Technical

Working together with global Stainless Steel Materials’ experts, engineers and companies involved in the manufacture or use of stainless steels/CRAs, we provide here a selection of original, non-commercial articles. These in-depth technical papers are written or co-written by operating companies, describing commercially viable new technologies and case histories of successful applications, backed by data. Topics include tubes & pipes, cladding, offshore, chemical process industry, welding & fabrication, 13Cr stainless steels, titanium, nickel alloys, pulp & paper and duplex stainless steels.

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The power trio behind superior SAM performance

Optimize Scanning Acoustic Microscopy quality control with the right transducers, digitisers, and software.

Staying competitive with smart inspection

Rainer Semmler and Hermann SChubert, TÜV Süd, explain how acoustic testing may help locate potential emission problems early

Translating intuition into welding automation

Matthias Schaffitz, Wolfram Industrie, explains why interdisciplinary approaches are vital for the digitalisation of welding processes

Corrosion fatigue life toolkit

QuesTek will develop a digital toolkit that predicts the life of components affected by corrosion, pitting and fatigue

Inflated stainless steel profiles

NAWA Pavilion: mirror-polished 316 stainless arches that shift with light, a walkable fusion of art and architecture.

Stainless steel AISI 316 grade in the production of renewable energy

Srikumar Chakraborty reviews available options for renewable energy and highlights the role played by corrosion resistant alloys.

Nitrogen Rejection Units for greener gas extraction

Nitrogen Rejection Units play a crucial role in removing nitrogen from methane-rich gas streams

Hydropower upgrades in Malaysia

Voith and HeiTech have been awarded a contract to modernise the Temengor, Bersia, and Kenering hydropower plants

Quick fastener solution for IRTF

TNO developed an adaptive secondary mirror for NASA’s Infrared Telescope Facility (IRTF). BUMAX provided the fasteners.

Innovating alloy production: a single step from ores to sustainable metals

Yasmin Ahmed Salem, MPI-SusMat, explains how scientists at the Max Planck Institute have developed a new CO2-free production method for INVAR