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Light Metal Age (LMA) is pleased to announce its 70th anniversary of continuous publication. The technical trade publication was inaugurated in May 1943 by Roy Fellom, Jr., combining his personal interests and educational background as a mining engineer with the family publishing business started by his father. With its first issue (cover pictured), Roy printed […]
The world’s largest conference and expo dedicated to green building, Greenbuild 2010 was held November 17-19 at McCormick Place West in Chicago, IL. Around 28,000 attendees came together at Greenbuild for three days of educational sessions, green building tours, special seminars, and networking events. Greenbuild is managed and organized by the U.S. Green Building Council […]
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For 68 years, a subscription to Light Metal Age has been an excellent way to keep up to date on the news and technical innovations taking place in the light metal world. Now Light Metal Age offers digital subscriptions, making this knowledge available faster than ever. Digital subscriptions are delivered 6 times a year directly […]
Due to the popularity of the list of Secondary Aluminum Smelters of the World, Light Metal Age has decided to make available online our list of Primary Aluminum Smelters of the World (previously available only in our February print edition of the magazine). This list provides current capacities and shut down capacities for primary aluminum […]
Light Metal Age has officially opened its online article store. Currently articles spanning from 2005 to present are available to purchase in downloadable pdf formats. More articles will become available overtime and eventually the Light Metal Age Article Store will grow to include the entire database of 68 years of publication. Articles cost just $5 […]
The globalization of the aluminum industry has made it imperative that universal alloy and temper designations be adopted worldwide. Already, there is an international accord regarding the designation and composition of aluminum and aluminum alloys, published by The Aluminum Association in TEAL SHEETS 2009. However, there still is no international accord on designation and registration […]
The International Conference on Extrusion and Benchmark (ICEB) is an event aimed at promoting the most recent advances in aluminum extrusion technologies with a specific session dedicated to the evaluation of the reliability of FEM codes for process analysis. At the 2009 conference, organized in Dortmund in September 2009, there was great interest in the […]
As screw fasteners are so often used in aluminum structures, the structural integrity of joints made with these fasteners are highly dependent on proper design guidelines. The Hydro Extrusion Design Manual 2009 and The Aluminum Association’s Aluminum Design Manual 2005 present general design guidelines for mechanical connections. The Hydro Manual includes joining guidelines for longitudinal […]
Dr. V.I. Johannes and C.W. Jowett’s paper, “Temperature Distribution in Aluminum Extrusion Billets” (referenced in “Homogenization of Aluminum Alloy Extrusion Billet, Part III” in the April 2009 issue of LMA), has been updated by Johannes with corrections to the equations that originally appeared in the paper in the Proceedings of the Sixth International Extrusion Technology […]
