Technology for Energy Corporation (TEC) has acquired RadioBro Corporation, an innovative engineering team focused on the development and production of embedded measurement devices and wireless communication technologies for the aerospace and defense industry. “RadioBro has a core set of technologies that collect data remotely and transmit the data back to a server which could be…
2020 has been a year of substantial change around the world. Millions of businesses and billions of people have had to make major adjustments to their daily routines and Materials Testing is no exception. Fortunately, Materials Testing and its associated instrumentation product lines are classified as part of the Essential Critical Infrastructure Workers as defined…
TEC and its associated instrumentation product lines are classified as part of the Essential Critical Infrastructure Workers as defined by the Department of Homeland Security. Our instrumentation is used widely to support aviation, nuclear power production, electricity distribution and military customers. All of these industries are defined as critical infrastructure. Additionally, many of our customers…
Like you, we’re monitoring the latest news about the coronavirus (COVID-19). We remain committed to the health and safety of our staff, which is of utmost importance to us. While the current risk in Tennessee remains low, President Trump declared a national emergency on March 13 to protect public health and our vulnerable populations and…
Springs add a bounce to life – until they don’t. Premature failures are often correlated to detrimental (usually tensile) residual stresses or less-than-optimal retained austenite content. Fortunately, residual stresses and retained austenite can be controlled during the manufacturing process. They can be verified using X-ray diffraction. Residual Stresses Springs, by their nature, are subjected to…
Bladesmithing competition invigorates student participation in TMS The sword and the knife have a special mythological place in human experience. While they may not be useful today as weapons, they continue to appeal and find places in movies, games and in the iconography of our lives. The Sword of Attila the Hun was purported to…
We’ve launched a new website to better serve you We’ve been working hard these past few months to completely redesign our website making it more useful and relevant to our materials testing customers. While it’s almost certain we will have a kink or two to work out in the next couple of weeks, we hope your…