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Online since: March 2009
Authors: S.P. Wilks, Amador Pérez-Tomás, Michael R. Jennings, James A. Covington, Michal Lodzinski, A. Castaing, R. Hammond, D. Connolly, S. Jones, J. Hopkins, T. Wilby, N. Rimmer, K. Baker, S. Conway, S. Evans, Philip Andrew Mawby, Owen James Guy
Thus, Si/SiC hetojunctions could provide viable solutions to a number of issues currently hindering all-SiC devices.
These grains or islands can be several μm wide and several hundred nm high.
The contrast between the grained structure, produced by MBE growth at 900ºC, and the smooth SiC substrate can be seen clearly from the SEM image of Si/SiC MESA diodes (Fig. 1c).
EBEUHV growth results in an even layer, with no large grains observed, though this layer is thought to have a low degree of crystallinity.
CVD layers were amorphous while MBE produced grained Si layers.
Online since: January 2014
Authors: Jian Mei, Jiang Hu, Li Xin Zheng, Jia Jun Zhang
Main reasons resulted in overheating: poor organizational parts of raw materials, high heating temperature or long heat preservation time resulting in a sharp grain growth, improper placement of workpiece in the heating zone of heat treatment equipment close to the electrodes or the workpiece attachment producing overheating. 
Burnt tissue grain where grain boundary has an oxidation network will become extremely coarse, so the performance of steel will be drastically reduced.
Meanwhile, preheating large or complex workpieces, adopting segmented heating or reducing heating rate are effective measures to eliminate grain growth factors ; l Make good preparation for re-heat treatment through repeated normalizing or annealing grain refinement,; l For the stone-shaped fracture, refine grain by high temperature deformation and then annealed prior to the final heating. 2.1.3 Poor Quenching Hardness Poor hardness refers to the hardness in the entire area of the workpiece or greater area cannot meet the technical requirements.
Some steel manufactures proposed a three-tier steel heat treating process, i.e. a dual phase steel quenching in addition to the conventional quenching method, then tempering, ultimately make a larger grain refined and significantly improving the mechanical performance.
Nevertheless, this refers to the flow rate and direction on the wall, so when design circulating system, parameters for cooled surface, nozzle size, number, distribution, pressure, distance and angle from the cooling surfaces are will be determined in advance. 
Online since: December 2012
Authors: Luigi Tricarico, Donato Sorgente
The microstructure of the fine-grained aluminium alloy ALNOVI-U.
Microstructure of the sheet with fine grains is shown in Fig. 1.
The material has a mean grain size of 8.3 µm measured by the linear intercept (Heyn) procedure.
Even though 5XXX aluminium alloys are not classified as heat-treatable alloys this technique gives high contrast in the grain boundary region since precipitates decorate the grain boundaries.
This procedure went on until the objective functions reached a value under a prescribed threshold value or a maximum predefined number of simulations was reached.
Online since: December 2011
Authors: Shinichi Furusawa, Hiroshi Ochiai, Khoji Murayama
Here, N is the number density of the carrier, Ze is the charge of the carrier, a is the hopping distance, Γ0 is the attempt frequency, Δ is the activation energy, and the f is a correlation factor whose value is approximately 1.
The cause of this large difference in ionic conductivity may lie in the anisotropy of the Li2ZnTi3O8 single crystal or the grain boundaries of the polycrystalline sample or both.
Probably, the difference in the ionic conductivity between the single crystal and the polycrystalline sample may originate from the presence of grain boundaries in the polycrystalline sample that may inhibit ionic conduction.
This difference may be also attributed to the presence of grain boundaries in the polycrystalline sample.
The activation energy for ionic conduction in the single crystal is smaller than the polycrystalline sample, perhaps due to grain boundary effects.
Online since: September 2013
Authors: Xiu Hong Hao, Ai Qin Zhang, Yan Min Wang
Therefore, in order to improve the adhesion of the asphalt and aggregate, a large number of related research works was carried out by Road engineers and scientific research units at home and abroad, and they hope to explore effective methods which are able to significantly improve the adhesion between asphalt and aggregate [1,2].
First, several close to the cube of granite aggregate grains, with the particle size of 13.2-19mm, were selected to be washed, dried, and fixed line.
Secondly, the granite aggregate grains were dipped into the modified asphalt which has been heated to 140℃ .
Thirdly, after the wrapped aggregate grains had cooled in air for 15min, they are cooked for 3min in the slight boiling water.
Secondly, nano-materials, with small grain size and large surface area can uniformly distribute in the asphalt and the structural asphalt ratio can be increased.
