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4 There is an ethereal beauty andmajesty to the swirled floating lines of the Guggenheim Museum in Bilbao, Spain. Yet, the transition fromdesign to construction proved to be a massive and perplexing undertaking. World-renowned architect Frank Gehry found the solution by adapting aero- space software. It provided the precise calculations his builders needed to be able to shape the titanium exterior into those trademark Gehry curves. Data saved the day. And now, the newly launched ASM Data Ecosystem can provide similar guidance to the larger materials engineering community. This ambitious venture with an enormous scope provides engineers in design and manufacturing with a one-stop, digital platform for getting the data answers they need. Users will find that the collection of simulation and analytical tools in Release 1 represents a wide range of options from various partners. But there’s much more to come. In this is- sue, Ray Fryan, ASM executive director of new product development, explains how the offerings in the Data Ecosys- tem will grow exponentially as more partners aggregate their data into the ASM platform. More partners = more data and tools = more options and solutions for the materials engineering community. The possibilities for users are enormous, exciting, and ever-expanding. And speaking of enormity of scale, it would be hard to miss the world’s larg- est indoor testbed featured on the cover of this aerospace issue. The cavernous new facility in Rolls-Royce’s Derby location literally brings turbine testing to new heights. Not only are the current capabilities impressive in their complexity and by the sheer numbers—the article is filled with astounding factoids—but the test- bed also was designed to handle engines of the future (i.e., physically larger and either hybrid or all-electric). Read how the company’s pillars of sustainable avi- ation were driving forces in their engineering decisions for the testbed. And they will serve as a type of control tower, guiding all related endeavors going forward. As an example, the company is committed to helping the industry work toward a specification for 100% sustainable aviation fuel. Certainly a lofty but critical goal. Specifications are also on the mind of the author from Velo3D. In the arti- cle, “Qualifying Materials using Laser Powder Bed Fusion for Additively Manufac- tured (AM) Aerospace Components,” he presents a realistic picture of the state of standards and specs for AM parts. Some cutting-edge application examples cited include parts used in SpaceX’s Raptor rocket engines as well as components uti- lized in hypersonic flight. Advancements in AM materials now allow for the cre- ation of parts previously unheard of in these unique space environments. For more on next-generationmaterials for aerospace, see our AeroMat Show Preview in this issue and then head to sunny Pasadena for the event. Starting this year, the combined aerospace signature events from ASM and SAE International will be offered in one location. There you’ll hear firsthand—from a trio of keynote speakers addressing “Innovation, Engineered for the Era of Delivery”—how the future of avionics is shaping up. I’m sure it will be grand. joanne.miller@asminternational.org 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 | M A R C H 2 0 2 2 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. 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