Materials engineering topic list of research papers
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Co-sputtered amorphous Nb–Ta, Nb–Zr and Ta–Zr coatings for corrosion protection of cyclotron targets for [18F] production
Abstract Protective corrosion resistant coatings serve for decreasing the amount of ionic contaminants from Havar® entrance foils of the targets for [18F] production. The corrosion damage of coated entrance foils is caused mainly by the diffusion of ...
2015 / Hanna Skliarova, Oscar Azzolini, Richard R. Johnson, Vincenzo Palmieri -
Mechanical Property Change in the Region of Very High-cycle Fatigue
Abstract Very high-cycle fatigue behaviour of type 316L austenitic stainless steel, which is used as the structural material of the pulsed spallation neutron sources, was investigated through the ultrasonic fatigue test with the strain rate of 102...
2015 / Zhihong Xiong, Takashi Naoe, Tao Wan, Masatoshi Futakawa, Katsuhiro Maekawa -
Task based synthesis of serial manipulators
Abstract Computing the optimal geometric structure of manipulators is one of the most intricate problems in contemporary robot kinematics. Robotic manipulators are designed and built to perform certain predetermined tasks. There is a very close...
2015 / Sarosh Patel, Tarek Sobh -
Knowledge Capturing and Reuse to Support Manufacturing of Customised Products: A Case Study from the Mould Making Industry
Abstract Manufacturing activities are characterised by high repetitiveness and the generation of vast amounts of data, which however remain underutilised and in most cases completely unexploited. However, new design and planning projects share...
2014 / D. Mourtzis, M. Doukas -
Modeling and Optimization of NOX Emission in a Coal-fired Power Plant using Advanced Machine Learning Methods
Abstract A new methodology combining the advanced extreme learning machine (ELM) and harmony search (HS) was proposed to model and optimize the operational parameters of the boiler for the control of NOX emissions in a 700 MW pulverized coal-fired...
2015 / Peng Tan, Ji Xia, Cheng Zhang, Qingyan Fang, Gang Chen -
Study of a New Integrated Solar Collector
Abstract Even though the integration of renewable energies in new buildings is technically easy, the rise of solar thermal systems in the French market of energy renovation is limited by recurring constraints of implementation related to the...
2014 / G. Fraisse, M. Pailha, M. Swiatek, C. Paulus, J. Souza, et al. -
Simulation of Composite Hot Extrusion with High Reinforcing Volumes
Abstract Experimental results, which indicate a significant influence of the reinforcing elements on the material flow during composite extrusion with high reinforcing volumes, are presented. In order to analyze the process numerically, finite...
2014 / Martin Schwane, Teresa Citrea, Christoph Dahnke, Matthias Haase, Nooman Ben Khalifa, et al. -
Cold and Warm V-bending Test for Carbon-fiber-reinforced Plastic Sheet
Abstract Although carbon-fiber-reinforced plastics (CFRPs) are the lightest and stiffest material, the use of CFRP is limited because of their higher price and lower formability than the other materials. We propose a method of stamping consolidated...
2014 / Yu Uriya, Katsuyoshi Ikeuch, Jun Yanagimoto -
Characterization of Silicon Carbide Particulate Reinforced AA6061 Aluminum Alloy Composites Produced via Stir Casting
Abstract Stir casting is an economical method to produce aluminum matrix composites (AMCs). In the present work, Aluminum alloy AA6061 reinforced with various amounts (0, 5, 10 and 15wt. %) of SiC particles were prepared. The matrix alloy was melted ...
2014 / J. Jebeen Moses, I. Dinaharan, S. Joseph Sekhar -
Phase Change and Heat Transfer Numerical Analysis during Solidification on an Encapsulated Phase Change Material
Abstract In this investigation the coupled phase change and heat transfer in a spherical capsule partially filled with sodium nitrate is numerically investigated during the solidification process. The finite volume method is used to compute energy...