Online since: October 2014
Authors: Gao Feng Zhan, Zhen Gao, Fu Zhu, Wei Zhi Dong
Table 2   Factor level of fill soil level Factor A (Plasticity index) Factor B(moisture content) Factor C (degree of compaction) 1 25.3 7% 96% 2 19.9 11% 93% 3 15.7 15% 90% Table 3   Test scheme and results Test number Fator A Factor B Fctor C (Modulus of resilience)/Mpa 1 25.3 7% 96% 213.3 2 25.3 11% 93% 155.3 3 25.3 15% 90% 98.5 4 19.9 7% 93% 113.4 5 19.9 11% 90% 50.4 6 19.9 15% 96% 36.7 7 15.7 7% 90% 48.9 8 15.7 11% 93% 29.6 9 15.7 15% 96% 8.7 The analysis of test results In order to analyze the resilient modulus of remolded fine soil influenced by various factors, in accordance with Formula (2) to calculate the experimental factors from column i and the experimental values from line j
The Family of Compaction Curves for Fine-grained Soils and There Engineering Behaviors [D].
Study on Compaction Property, Project Character and Compaction Control of Fine-grained Soil Embankment [D].
Hu nan:Hu nan University,2007.”In Chinese” [3] Hui-Zhao Wang.Research on Classification, Compaction and Engineering Properties of Fine-Grained Soil [D].
The Compaction and Strength Behaviors of fine grained soils and the Compaction Standard of Clay Embankments in Moisture Area[J].
Online since: February 2012
Authors: Li Ming Bian, De Hong Jiang
In order to minimize the results that may arise because of the test dispersion, so as far as possible adopting the same pilot rock-block for a number of testing.
Rock abrastivity values and parts of physical and mechanical indexe value Rock names Abrasion value Ab Uniaxial compressive strength σc (MPa) Uniaxial tensile strength σt (MPa) Modulus of elasticity E (MPa) Poisson's ratio μ Fine-grained granite (slight weathering) 5.29 123.4 12.0 44.24 0.21 Coarse-grained granite (weathering) 4.94 81.26 8.03 32.6 0.24 Fine-grained granite (slight weathering) 3.60 161.3 15.45 48.8 0.23 Granite (weathering) 2.70 43.2 4.24 13.5 0.31 Fractured granite (weathering) 2.75 36.9 2.57 11.6 0.32 Lamprophyre (weathering) 4.19 141 13.58 46.6 0.21 Granite (weathering) 4.35 88.6 8.42 30.6 0.24 Fractured granite 2.72 53.9 5.02 17.9 0.28 Lamprophyre (slight weathering) 4.98 144.18 13.85 47.6 0.21 Coarse-grained granite(slight weathering) 5.36 100.99 9.67 29.36 0.25 Granite porphyry(slight weathering) 5.21 179.9 17.6 54.27 0.20 Wear Value of Rocks Physical and Mechanical Indexes of the Numerical Fitting Using the mathematical statistics method, we can get the following
Online since: July 2011
Authors: Lin Hou, Shou Ren Wang, Bo Zhu, Li Ying Yang
The sintering process companied by shrinkage or densification is essentially one of vacancy creep involving the diffusion of vacancies from the pore of radius r to a neighbouring grain boundary, under a driving force 2rs/r where rs is the surface energy.
The rate of increases of relative density can be calculated by the following equation [7], (1) Where , t the sinter time, γs the surface energy, m the number of pores per unit volume, η∞ the ultimate coefficient of viscosity, τc the critical shear stress.
Although sintering occurs fairly rapidly up to about 95% full density there are still some very small pores in TANC matrix sintered at 1200°C which are no longer able to anchor the grain boundaries against the grain growth forces, and hence the pores sinter very slowly, since they are stranded within the grains some distance from any boundary.
Online since: March 2011
Authors: Jian Feng Zhu, Wen Wen Yang, Yi Ping Gong
. %/) T 0 64 36 0 0 T 5 64.36 35.20 0.44 5.00 T 9 64.64 34.56 0.80 9.00 *TX refers to the sample number, and X is the targeted weight per cent of Ti2AlC phase Results and discussion Fig.1 shows XRD profiles of the products obtained from the starting composition of Ti-Al (T0) which were hot pressed at different sintering temperatures.
From Fig. 4(a), it can be seen that the monolithic TiAl intermetallics have large grain size structure and a few pores existed.
With increasing the C content in starting materials, the grain size of the as-fabricated composites becomes remarkably finer and distributed more uniformly (Fig. 4(b)) due to the effect of in situ formed fine grain sized Ti2AlC dispersed on the grain boundaries.
Online since: July 2005
Authors: Harushige Tsubakino, Atsushi Yamamoto, Masahiro Jotoku
Introduction In order to improve mechanical properties in magnesium and its alloys, grain-refinement is an effective way, and the authors have shown that heavy deformation and annealing at elevated temperatures resulted in fine-grained microstructures in AZ31 magnesium alloy [1].
Grains without dislocation substructures were observed.
Segregation of impurity atoms on grain boundaries seems to impede growth of nuclei of recrystallization.
A number of non-basal dislocations are observed to be operated even at room temperature.
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