A new issue of Outokumpu's scientific magazine, Acom, has been published. The new issue is focusing on welding and it contains two articles. The first one gives advice on how to deal with the welding consequences when replacing austenitic stainless steel with duplex stainless steel and the second article presents research results on the fracture toughness of welded commercial lean duplex stainless steels. The new editor of Acom, Jesper Gunnarsson, comments the new issue: 

-Acom has been missing an editor for a while and during that time; no new issues have been published. I am very pleased with this latest issue and also to be the new editor of Acom and we will publish a second issue later this year, in December.

All issues of Acom can be found at the following address: http://www.outokumpu.com/applications/documents/start.asp by clicking on the button “Publications”. Acom is only available as a digital copy and to subscribe, go to the above mentioned address, click on the “Register”-button in the upper right corner, fill in personal and company information, click on “Additional services (opt)” and then mark the empty square “acom subscription”. Finally, click the green “Register”-button in the lower right corner and you will get a notification with a link to the next acom issue, when it is published.

Jesper Gunnarsson
Avesta Research Centre, Sweden
Email: jesper.gunnarsson(at)outokumpu.com