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Online since: August 2011
Authors: Hiroyuki Toda, Kentaro Uesugi, Masakazu Kobayashi, Yoshio Suzuki
When a sufficient number of microstructural features is dispersed in 3D space, the Delaunay tessellation algorithm is used to obtain local strain distribution.
Introduction It is reasonable to assume that local plastic strain deviates from the continuum assumption in practical materials because a great number of particles, secondary phases and microscopic defects are usually embedded in real materials.
The typical examples of such microscopic defects are voids, grain boundary and micro cracks.
Nakazawa et al., have proposed a landscape method in whcih a certain number of larger particles are regarded as landmark particles to obtain approximate displacement of a material.
The dispersion particles are agglomerated significantly along elongated grain boundary that is caused by the rolling process.
Introduction It is reasonable to assume that local plastic strain deviates from the continuum assumption in practical materials because a great number of particles, secondary phases and microscopic defects are usually embedded in real materials.
The typical examples of such microscopic defects are voids, grain boundary and micro cracks.
Nakazawa et al., have proposed a landscape method in whcih a certain number of larger particles are regarded as landmark particles to obtain approximate displacement of a material.
The dispersion particles are agglomerated significantly along elongated grain boundary that is caused by the rolling process.
Online since: September 2011
Authors: V. Sreenivas, S. Sriharsha, C. Narasimham
Types of Cloud Computing:
Fig. 3
Public Cloud:
Public cloud or external cloud describes cloud computing in the traditional mainstream sense, whereby resources are dynamically provisioned on a fine-grained, self-service basis over the Internet via web applications/web services, from an off-site third-party provider who shares resources and bills on a fine-grained utility computing basis.
Private Cloud: Private cloud (also called internal cloud or corporate cloud) is a marketing term for a proprietary computing architecture that provides hosted services to a limited number of people behind a firewall.
Although cloud computing is often said to be the future of the industry, the hybrid model is more prevalent for a number of reasons.
Fig. 5 Methods: Server Virtualization: Server Virtualization is the masking of server resources including the number and the identity of individual physical servers, processors and operating systems from server uses.
Private Cloud: Private cloud (also called internal cloud or corporate cloud) is a marketing term for a proprietary computing architecture that provides hosted services to a limited number of people behind a firewall.
Although cloud computing is often said to be the future of the industry, the hybrid model is more prevalent for a number of reasons.
Fig. 5 Methods: Server Virtualization: Server Virtualization is the masking of server resources including the number and the identity of individual physical servers, processors and operating systems from server uses.
Online since: December 2013
Authors: Olga B. Nazarenko, Yuliya Amelkovich, Alexander P. Ilyin, Alexander I. Sechin
. %), particle-particle correlation arising at low-volume fractions, large number density of particles per particle volume (106–108 particles/m3), extensive interfacial area between the polymer and the nanoparticles, short distances between particles [3].
Coating resulted in the reduced number of the filler agglomerates and enhanced interaction between the polymer macromolecules and the nanopowder particles.
Nanoparticles as crystallization centers contribute to the formation of fine-grained structure.
The agglomerate size and their number increase with the increasing concentration of fillers in polyethylene.
Nanoparticles are the crystallization centers and participate in the formation of fine-grained structure.
Coating resulted in the reduced number of the filler agglomerates and enhanced interaction between the polymer macromolecules and the nanopowder particles.
Nanoparticles as crystallization centers contribute to the formation of fine-grained structure.
The agglomerate size and their number increase with the increasing concentration of fillers in polyethylene.
Nanoparticles are the crystallization centers and participate in the formation of fine-grained structure.
Online since: April 2011
Authors: Sho Fujiwara, Daisuke Kobayashi, Hiroki Ishihara, Masaru Shimomura, Kenji Murakami
The technique can form a complicated chemical compound and solid solution derived from the precursor solution, and control a grain size and microstructure of the formed film.
Film thickness can be controlled digitally by a number of times of the arch discharge.
