Many new materials have been developed, but steel remains the principal construction material for automobiles, appliances, and industrial machinery. Because of steel's vulnerability to attack by ...

It's amazing what technology has brought us since World War II and the Cold War. Every time we've had something important to do for the greater good of the country, great minds in research and ...

It used to be that the easiest way to tell a show car or a trailer queen from an actual runner was to look at the headers. Nice clean paint or flawless chrome meant that the engine had run a total of ...

CVD coatings can be applied with such precision and consistency that designers can tighten tolerances even on intricate internal passages on components such as this turbine blade. Design engineers ...