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4 A D V A N C E D M A T E R I A L S & P R O C E S S E S | N O V E M B E R / D E C E M B E R 2 0 2 1 ASM International 9639 Kinsman Road, Materials Park, OH 44073 Tel: 440.338.5151 • Fax: 440.338.4634 Joanne Miller, Editor joanne.miller@asminternational.org Victoria Burt, Managing Editor vicki.burt@asminternational.org Frances Richards and Corinne Richards Contributing Editors Jan Nejedlik, Layout and Design Madrid Tramble, Production Manager madrid.tramble@asminternational.org Press Release Editor magazines@asminternational.org EDITORIAL COMMITTEE Adam Farrow, Chair, Los Alamos National Lab John Shingledecker, Vice Chair, EPRI Somuri Prasad, Past Chair, Sandia National Lab Beth Armstrong, Oak Ridge National Lab Margaret Flury, Medtronic Surojit Gupta, University of North Dakota Nia Harrison, Ford Motor Company Michael Hoerner, KnightHawk Engineering Hideyuki Kanematsu, Suzuka National College of Technology Ibrahim Karaman, Texas A&M University Ricardo Komai, Tesla Scott Olig, U.S. Naval Research Lab Amit Pandey, Lockheed Martin Space Satyam Sahay, John Deere Technology Center India Kumar Sridharan, University of Wisconsin Jean-Paul Vega, Siemens Energy Vasisht Venkatesh, Pratt & Whitney ASMBOARDOF TRUSTEES Judith A. Todd, President and Chair of the Board David B. Williams, Vice President Diana Essock, Immediate Past President John C. Kuli, Treasurer Burak Akyuz Ann Bolcavage Elizabeth Ho man Navin Manjooran Toni Marechaux U. Kamachi Mudali James E. Saal Priti Wanjara Ji-Cheng Zhao Ryan Milosh, Secretary and Interim Managing Director STUDENT BOARDMEMBERS Shruti Dubey, AndrewRuba, David Scannapieco Individual readers of AdvancedMaterials & Processes may, without charge, make single copies of pages therefrom for per- sonal or archival use, or may freelymake such copies in such numbers as are deemed useful for educational or research purposes and are not for sale or resale. Permission is granted to cite or quote fromarticles herein, provided customary acknowledgment of the authors and source is made. The acceptance and publication of manuscripts in Advanced Materials & Processes does not imply that the reviewers, editors, or publisher accept, approve, or endorse the data, opinions, and conclusions of the authors. OPPORTUNITY TO THRIVE 1907 Rolls-Royce Silver Ghost clad in polished aluminum. From Automotive Aluminum: Part I. T he bipartisan infrastructure bill recently signed into law in the U.S. has financial analysts placing bets on which companies are sure to benefit. Some of the names touted include Caterpillar, whose heavy machinery will literally lay the foundation for improved roads, and gi- ants like Cleveland-Cliffs, whose iron ore and steel will bol- ster the scaffolding of our nation’s bridges. You likely have favorites as well. In terms of the professional workforce, civil engineers will be in high demand as will construction, process, and project management engineers. But what’s good for our adjacent engineering disciplines is also good for materials engineers. Take the increased need for nondestructive testing on all those bridge im- provements. The 42% of AM&P readers who are involved in some aspect of test- ing and inspection may see an uptick in phone calls. Portions of the new law also support clean energy. ASM members in organizations such as First Solar, Siemens, EPRI, and the Department of Energy’s national labs are already work- ing toward that goal. Their expertise may be leveraged. The bill also calls for en- hancements to car safety. Our materials and design engineers in the automotive sector will be looking for ways car bumpers and hoods can provide more protec- tion. Engineering as a whole should see benefits. Steering back to AM&P, we conclude our 12-part Automo- tive Aluminum series in this issue. And what a thrilling ride it’s been! The series started by taking us back to 1899, when aluminum sheet was first in- troduced to the auto industry to save weight in a sports car and give it a high-tech appear- ance. The series continued to describe the development of aluminum usage by the Big Three along with cam- eo appearances from Audi, Honda, Jaguar Land Rover, Porsche, and Toyota. Of course, Alcan and Alcoa are strong leads throughout the series. The concluding article provides a dramatic narrative of how Ford achieved its successful use of aluminumauto body sheet in the F-150. It ends with a discussion on electric vehi- cles and how they pose new challenges to the use of aluminum in future models. Thank you to authors Laurent Chappuis and Robert Sanders who took us on this compelling journey through automotive aluminum history and made each article more interesting than the last. Through their connections, the articles are getting some extra mileage by being housed as part of the permanent collections at both the Aluminum Museum in Paris and the Ford Museum in Detroit. As a Society, we’ve reviewed our own history as well and are implementing a tune-up to our infrastructure. In her first “From the President’s Desk” column, Judith Todd, FASM, introduces a Decade of Opportunity. This next phase for ASM starts off by instituting leadership transitions and leveraging our digital aptitude. Pair those changes with the launch of the Data Ecosystem in the new year—read the exciting details on page 54—and ASM is poised to thrive. As we head down the road of our Decade of Opportunity, all bets are on ASM. joanne.miller@asminternational.org