, renewing the global focus on scandium s potential applications in lightweight aluminium alloys. Argus spoke with David Weiss, vice-president of research and development at US-based Eck Industries, a producer of premium aluminium castings, about why and how structural materials are evolving. Edited highlights follow: A passenger car has tens of thousands of parts and a commercial plane has millions. The materials used are constantly evolving, what is the most important factor for change? Fuel efficiency for the past 20, 30, 40 years it has been the same overriding factor for automotive and aerospace. In the 1960s and 1970s cars were produced with a lot of iron. They worked fine but they were heavy and when fuel prices rose they had to change. Weight is even more important in aerospace and they were th ....
AFS Announces Additions to Board of Directors for 2021-2022 The American Foundry Society, North America’s largest and most influential metalcasting association, today announced its officers and new board members for 2021-2022.
As President, Mike Lenahan, president of KB Foundry Services in Independence, Ohio. As Vice President, Adam San Solo, director of sales and engineering at U.S. Foundry & Manufacturing Company in Medley, Florida. As 2nd Vice President, Bradford Muller, vice president of marketing at Charlotte Pipe & Foundry in Charlotte, North Carolina. As Immediate Past President, Peter Reich, director at LaempeReich, in Trussville, Alabama. Together with the CEO, Doug Kurkul, they comprise the Society’s Executive Committee. ....
ORNL team performs first neutron diffraction experiments on a running engine Researchers at Oak Ridge National Laboratory (ORNL) have used neutron diffraction to provide noninvasive measurement of lattice strains inside components of a firing engine, thereby enabling the operando study of complex load states and thermal gradients throughout the solid materials. Their results are published in an open-access paper in Proceedings of the National Academy of Sciences (PNAS). Engineering neutron diffraction can nondestructively and noninvasively probe stress, strain, temperature, and phase evolutions deep within bulk materials. In this work, we demonstrate operando lattice strain measurement of internal combustion engine components by neutron diffraction. ....
E-Mail IMAGE: Oak Ridge National Laboratory is designing a neutronic research engine to evaluate new materials and designs for advanced vehicles using the facilities at the Spallation Neutron Source at ORNL. view more Credit: Jill Hemman/ORNL, U.S. Dept of Energy, and the Southwest Research Institute. EMBARGOED UNTIL MONDAY, DECEMBER 21, 2020, 3 PM US EASTERN. In the quest for advanced vehicles with higher energy efficiency and ultra-low emissions, Oak Ridge National Laboratory researchers are accelerating a research engine that gives scientists and engineers an unprecedented view inside the atomic-level workings of combustion engines in real time. The new capability is an engine built specifically to run inside a neutron beam line. This neutronic engine provides a unique sample environment that allows investigation of structural changes in new alloys designed for the environment of a high-temperature, advanced combustion engine operating in r ....