Materials engineering topic list of research papers
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Applications of Open-cell and Closed-cell Metal Foams for Radiation Shielding
Abstract A comparison of attenuation effectiveness against gamma rays and thermal neutrons among aluminum A356, close-cell composite metal foams and open-cell Aluminum foam infiltrated with variety of second phase materials were investigated...
2014 / Shuo Chen, Mohamed Bourham, Afsaneh Rabiei -
Development of a Novel Nanoparticle-based Therapeutic Vaccine for Breast Cancer Immunotherapy
Abstract Nanoparticles (NPs) have great potential as advanced delivery systems for cancer immunotherapy. PEGylated-Poly- lactide-co-glycolic acid-based (PLGA-PEG) NPs were prepared by double-emulsion solvent evaporation technique, using ovalbumin...
2014 / Eva Zupančič, JoanaM Silva, Mafalda A. Videira, João N. Moreira, Helena F. Florindo -
Three Dimensional Fracture Growth as a Standard Dissipative System: Some General Theorems and Numerical Simulations
Abstract The crack propagation problem for linear elastic fracture mechanics has been studied by several authors exploiting its analogy with standard dissipative systems theory (see e.g. Nguyen (1994); Bourdin et al. (2008); Salvadori (2008)). In...
2014 / Francesca Fantoni, Alberto Salvadori -
Effect of Mean Stress and Solution Annealing Temperature on Ratcheting Behaviour of AISI 304 Stainless Steel
Abstract The present investigation has been carried out to understand the effect of mean stress on room temperature ratcheting behaviour of solution annealed AISI 304 stainless steel at constant stress amplitude. It is found that the ratcheting...
2014 / Abhijnan Sarkar, Partha Sarathi De, Jayanta Kumar Mahato, Amrita Kundu, P.C. Chakraborti -
Effect of Loading Rate on Low-cycle Fatigue Properties of Turbine Rotor Steel
Abstract Low-cycle fatigue properties of 30Cr1Mo1V steam turbine rotor steel were studied by RDL05 electronic creep fatigue test machine at 0.1%.s-1, 0.3%.s-1, 0.5%.s-1 loading rates applied the total strain controlled method. The results involve...
2014 / Jianjun He, Jian Chen, Qingmin Sun -
Advanced Life Assessment Methods for Gas Turbine Engine Components
Abstract In combustion systems for aircraft applications, liners represent an interesting challenge from the engineering point of view regarding the state of stress, including high temperatures (up to 1500°C) varying over time, high thermal...
2014 / Vincenzo Cuffaro, Francesca Curà, Raffaella Sesana -
Fatigue Behaviour of Sintered Duplex Stainless Steel
Abstract The stainless steel despite of tradition of use over the 100 years are steel interesting in terms of metallurgical improvement and development of new products. Stainless steel products undergo intensive development, especially for duplex...
2014 / T. Tański, Z. Brytan, K. Labisz -
Numerical Investigation of Micro-channel based Active Module Cooling for Solar CPV System
Abstract Concentrating photovoltaic (CPV) technology is one of the fastest growing solar energy technologies achieving higher electrical conversion efficiencies. The increase in temperature of solar CPV cell significantly reduces the performance;...
2014 / K.S. Reddy, S. Lokeswaran, Pulkit Agarwal, Tapas K. Mallick -
A Power Flow Tracing based Method for Transmission Usage, Loss & Reliability Margin Allocation
Abstract Restructuring of Electricity supply industry introduced many issues such as transmission pricing, transmission loss allocation and congestion management. Many methodologies and algorithms were proposed for addressing these issues. In this...
2014 / Baseem Khan, Ganga Agnihotri, Gaurav Gupta, Pawan Rathore -
Transport of Oil in a Compound Vortex
Abstract Transport of immiscible admixtures in a compound vortex created by a uniformly rotating disk located at the bottom of the cylindrical container is investigated. At the initial time, a spot of a heavy dye or light oil is disposed at the...
2013 / T.O. Chaplina -
Band Gap and Deep Level of ZnxCd1-xSe Mixed Crystal Cells
Abstract The variation in band gap energy with composition was determined for single crystals of ZnxCd1-xSe at 300 and 90k. Au- ZnxCd1-xSe schotkky (X < 0.5) Diodes were fabricated. Deep level were also investigated in these diodes using photo...
2013 / A.A.I. Al-Bassam, U.A. Elani -
Apoptosis in Mice Liver Cells Caused by Formalin–containing Food: Normalization of HSP70 Overexpression by Chlorophyllin
Abstract Repeated exposure to formalin–containing foodstuff results in mice to overexpressing HSP70 (Heat Shock Protein, 70 kDa) and induction of apoptosis. This study tried to assess the efficacy of supplementation of chlorophyllin in inhibiting...
2015 / Alfonds Andrew Maramis, Mohamad Amin, Sumarno, Aloysius Duran Corebima -
Compact Disc Laser Cleaning for Polycarbonate Recovering
Abstract In this research work, laser cleaning of Compact Discs (CDs) through the employment of a 30W MOPFA Q-switched pulsed Yb:YAG fibre laser is investigated. The laser beam is used to ablate the metal substrate located between the polycarbonate...
2013 / C. Leone, S. Genna, A. Caggiano -
Single and Coorperative Bauxite Bioleaching by Silicate Bacteria
Abstract Silicate bacteria generally placed in the species Bacillus circulans and Bacillus mucilaginosus and Bacillus edaphics can liberated silicon from ores. Silicate bacteria from different resources have an obvious different abilities of...
2013 / Shoufa Zhan, Juanjuan Liu, Ye Chen, Desi Sun -
A Novel Optimization Algorithm based on the Natural Behavior of the Ant Colonies
Abstract Optimization problem is one of the most challenging problems that has received considerable attention over the last decade. Many metaheuristic methods have been proposed and successfully applied to find the optimal solution. Each technique...
2013 / Jiraporn Kiatwuthiamorn, Arit Thammano -
A Jet Penetration Model Incorporating Effects of Compressibility and Target Strength
Abstract Osipenko and Simonov[1] developed a model of compressible jet penetration that is self-consistent in that the same Hugoniot relation, Us = C0 + S1Up, was used both to describe...
2013 / William J. Flis -
Materials for future electronics2003 / Kwan S. Kwok
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Immunological characteristics of mesenchymal stem cells2013 / Cíntia de Vasconcellos Machado, Paloma Dias da Silva Telles, Ivana Lucia Oliveira Nascimento
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Shape memory materials
After being severely and quasi-plastically distorted, shape memory materials (SMMs) are able to recover their original shape at the presence of the right stimulus. In recent years we have seen significant progress from shape memory alloys (SMAs) to shape memory...
2010 / W.M. Huang, Z. Ding, C.C. Wang, J. Wei, Y. Zhao, et al. -
E-MRS in action2008 /