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Secat, Inc.
1505 Bull Lea Road
Lexington, KY 40511
TEL: (859) 514-4989
FAX: (859) 514-4988
Email: info@secat.net
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With January behind us, we are all back into our routines after the holidays. After a restful holiday, Secat staff have been busy with a number of interesting projects affecting our business and the Aluminum industry. Here is a summary of these activities as well as industry news for your review.
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| Industry News |
TMS 2003 Annual Meeting:
Aluminum, Aluminum Everywhere!
March 2-6, 2003 at the San Diego Convention Center
Traditionally a fairly "aluminum-intensive" technical meeting, this year's edition of the TMS Annual Meeting will be especially so. [MORE...]
SAE: Automotive Aluminum…and More
The SAE 2003 Congress, perhaps the pre-eminent automotive technology conference, has a new look, although decidedly less aluminum-intensive. A review of the aluminum-related presentations planned there, along with a survey of other resources available through SAE International, is the subject of this article. [MORE...]
U.S. Energy Requirements for the Aluminum Industry
The Department of Energy has released their report "U.S. Energy Requirements for Aluminum Production: Historical Perspective, Theoretical Limits and New Opportunities", which provides comprehensive statistical data from 1960 to 2000 for the evaluation of energy trends and issues in the aluminum industry. [READ REPORT...] |
| Student & University News |
U. of Kentucky Gains Valuable Recycling Technology
Three patents have been transferred from Cargill, Inc. to U. of Kentucky Research Foundation (UKRF). These patents cover methods to more efficiently recycle aluminum using salt flux technology. UKRF was chosen due to the work done by the UK Center for Aluminum Technology. [READ MORE...] |
| Secat Corporate News |
Secat Plays Key Role in Aerospace Materials Consortium
Secat has joined a major Aerospace consortium, The Materials Data Management Consortium (MDMC). MDMC was formed in June 2002 and comprises major players in the US aerospace industry who have joined forces to develop software systems to manage their in-house materials data. [READ MORE...]
Secat and ASM International Sign Memorandum of Understanding
Secat, Inc. and ASM International have signed a Memorandum of Understanding to cooperate in the area of education related to aluminum technology. [READ MORE...] |
| Technical Articles Posted |
47 Articles Posted to Aluminum Answers
Thanks to the support of the Aluminum Association, Secat has now posted an additional 47 Technical Articles to it's Aluminum Answers collection. Included in these are a number of book reviews as well. Rather than include the complete list in this newsletter, please go to Aluminum Answers to see the expanded list.
In addition, the following new articles were posted:
Challenges Come to the Surface in Direct Chill Casting
Balancing productivity, safety, and surface quality in the production of direct chill cast ingot has been the focus of much development work in the industry. Through combined metallurgical understanding and process innovation along with equipment and automation advances, the ability to make increasingly larger ingots from a range of aluminum alloys with reduced scalping requirements and higher recovery is being realized. What's going on at the ingot surface is critical. [READ MORE...]
Extrusion Tooling Resources to "Die" For
Tooling that is properly designed, manufactured, and maintained will assist in maintaining the highest quality extrusions while achieving maximum productivity and yields. A publication that serves as both a starting point as well as concise summary is the recently issued Extrusion Dies and Tooling Manual: Recommended Handling and Maintenance. [READ MORE...]
New Book Addresses Needs for Stress-Strain Data
You may find it surprising that some people actually find value in stress and strain at work. More specifically, I'm referring to the primary method of representing the mechanical response of materials, their stress-strain curve. Stress-strain curves are important to designers in predicting the mechanical performance of their structure as well as to manufacturing engineers who want to know whether a material can be formed into a desired shape. With the increasingly common use of computational modeling to predict performance, stress-strain curves become a vital bit of technical information. Even with that being the case, finding stress-strain curve data for a wide range of alloys has been difficult unless you generated the results in your own lab. [READ MORE...]
Where Do Those "AA" Designations Come From?
Identified by colors from an alternative rainbow, the AA Registration Record Series provide some of the most basic product specifications for materials in the aluminum industry. With the Aluminum Association's publication in October 2002 of the revised "Teal Sheets" (a.k.a. the International Alloy Designations and Chemical Composition Limits for Wrought Aluminum and Wrought Aluminum Alloys), it's a good time to take a look at the source of the designations that are used every day. [READ MORE...]
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