Materials engineering topic list of research papers
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Three-dimensional sampling of material structure for property modeling and design2014 / McLean P Echlin, William C Lenthe, Tresa M Pollock
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Laser-Based Hot-Melt Bonding of Thermosetting GFRP
Abstract In the future the use of tailored multi-material components will increase because of lightweight constructions. However for an optimal integration of different materials suitable joining techniques are necessary. This paper presents results ...
2012 / P. Amend, B. Pillach, T. Frick, M. Schmidt -
Laser Prepared Cutting Tools
Abstract Laser pulses with a pulsewidth of a few picoseconds have recently received a lot of attention, solving the problem of manufacturing tools for new materials of superior mechanical properties. Processing thermally sensitive material, such as...
2012 / Wegener Konrad, Dold Claus, Henerichs Marcel, Walter Christian -
Root Humping in Laser Welding – an Investigation based on High Speed Imaging
Abstract Regular drop formation (humping) along the weld root during laser welding was studied by high speed imaging of the melt pool underneath the workpiece. The formation of droplets towards the rear of this weld pool was seen to be primarily...
2012 / Torbjörn Ilar, Ingemar Eriksson, John Powell, Alexander Kaplan -
FEM Analysis of Spring-backs in Age Forming of Aluminum Alloy Plates
Abstract The age forming technology, characterized by huge spring-backs, has been developed to manufacture large integral wing-skin panel parts, which necessitates devising a method of predicting spring-backs. A 7B04-T7451 aluminum alloy creep test...
2007 / Huang Lina, Wan Mina, Chi Cailoub, Ji Xiushengb -
An Elasto-plastic Damage Constitutive Theory Based on Pair Functional Potentials and Slip Mechanism
Abstract The deformation work rate can be expressed by the time rate of pair functional potentials which describe the energy of materials in terms of atomic bonds and atom embedding interactions. According to Cauchy-Born rule, the relations between...
2011 / Liu Fang, Fu Qiang, Chen Cen, Liang Naigang -
Flow Field Investigation in a Trapezoidal Duct with Swirl Flow Induced by Impingement Jets
Abstract An enlarged model of trapezoidal duct near the leading-edge in the blade is built up. The effects of impingement jets, swirl flow, cross flow and effusion flow are considered. Experiments are performed to measure flow fields in this...
2011 / Haiyong LIU, Hongfu QIANG, Songling LIU, Cunliang LIU -
Supplier Selection based on AHP QFD Methodology
Abstract Strategic partnership with better suppliers needs to be formed to improve quality, flexibility as well as to reduce lead time. The “voice” of company stakeholders has to be considered so that suppliers selected may provide what the company...
2013 / G. Rajesh, P. Malliga -
Weak Light Performance of PERC, PERT and Standard Industrial Solar Cells
Abstract We use SENTAURUS DEVICE simulation to investigate the effect of “passivated emitter and rear cell” (PERC) and “passivated emitter and rear, totally-diffused” (PERT) device architecture on the solar cells’ weak light performances....
2013 / Jan Krügener, Nils-Peter Harder -
FPGA based Monitoring Platform for Condition Monitoring in Cylindrical Grinding
Abstract Sensor systems for machine condition monitoring face many challenges in the world of digitized data with an emphasis being placed on the application of high performance feature extraction computing systems. These systems must be robust,...
2014 / Ivor Humphreys, Gerrit Eisenblätter, Garret E. O’Donnell -
Commercial Readiness of eSolar Next Generation Heliostat
Abstract eSolar has been designing small heliostats since the company's founding in 2007. One of the cornerstones of our approach to heliostat design is to deploy many factory-built small heliostats in high density fields. The fields are replicated...
2014 / P. Ricklin, M. Slack, D. Rogers, R. Huibregtse -
Reduction of global effects on vehicles after IED detonations
Abstract Global effects caused by the detonation of an IED near a military vehicle induce subsequent severe acceleration effects on the vehicle occupants. Two concepts to minimize these global effects were developed, with the help of a combined...
2014 / V. Denefeld, N. Heider, A. Holzwarth, A. Sättler, M. Salk -
Synthesis and Fire-extinguishing Properties of Monobromotrifluoropropene
Abstract The State Key Laboratory of Fire Science has been investigating bromofluoroalkenes as Halon replacements for several years. One of the leading candidate agents of bromofluoroalkenes is monobromotrifluoropropene, (CF3CBrCH2, CAS Code...
2013 / Xiang Jin, Xiaomeng Zhou, Guangxuan Liao, Jia Wang -
Anticoagulant factor V: Factors affecting the integration of novel scientific discoveries into the broader framework
Abstract Since its initial discovery in the 1940s, factor V has long been viewed as an important procoagulant protein in the coagulation cascade. However, in the later part of the 20th century, two different scientists proposed novel anticoagulant...
2014 / Michelle L. LaBonte -
Innovative Dance-Technology Educational Practices within Senses Places
Abstract The project Senses Places has developed an experimental somatic-technological dance approach for dancing in mixed reality mediated through image, avatars and biodata. This paper discusses the interfaces and choreographic methods resulting...
2014 / Isabel Valverde, Todd Cochrane -
Thermal lens and all optical switching of new organometallic compound doped polyacrylamide gel
Abstract In this work thermal lens spectrometry (TLS) is applied to investigate the thermo-optical properties of new organometallic compound containing azomethine group, Dichloro bis [2-(2-hydroxybenzylideneamino)-5-methylphenyl] telluride...
2014 / Hussain Ali Badran -
Spectroscopic properties of the Pr3+ ion in TeO2-WO3-PbO-La2O3 and TeO2-WO3-PbO-Lu2O3 glasses2013 / Bożena Burtan, Maciej Sitarz, Radosław Lisiecki, Witold Ryba-Romanowski, Piotr Jeleń, et al.
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Second Generation of Pressure Sensitive Fasteners for Active Disassembly
Abstract Reversible fasteners suited for Active Disassembly (AD), which can be simultaneously released by an increase in ambient air pressure, have been developed in prior research. However, the implementation of these active fasteners in electronic ...
2014 / Jef R. Peeters, Wannes Van den Bossche, Tom Devoldere, Wim Dewulf, Joost R. Duflou -
Increasing the Resource Efficiency of Machine Tools by Life Cycle Oriented Services
Abstract The increasing responsibility of companies for sustainable manufacturing of their products requires a resource-efficient use of a machine tool. Aside from technical measures regarding the machines, life cycle oriented services present a...
2014 / Gülsüm Mert, Christian Bohr, Sebastian Waltemode, Jan C. Aurich -
Numerical Simulation of Drying Ceramic Using Finite Element and Machine Vision
Abstract Shrinkage and cracking occurs during drying of green products such as clay brick and ceramic tiles Modeling and accurate simulation of shrinkage phenomenon and the stresses induced as a result of drying shrinkage may be used to predict...
2014 / K. Khalili, M. Bagherian, S. Khisheh