The film thickness or the number of formed particles are controlled by changing the number of times of discharge, 1, 5, 10 and 50 times.
Actually, the SPD-prepared Pt layer consists of Pt small islands and SnO2 large grains as shown in Fig. 2.
Film thickness can be controlled digitally by a number of times of the arch discharge.
The film thickness or the number of formed particles are controlled by changing the number of times of discharge, 1, 5, 10 and 50 times.
Actually, the SPD-prepared Pt layer consists of Pt small islands and SnO2 large grains as shown in Fig. 2.
Online since: June 2013
Authors: Zhi Gao Xu, Chao Ning, Jing Ma, Xiang Bin Li
It takes a lot of manpower and material resources to discriminate defects by evaluating a large number of skiagrams.
N=n×n is the number of slice image grid, M is the total number of projection.
The characteristic of SRM is its simple composition, generally by steel shell, insulating layer, liner and grain.
Reconstruction results shows that shell, insulating layer and grain can be exactly identified.
N=n×n is the number of slice image grid, M is the total number of projection.
The characteristic of SRM is its simple composition, generally by steel shell, insulating layer, liner and grain.
Reconstruction results shows that shell, insulating layer and grain can be exactly identified.
Online since: November 2025
Authors: Stanislav Němeček, Pavel Kubovec
Although there are a number of articles on additive manufacturing of H13 steel tools, no detail study has been found that compares the properties of tools made by different AM technologies.
A 6 mm diameter Al2O3 ball was used for the measurements at a loading force of 10 N and a number of 10000 cycles.
Sample PBF, mag. 500x Sample DED, mag. 500x Sample BJ, mag. 500x In the sample prepared by BJ in the set up of the equipment supplier recommendations, the sintering did not result in complete diffusion of the individual printed layers and a number of pores remained in the matrix, as shown in Fig. 2.
The image shows no interconnection of the adjacent layers and only the melting of individual grains during sintering is evident.
This is likely to be due to the formation of coarser-grained carbides during printing, as confirmed by electron microscopy inspection of the fracture surface.
A 6 mm diameter Al2O3 ball was used for the measurements at a loading force of 10 N and a number of 10000 cycles.
Sample PBF, mag. 500x Sample DED, mag. 500x Sample BJ, mag. 500x In the sample prepared by BJ in the set up of the equipment supplier recommendations, the sintering did not result in complete diffusion of the individual printed layers and a number of pores remained in the matrix, as shown in Fig. 2.
The image shows no interconnection of the adjacent layers and only the melting of individual grains during sintering is evident.
This is likely to be due to the formation of coarser-grained carbides during printing, as confirmed by electron microscopy inspection of the fracture surface.
Online since: December 2012
Authors: Jian Liang Ren, Rui Qiang Pang, Neng Quan Duan
Basic theoretical and method of residual stress measurement by XRD
1.1 Test principle
Grains in the metal material can be seen as composed of layers of crystal surface.
After material being forced, the change of distance between different layers of crystal surface in different grains has something to do with the orientation of the grain and this change may also cause the movement of diffraction angle 2θ.
The principle of measuring the residual stress by XRD is that, when the grain is under certain stress, diffract the grain by X-ray, measure the distance under this condition and compare it with that under no stress.
The grain strain can be obtained from the change of distance between different layers of crystal surface and the stress can be got according to the grain strain [4-5].
Measure the diffraction information of different incident angles ψ on certain diffraction angle and a series numbers can be got.
After material being forced, the change of distance between different layers of crystal surface in different grains has something to do with the orientation of the grain and this change may also cause the movement of diffraction angle 2θ.
The principle of measuring the residual stress by XRD is that, when the grain is under certain stress, diffract the grain by X-ray, measure the distance under this condition and compare it with that under no stress.
The grain strain can be obtained from the change of distance between different layers of crystal surface and the stress can be got according to the grain strain [4-5].
Measure the diffraction information of different incident angles ψ on certain diffraction angle and a series numbers can be got.
