2018 Gifkins Lecture
“Martensite in steel - hard or soft?” The 2018 Gifkins Lecture will be preceded by the Annual General Meeting of the Victorian & Tasmanian Branch of Materials Australia.
15th March 2018
Fighting Corrosion | The cutting edge of conservation science
Dr Schofield is working with PhD student Hayley Simon from UCL Institute of Archaeology and Diamond Light Source. Diamond is the UK's national synchrotron and offers many non-destructive techniques that can be used to unlock the secrets of ancient treasures and explore ways to conserve artefacts ranging from ancient scrolls, bones, woods, paintings and materials to maritime treasures like The Mary Rose, the famous Tudor Ship sunk in 1545 and raised from the sea in 1982.
13th March 2018
ACA New Zealand News Bulletin | March 2018
ACA NZ BRANCH ANNUAL GENERAL MEETING 2018 The NZ Branch of ACA invites you to attend the Branch AGM, to be held on Thursday 22nd March 2018 at The Surrey Hotel in Grey Lynn. The Branch AGM will be held at 6pm, following refreshments from 5.30pm in the lounge. The AGM is to be held...
8th March 2018
Member Profile | Paul larkin
Name – Paul Larkin Company – SMEC Position – Engineer – Materials Technology What does your role entail and what does your company do? As part of the Materials Technology Team at SMEC I undertake condition assessment inspections, and assist in developing repair specifications for various infrastructure assets around South-East Queensland. The team assesses water...
8th March 2018
Newcastle ACA branch site tour of Amorgalv
The Newcastle ACA branch had a site tour of Amorgalv as its first event for 2018, with 20 members attending. Wayne Sharman, the General Manager of Armorgalv, gave us an understanding of the Armorgalv process and the differences to hot dip galvanising, and the different applications that Armorgalv may be used for. We then had...
8th March 2018
Corrosion & Materials | February 2018
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1st March 2018
Corrosion in Airbags | 2.3 Million Australian Cars Recalled
Corrosion by the ammonium nitrate in the gas cylinders used in Airbags since 1999 has resulted in shrapnel being propelled through a vehicle when the canister deploys the airbag. This has resulted in at least 23 deaths More than 14 million vehicles with the Takata-made airbags have been recalled worldwide over concern that they can...
1st March 2018
Flint Michigan | A Story of Corrosion
The Flint Water Crisis has been rolling for many years now. The enquiry is continuing with new information coming available as to how an Entire towns water supply became undrinkable. Water Supply changed to save money Detroit Water had supplied the water and had exceeded the EPA requirements for corrosion control for copper and lead...
26th February 2018
Probing the mysteries of cracks and stresses | MIT Research
New research from the Massachusetts Institute of Technology could ultimately help explain phenomena as varied as the breakdown of concrete under sudden stress and the effects of corrosion on various metal surfaces. The team analyzed how the strength of a material can increase quite abruptly as the rate of strain applied to the material increases. This...
22nd February 2018
Corroded wires lead to 600 underground fires in New York?
New York City fire officials say corrosion in underground electrical cables led to a chain-reaction fire that destroyed two cars near manholes. Nobody was hurt in this rolling explosion This is not an isolated incident with almost 600 fires caused by corrosion of electrical systems being reported in just February. According to ConEdison (a major...
21st February 2018
Researchers discover efficient and economically sustainable way to filter salt and metal ions from water
This article has been seen around the web for the last few days. We had a look around and found that you can have a read of the original paper” Ultrafast selective transport of alkali metal ions in metal organic frameworks with subnanometer pores” free of charge from Science Advances Monash Media Release With two billion...
13th February 2018
Member Profile | Jim Hickey
What does your role entail and what does your company/Institution’s department do? I manage all of Ausgrid’s electrolysis corrosion responsibilities which include testing and analysis of interference from corrosion protection systems throughout the Sydney, Central Coast and Hunter Regions. Since Ausgrid is the local Energy provider, we have numerous underground assets (cables, substations and earthing...
13th February 2018
WA Branch : Barefoot Bowls
On 2 February 2018, the WA ACA branch held its first event of the year – Barefoot Bowls. Check out the gallery for excellent photos of the festivities. [envira-gallery id=”4067″]
13th February 2018
INFRASTRUCTURE | THE MOVIE
Corrosion mitigation is not really the sort of thing that they make movies about. Last Week Tonight (2015) took a stab at making incremental maintenance and inspection exciting..
5th February 2018
P F Thompson – A Pioneer in Corrosion Research and Education
W K Green1 & B R W Hinton2 1Vinsi Partners, Sydney and Deakin University, Melbourne, 2Monash and Deakin Universities, Melbourne This article was originally published in Corrosion & Materials August 2015. Percival Faraday Thompson (P F Thompson, PFT), (1885-1951) a metallurgist and chemical analyst, is widely considered as Australia’s pioneer in corrosion science and education....
4th February 2018