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METALLURGY LANE
STEEL MINIMILLS—PART I
Charles R. Simcoe
From 1900 to 1960, there was little
change in the steelmaking industry.
Steel minimills came on the scene in
the late 1960s.
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PROGRESS REPORT
MATERIALS GENOME
INITIATIVE
Technical societies meet to
discuss building the materials
data infrastructure.
ASM NEWS
The monthly publication about ASM
members, chapters, events, awards,
affiliates, and other Society activities.
TECHNICAL SPOTLIGHT
ACOUSTIC IMAGING TECHNIQUES EFFECTIVELY
MAP BURIED LAYER CONTOURS
Acoustic microscopy advances enable mapping of the point-by-
point contour of tilted or warped interfaces, as well as individual
material layer thicknesses.
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Time difference mode image
of solder thickness in an IGBT
module with a tilted raft.
Courtesy of Sonoscan Inc.,
Elk Grove Village, Ill.
sonoscan.com.
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