Shaping the Future: Insights into the Isostatic Pressing Market
The global isostatic pressing market is projected to be USD 13,568.1 million by 2030 growing at a CAGR of 7.0% during the forecast period. sectors including energy, aerospace, medical devices, automotive, and manufacturing regularly use isostatic pressing. In this regard, the requirement for such technology is significantly impacted by the growing requirement for contemporary materials and…
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exhausted personal rambling
SO one of the myriad crazy things happening over the last few months is that our family car was in a very bad wreck in mid-November. All of the people are fine, thank God, but the car needed extensive repairs.
Well, those repairs were supposed to be completed by December 3. The collision shop kept finding more problems and bumping out the return date.
Our car insurance stopped paying for a rental on December 15. I called and confirmed with the collision repair shop multiple times that THEY were taking over the rental car payment, since our insurance wasn't paying anymore and the collision repair shop was responsible for the delays in returning our car. They agreed to pay for the rental, and we've been just sitting here, checking in every few days, and now they're saying they MIGHT have our car repair finished this afternoon.
In the meantime, I got a call from the car rental company today saying, "Uh were you aware your insurance isn't covering the rental anymore and you owe $600 out of pocket for the last 15 days?"
Apparently the collision repair place never took over the payment like they said they were going to. (Like I confirmed with them literally every time I spoke on the phone with the guy.)
Aaaaand now we're trying to figure out how to get this sorted out in the next two hours, because everything's about to close for the holiday weekend and not reopen until Tuesday, and at that point we'll be on the hook for another 3 days' worth of rental payments. But if we return the rental car before the repair shop accepts responsibility for payment, the rental place will just charge us for it because we're the only responsible party listed on the record atm.
It would be nice if something could be simple and cheap lol. This is ... just a terrible series of events to be dealing with in addition to my partner being unemployed rn. More than anything, I'm just very tired.
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Powder Metallurgy applications
PM is widely used to produce critical engine components such as connecting rods, camshafts, and gears. The process allows for the creation of intricate shapes and the incorporation of alloying elements to enhance performance.
PM is employed in manufacturing transmission parts like synchronizer hubs and gears. The high precision achievable with PM ensures the production of components with minimal post-processing.
Powder Metallurgy is utilized to fabricate structural components of aircraft, including brackets, fasteners, and various lightweight parts. The high strength-to-weight ratio achievable with PM is advantageous in aerospace applications.
PM is ideal for manufacturing components used in satellites, where weight reduction is crucial. It ensures the production of lightweight yet robust parts, contributing to overall fuel efficiency.
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My first attempt at some spellbooks for some bookwyrms! I’ve been having fun playing with mica powder lately so expect lots of shimmery and iridescent celestial works.
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I’m generally good at baking because I LOVE following recipes exactly
But then yesterday I was making buttercream and thought ‘wow this is a lot of vanilla essence’, upon which time I took a closer look at the measuring spoon I was using
And that’s how I put a tablespoon and a half of vanilla essence (25ml) into my buttercream instead of a teaspoon and a half (7.5ml)
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Cry a River - work-in-progress
cast plaster with bronze powder & wash, dyed found stoneware, schlag-metal leafed & lacquered found object (circuit-board drilling backer), slumped iridescent black glass - 9¼"x 10"x 1½" (as is)
This will be mounted within a shadowbox frame and probably have further elements added. This piece began about ten years ago when I discovered the masonite-like circuit-board drilling backer while dismantling a decorative cloth-wrapped oriental-style box which had been discarded. After stripping the cloth off the board and removing all the adhesive residue it was leafed and sealed with tinted lacquer. A Another inch-wide strip of this box-backer was used in another piece, GOLDEN DREAM: PERFORATIONS (see below), but this larger salvaged piece sat unused in the studio, and though it was considered as a possible element in any number compositions over the years it was always shelved again as being not-quite-right. Finding the stoneware fragment with the concentric circular pattern (a bottom-side-up fragment of a large broken hand-thrown platter) and retrieving the old lip demo (which had been fitted with a magnet and sat attached onto various computers as a 'mascot' for many years), and then after doing some texture test-slumps of various iridescent glass pieces these all just came-together. Gotta make the shadowbox frame to fit next.
GOLDEN DREAM: PERFORATIONS
plywood cradle, gold-painted joint cement, paint-wiped Virginia slate, blued steel found object, dyed maple burl, schlag-metal leafed found object (circuit-board drilling backer), dichroic glass - 13¾"x 13"x 2½" - 2016 - sculptural painting exhibited once, in 2022
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Nontoxic powder uses sunlight to quickly disinfect contaminated drinking water
At least 2 billion people worldwide routinely drink water contaminated with disease-causing microbes.
Now Stanford University scientists have invented a low-cost, recyclable powder that kills thousands of waterborne bacteria per second when exposed to ordinary sunlight. The discovery of this ultrafast disinfectant could be a significant advance for nearly 30% of the world's population with no access to safe drinking water, according to the Stanford team. Their results are published in Nature Wateron May 18.
"Waterborne diseases are responsible for 2 million deaths annually, the majority in children under the age of 5," said study co-lead author Tong Wu, a former postdoctoral scholar of materials science and engineering (MSE) in the Stanford School of Engineering. "We believe that our novel technology will facilitate revolutionary changes in water disinfection and inspire more innovations in this exciting interdisciplinary field."
Conventional water-treatment technologies include chemicals, which can produce toxic byproducts, and ultraviolet light, which takes a relatively long time to disinfect and requires a source of electricity.
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