Materials engineering topic list of research papers
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Comprehensive Evaluation of Energy Intensity Change for 1997- 2012 Based on Input-output Analysis: Evidence from Beijing
Abstract As the capital of China, Beijing is regarded as a major metropolis in the world. Study of the variation in temporal energy intensity generated by the driving forces in Beijing can provide guidance for policy decisions on energy consumption...
2016 / Junrong Zhang, Ling Li, Lean Yu, Ling Tang -
Genre-based Link Prediction in Bipartite Graph for Music Recommendation
Abstract The bipartite graph method of link prediction can apply in many fields of recommendations, with the nodes (users and items) and links (interactions between users and items). However, that links cannot represent the users’ dual preferences...
2016 / Daozhen Zhao, Lingling Zhang, Weiqi Zhao -
Trajectory Tracking and Control of Differential Drive Robot for Predefined Regular Geometrical Path
Abstract Trajectories made by concatenating straight motion and in place turning primitive are one that can be easily followed by a differential drive robot. This paper presents trajectory tracking and control of differential drive robots along a...
2016 / Robins Mathew, Somashekhar S. Hiremath -
Asphaltene Separation with Designer Solvents for the Deasphaltenes Process-A Quantum Chemical Approach
Abstract Significance of Ionic Liquids (ILs), designer solvents, on inhibiting the asphaltene deposition provided the alternative solution to the problem. In this work, 34 anions and 3 cations comprising of 102 combinations of ILs were investigated...
2016 / Zeeshan Rashid, Cecilia Devi Wilfred, Thanapalan Murugesan -
Study of the Reasons of Emergency Shutdown of Multiple Hearth Furnace for Production of the Magnesia Binding Material
Abstract The results of chemical, mechanical and metallographic studies of elements of the design of a multiple hearth furnace from the steel 1.4837 and 1.4857 according to EN 10295: 2002 are given in order to establish possible causes of its...
2016 / R.G. Gubaidulin, A.K. Tingaev -
Behavior and microstructural changes in different tungsten-based materials under pulsed plasma loading
Abstract In this study, morphological, microstructural and phase changes of four types of tungsten materials after exposure to dense deuterium plasma were examined. The microstructures of the prepared materials mutually differ by the porosity, grain ...
2016 / M. Vilémová, Z. Pala, A. Jäger, J. Matějíček, M. Chernyshova, et al. -
Economical Solutions for Short-span Bridges Using Reinforced Glue Laminated Timber and Steel
Abstract The aim of this research was to develop new composite bridge concepts that are easily buildable and have a high grade of prefabrication by using reinforced glue laminated timber beams and steel trusses. All structural parts are designed so...
2016 / Marusceac Vladimir, Vlad Mihai -
On the role of microstructure in finite fracture mechanics
Abstract Theoretical predictions using Finite Fracture Mechanics (FFM) normally treat the material as a homogeneous continuum. However, the use of FFM involves (or implies) a material length parameter, L, which may or may not be constant depending...
2016 / David Taylor -
Crack nucleation criterion and its application to impact indentation in glasses2016 / Jian Luo, K. Deenamma Vargheese, Adama Tandia, Guangli Hu, John C Mauro
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Defect tolerance in soft materials
Abstract The ability of materials to withstand defects like cracks, notches or generic geometric discontinuities, is usually indicated as flaw tolerance, and is a crucial aspect of the safety assessment of structural components. Flaw tolerance in...
2016 / Roberto Brighenti, Andrea Spagnoli, Andrea Carpinteri, Federico Artoni -
Pulsed Laser Processing of Paper Materials
Abstract At present the trends in paper and packaging industries are the personalization of products and the use of novel high-tech materials. Laser processes as non-contact and flexible techniques seem to be the obvious choice to address those...
2016 / Florian Schechtel, Yvonne Reg, Maik Zimmermann, Thomas Stocker, Fabian Knorr, et al. -
The Analysis of Frequencies of Own Insulators Fluctuations for the Solution of a Problem of their Control
Abstract Upon the diagnostics of basic rod insulators by method of free fluctuations the main difficulty is the choice of the informative frequency ranges of a spectrum characterizing existence of defects. A problem of work is the analysis of...
2016 / A.R. Zagretdinov, Yu.V. Vankov, I.V. Ivshin -
The effect of monosialylganglioside mix modifying the PEGylated liposomal epirubicin on the accelerated blood clearance phenomenon
Abstract PEGylated liposomes are potential candidates to improve the pharmacokinetic characteristics of encapsulated drugs, to extend their circulation half-life and facilitate their passive accumulation at tumour sites. However, PEG-modified...
2016 / Ting Zhang, Songlei Zhou, Le Kang, Xiang Luo, Yang Liu, et al. -
Life Cycle Design and Efficiency Principles for Membrane Architecture: Towards a New Set of Eco-design Strategies
Abstract The typical membranes for building are polymer-based materials, which have origin from fossil fuel. Nevertheless, they are supposed to become very lightweight building components, compared with other typical ones, and, due to their...
2016 / Carol Monticelli, Alessandra Zanelli -
Finite Element Analysis of Cover Plate Joint under Ultimate Loading
Abstract This paper presents a parametric study to investigate the mechanical behavior of bolted connection plates based on finite element analysis (FEA). Different parameters as end distances, bolt spacing, and plate thickness. EC3 (Eurocode 3) and ...
2016 / Maitham Alibrahemy, Sébastien Durif, Philippe Bressolette, Abdelhamid Bouchaïr -
Driving Process Innovation: A Structured Method for Improving Efficiency in SMEs
Abstract This paper proposes a method to drive process innovation toward the increase in efficiency of a production plant. The work defines a structured method, supported by a classification tool, to correctly organize whole plant...
2016 / Alessandra Papetti, Eugenia Marilungo, Fabio Gregori, Michele Germani -
Refined Biaxial Test Procedures for the Determination of Design Elastic Constants of Architectural Fabrics
Abstract In today's structural design practice for textile structures, still one of the most challenging aspects is the determination of material stiffness parameters. The only constitutive law used in practice describes orthotropic linear-elastic...
2016 / Jörg Uhlemann, Natalie Stranghöner -
Service Life of Magnetic Liquid Vacuum Tribounits
Abstract To evaluate the service life of a tribounit with magnetic liquid in a vacuum it is necessary to know the time dependence of dispersed phase growing concentration on the carrier liquid evaporation. According to the molecular-kinetic theory...
2016 / A.N. Bolotov, V.V. Novikov, O.O. Novikova -
Implementation of WG Stream Cipher with Involution Function
Abstract This paper present a new hardware design of WelchGong (WG)128 cipher. The proposed WG Stream cipher use an involution function block, for increasing the security of private data. The hardware complexity of involution block is very less....
2016 / V.C. Ashan -
Analysing the Effects of Temperature and Doping Concentration in Silicon Based MEMS Piezoresistive Pressure Sensor
Abstract Wide range of improvements in the silicon integrated circuits and micromachining technology enables the development of various sensing instruments. Micro Electro Mechanical System (MEMS) technology enables fabrication of micromachined...
2016 / K.J. Suja, G.S. Kumar, Rama Komaragiri, A. Nisanth