For many years the manufacture of precision castings in titanium has relied on the vacuum arc remelting (VAR) process. This slow and costly technique severely limits development of the advanced ...

I’ve always thought that there are three things you can do with metal: cut it, bend it, and join it. Sure, I knew you could melt it, but that was always something that happened in big foundries- you ...

Effective control of melting and solidification behaviours of materials is significant for numerous applications. It has been a long-standing challenge to increase the melted zone (MZ) depth while ...