2014 / Antonio Ramos Archibold, Muhammad M. Rahman, José Gonzalez-Aguilar, D. Yogi Goswami, Elias K. Stefanakos, et al. -
Impact behaviors of poly-lactic acid based biocomposite reinforced with unidirectional high-strength magnesium alloy wires
Abstract A novel poly-lactic acid (PLA) based biocomposite reinforced with unidirectional high-strength magnesium alloy (Mg-alloy) wires for bone fracture fixation was fabricated by hot-compressing process. The macroscopical and microscopical impact ...
2014 / Xuan Li, Chao Guo, Xiaokai Liu, Lei Liu, Jing Bai, et al. -
Two-dimensional crystals of mesoporous silica SBA-15 nanosheets with perpendicular and open channels2014 / Yi-Qi Yeh, Chih-Yuan Tang, Chung-Yuan Mou
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Effect of Laser Scan Speed on Surface Temperature, Cutting Forces and Tool Wear During Laser Assisted Machining of Alumina
Abstract This paper deals with the machining of alumina ceramics by employing high intense laser source as pre-heating tool and machined at different cutting conditions to study the feasibility of laser-assisted machining (LAM) process. To...
2014 / M. Venkatesh Kannan, P. Kuppan, A. Senthil Kumar, K. Ramesh Kumar, J. John Rozario Jegaraj -
Unstructured Adaptive Grid Refinement for Flow Feature Capture
Abstract An unstructured grid adaptation technology has been developed for capturing flow features effectively. The face-based hierarchical data structure is used at grid refinement procedure. The difference of suitable flow properties between cell...
2015 / Liu Zhou, Yang Yunjun, Gong Anlong, Zhou Weijiang -
Stochastic Creep Damage Estimation in Pipings with Spatial Non-gaussian Uncertainties Using Spectral Stochastic Finite Element Method
Abstract This study focuses on the development of stochastic finite element basedmethodology for damage assessment of piping components that carry high temperature fluids. The primary damagingmechanism is assumed to be due to thermal creep. The...
2014 / Y. Appalanaidu, Anindya Roy, Sayan Gupta -
Fabrication of Al5083/B4C surface composite by friction stir processing and its tribological characterization
Abstract Improved surface properties with the retainment of bulk properties are necessary for a component for enhanced wear characteristics. Friction stir processing (FSP) is used to produce such surface composites. Fabrication of 5083 aluminum...
2015 / Narayana Yuvaraj, Sivanandam Aravindan, Vipin -
Enhanced Mechanical and Wear Performance of Epoxy/glass Composites with PTW/Graphite Hybrid Fillers
Abstract Epoxy/glass composite containing two different micro-fillers was developed by vacuum bagging technique. The effect of ceramic whisker (7.5 wt%) and solid lubricant filler (2.5 wt%) on mechanical and dry sliding wear behavior of epoxy/glass...
2014 / M. Sudheer, K. Hemanth, K. Raju, Thirumaleshwara Bhat -
Electron imaging with an EBSD detector
Abstract Electron Backscatter Diffraction (EBSD) has proven to be a useful tool for characterizing the crystallographic orientation aspects of microstructures at length scales ranging from tens of nanometers to millimeters in the scanning electron...
2014 / Stuart I. Wright, Matthew M. Nowell, René de Kloe, Patrick Camus, Travis Rampton -
Pharmaceutical Cocrystals
Abstract Cocrystals are very interesting and useful product. In this paper the main information about cocrystals is presented. It is shown that cocrystals are solid substances, which consist of few components mixed together. There are a lot of ways...
2014 / Elena I. Korotkova, B. Kratochvíl -
Identifying Polymeric Constitutive Equations for Incremental Sheet Forming Modelling
Abstract Recent publications have revealed an increasing interest in forming polymer materials using Incremental Sheet Forming. Therefore, several constitutive material models are being developed in an attempt to predict the physical response of...
2014 / Isabel Bagudanch, Oscar Martínez-Romero, Alex Elías-Zúñiga, Maria Luisa Garcia-Romeu