Online since: July 2006
Authors: Stewart W. Williams, Manthana Jariyaboon, Alison J. Davenport, Cristiano Padovani, Napachat Tareelap, Eirian Siggs, Brian J. Connolly
A number of researchers have investigated the corrosion susceptibility of FSW in aluminium alloys,
e.g. [5-16], finding corrosion in the HAZ and/or nugget region.
Precipitation at grain boundaries leads to intergranular attack owing to depletion of copper in the adjacent matrix.
This is supported by synchrotron X-ray tomography measurements (Fig. 2), which show that the attack in the HAZ takes the form of very narrow attack fronts along grain boundaries that become wider with time.
At lower temperatures (which can be correlated with the HAZ of a weld with a low toolpiece rotation speed), there is a slight increase in intergranular attack owing to precipitation at grain boundaries, but no change in cathodic reactivity.
The sample is a section of a 500 µm diameter pin removed from the nugget of a friction stir weld in AA2024. 19 hours 32 hours with low rotation speeds, or the HAZ of welds with high rotation speeds) there is substantial intergranular attack associated with precipitation of S-phase at grain boundaries.
Precipitation at grain boundaries leads to intergranular attack owing to depletion of copper in the adjacent matrix.
This is supported by synchrotron X-ray tomography measurements (Fig. 2), which show that the attack in the HAZ takes the form of very narrow attack fronts along grain boundaries that become wider with time.
At lower temperatures (which can be correlated with the HAZ of a weld with a low toolpiece rotation speed), there is a slight increase in intergranular attack owing to precipitation at grain boundaries, but no change in cathodic reactivity.
The sample is a section of a 500 µm diameter pin removed from the nugget of a friction stir weld in AA2024. 19 hours 32 hours with low rotation speeds, or the HAZ of welds with high rotation speeds) there is substantial intergranular attack associated with precipitation of S-phase at grain boundaries.
Online since: October 2024
Authors: Mohamad El Mehtedi, Pasquale Buonadonna, Rayane El Mohtadi, Francesco Aymerich, Noomane Ben Khalifa, Mauro Carta, Gabriela Loi
SPD is a commonly utilized method for creating materials with a fine-grained structure that enhances strength and fracture toughness [22].
To reveal the grain microstructure, the samples were electropolished with H3PO4 at 75°C and then etched with Barker’s reagent at 15 volts for 30s.
The recrystallization of the grains could be stacked by the presence of oxide around the original chips.
It is characterized by higher elongated grains in the RD with respect to the cross-section.
The heat treatment appears to not affect the shape of the grains.
To reveal the grain microstructure, the samples were electropolished with H3PO4 at 75°C and then etched with Barker’s reagent at 15 volts for 30s.
The recrystallization of the grains could be stacked by the presence of oxide around the original chips.
It is characterized by higher elongated grains in the RD with respect to the cross-section.
The heat treatment appears to not affect the shape of the grains.
Online since: June 2014
Authors: Tuty Asma Abu Bakar, Ali Ourdjini, Hooi Peng Lim
Sn whiskers are usually pure single crystals or grains of Sn with filament or hair-like structures that grow spontaneously from electroplated polycrystalline Sn surfaces.
Due to the large number of whiskers, the average of five longest whiskers per sample will be recorded.
Some whiskers appear to be growing out of the Sn grains instead of grain boundary as shown in Fig. 1b.
Previous works reported that thicker coatings (larger grain sizes) tend to grow fewer whiskers [7].
The fact that immersion Sn thickness is limited by the process itself, growth of whiskers may be related to other factors apart from grain size.
Due to the large number of whiskers, the average of five longest whiskers per sample will be recorded.
Some whiskers appear to be growing out of the Sn grains instead of grain boundary as shown in Fig. 1b.
Previous works reported that thicker coatings (larger grain sizes) tend to grow fewer whiskers [7].
The fact that immersion Sn thickness is limited by the process itself, growth of whiskers may be related to other factors apart from grain size.