FOR IMMEDIATE RELEASE: Brentwood, TN, October 10, 2022 – VEXTEC Corporation was awarded a sole source contract from the U.S. Navy to expand its Corrosion Cracking Maintenance Prediction Software (CCMPS). CCMPS is used by the Navy to predict the future maintenance needs for aluminum (5000 series) ship structures. The [...]
In our last blog on the topic of corrosion, we discussed how corrosion control can be a “headache”, and how controlling corrosion implies controlling the man-made contributors such as corrosion fatigue, which is a very dominant corrosion factor. Nowadays, integrated computational material engineering (ICME) and recent [...]
Read Next Blog in the Series We previously discussed how corrosion can be “the good guy” for some applications when degradation is beneficial, such as in self-deteriorating medical implants. Also, how it can be “the bad guy” for some other applications where degradation [...]
VEXTEC will be presenting at the Department of Defense (DoD) Allied Nations Technical Corrosion Conference in Birmingham, AL, August 7 – 10, 2017. […]
VEXTEC® will be presenting at the Aircraft Structural Integrity Program (ASIP) 32nd Annual Conference in San Antonio, Texas on November 29th, 2016. […]
Image by Praisaeng at FreeDigitalPhotos.net While plenty of industries abhor corrosion and its consequences, another sector has welcomed it as a step in the healing process: medical devices. Devices have evolved over the decades to be less-intrusive during (and after) implantation.The bio-inert nature of titanium (along with [...]
Read Next Blog in the Series Image courtesy of sakhorn38 at FreeDigitalPhotos.net The topic of corrosion makes recurring appearances in the media; it seems that when you hear about one corrosion-related problem, invariably there will be others reported-on at around the [...]