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In the Final Analysis

Jun 01, 2008; Robinson, James J ... "Many other nations have responded more swiftly to Gathering Storm's recommendations than the U.S. itself has." -Norman Augustine At the end of April, the U.S. National Academies convened a one-day symposium to take stock of progress made since the release of the seminal report ...

News & Update

Jun 01, 2008; Anonymous ... Items of Note from the Field, Profession, and Society Conceptual Design Reduces Energy in Aluminum Production Carbothermic reduction of aluminum could lead to energy savings and emissions reductions for the aluminum industry. N.A. Warner, emeritus professor at the U.K.'s ...

BUSINESSLINE

Jun 01, 2008; Anonymous ... News and Notes from Materials Industries DuPont: DuPont (Wiltnington. Delaware) will soon begin construction on a research center in Hong Kong and a manufacturing facility in Shenzhen to support the rapidly growing photovoltaic (PV) solar energy industry in China. The expansions in these ...

CORRECTION: TMS STUDENT AWARD WINNERS

Jun 01, 2008; Anonymous ... In the February issue of JOM's Professional Preface student newsletter insert, TMS Outstanding Student Paper Award Winner Alpesh Shukla, was misquoted. The editorial staff of JOM apologizes for this error. Below is Shukla's proper quote and award recognition: TMS Outstanding Student ...

MATERIALS TECHNOLOGY@TMS

Jun 01, 2008; Anonymous ... Al Materials Technology@TMS, an on-line community where materials professionals can discuss technical topics and exchange resources, each technical community reports the latest news from that area. Al JOM's press time, the following were some of the most recent news stories collected for each ...

WASHINGTON NEWS

Jun 01, 2008; Anonymous ... From Betsy Houston, Federation of Materials Societies Appropriations Bills Increasingly Unlikely: With the Congressional schedule growing tighter and tighter heading into the summer-including a week-long Memorial Day recess and after that, just under iwo months remaining until the ...

Steel and Science Bring Dinosaurs into the 21st Century at the Carnegie Museum of Natural History

Jun 01, 2008; Byko, Maureen ... INTRODUCTION For 60 years, a Tyrannosaurus rex stood tall in the Carnegie Museum of Natural History, its ancient bones posed awkwardly erect, more like a sharp-toothed kangaroo than a tyrant lizard king. The display made sense to paleontologists when it was erected. But science ...

Jones Selected as First Materials Societies Fellow

Jun 01, 2008; Anonymous ... A polymer expert with an interest in science policy development has been selected to receive the first annual Materials Societies Congressional Fellowship award. In September, Ticora V. Jones will begin her one-year fellowship working with Congressional staffers on science and engineering ...

Ravindra Develops Bat Mobile Exhibit for New Jersey Science Center

Jun 01, 2008; Anonymous ... This summer, visitors to the Liberty Science Center in New Jersey can become better baseball players through physics and materials. TMS Member Nuggehalli M. (Ravi) Ravindra, a professor in the Department of Physics at the New Jersey Institute of Technology, and a team of students have developed ...

STUDENTS NAMED NSF GRADUATE RESEARCH FELLOWS

Jun 01, 2008; Anonymous ... In April, the U.S. National Science Foundation (NSF) announced this year's class of Graduate Research Fellows in a wide range of science, technology, engineering, and mathematics (STEM) fields. Of the more than 900 students selected to receive this year's awards, ten are current members of the ...

Broadening of MSE: The Role of (and Challenges to) Professional Societies

Jun 01, 2008; Apelian, Diran ... In 1974, a distinguished committee chaired by the late Professor Morris Cohen (Massachusetts Institute of Technology) and William Baker (Bell Labs) carried out a survey of materials science and engineering (MSE) and provided an overview of the field known as the COSMAT report. They made specific ...

Biological Materials Science and Engineering: Biological Materials, Biomaterials, and Biomimetics

Jun 01, 2008; Meyers, M A; Hodge, A M; Roeder, R K ... This second issue of JOM dedicated to biological materials science in 2008 complements the March issue admirably. We remind the reader that the 'bio' field has three prominent components: biological materials-natural materials; biomaterials-synthetic materials used in a biological environment; ...

Structural Biological Materials: Overview of Current Research

Jun 01, 2008; Chen, P-Y; Lin, A Y-M; Stokes, A G; Seki, Y; Bodde, S G; McKittrick, J; Meyers, M A ... Through specific biological examples this article illustrates the complex designs that have evolved in nature to address strength, toughness, and weight optimization. Current research is reviewed, and the structure of some shells, bones, antlers, crab exoskeletons, and avion feathers and beaks ...

Aging and Fracture of Human Cortical Bone and Tooth Dentin

Jun 01, 2008; Koester, Kurt J; Ager, Joel W III; Ritchie, Robert O ... Mineralized tissues, such as bone and tooth dentin, serve as structural materials in the human body and, as such, have evolved to resist fracture. In assessing their quantitative fracture resistance or toughness, it is important to distinguish between intrinsic toughening mechanisms, which ...

Aging and Loading Rate Effects on the Mechanical Behavior of Equine Bone

Jun 01, 2008; Kulin, Robb M; Jiang, Fengchun; Vecchio, Kenneth S ... Whether due to a sporting accident, high-speed impact, fall, or other catastrophic event, the majority of clinical bone fractures occur under dynamic loading conditions. However, although extensive research has been performed on the quasi-static fracture and mechanical behavior of bone to date, ...

The Development of Biocomposite Nanofibers for Tissue Scaffolding Applications

Jun 01, 2008; Zhang, Y Z; Lim, C T ... The last decade has seen significant progress in the production of nanoflbers by electrospinning. One of the major drivers to this progress is the potential use ofnanofibrous structures as scaffolds for engineering tissues in regenerative medicine. Electrospun fibers are capable of emulating the ...

The Nanoindentation of Soft Tissue: Current and Developing Approaches

Jun 01, 2008; Franke, Oliver; Göken, Mathias; Hodge, Andrea M ... Mechanical testing of biological materials is a continuously developing field that requires the testing of hierarchical structures. This article discusses the use of nanoindentation as a valuable tool for assessing multiple length scales as well as parts of complex biological systems. The ...

Porous Ceramic Scaffolds with Complex Architectures

Jun 01, 2008; Munch, E; Franco, J; Deville, S; Hunger, P; Saiz, E; Tomsia, A P ... This work compares Two novel techniques for the fabrication of ceramic scaffolds for bone tissue engineering with complex porosity: robocasting and freeze casting. Both techniques are based on the preparation of concentrated ceramic suspensions with suitable properties for the process, in ...

TMS Foundation News

Jun 01, 2008; Anonymous ... 2008 TMS Technical Division Student Poster Contest: TMS Rewards Quality Student Research with Cash and Travel "To support the development of materials professionals within the context of our global society. " Presenting student research at a professional conference has a number ...

Lead-Free and Lead-Bearing Electronic Solders: Implementation, Reliability, and New Technology

Jun 01, 2008; Kao, C Robert ... Twenty months after the banning of lead in electrical and electronic equipment by the European Union through the RoHS Directive1 (Restriction of the use of certain Hazardous Substances in electrical and electronic equipment directive), lead-free electrical and electronic products have been in ...