This paper presents the results of an experimental study on the effect of limestone powder on the compressive strength, tensile behavior, and micromechanical parameters of a highly ductile cement composite incorporating limestone powder. Four mixtures were determined according to the replacement ratio of cement with limestone powder. A series of experiments including compressive strength, uniax...

Myocardial infarction was experimentally induced in rat hearts and harvested immediately, 7, 14 and 28 days after the infarction induction. Anterior wall infarct samples underwent biaxial tensile and uniaxial compressive testing. Orientation of collagen fibres was analysed following mechanical testing. In this paper, we present the tensile and compressive stress-strain raw data, the calculated ...

The current study is focused on exploring the possibility of reinforcing syntactic foams with carbon nanofibers (CNFs). Syntactic foams are hollow, particle-filled composites that are widely used in marine structures and are now finding applications in other modes of transportation due to their high stiffness-to-weight ratio. The compressive properties of syntactic foams reinforced with CNFs ar...

Based on systematic first principles calculations, we investigate Sr surface segregation (SSS) in La(1-x)Sr(x)Co(1-y)Fe(y)O(3-δ) (LSCF) (a typical perovskite ABO(3) compound), a bottleneck causing efficiency degradation of solid oxide fuel cells. We identify two basic thermodynamic driving forces for SSS and suggest two possible ways to suppress SSS: applying compressive strain and reducing sur...

Glassy Pd85 xCuxSi10P5 (x 1⁄4 5{12 at%) alloys with a supercooled liquid region ( Tx) of 51–73K were synthesized despite the low metalloid content. The glassy Pd79Cu6Si10P5 alloy exhibits the largest Tx of 73K in the present alloy system and its critical diameter for glass formation reaches 5mm by copper mold casting. For the bulk glassy Pd79Cu6Si10P5 alloy, the Young’s modulus, compressive yie...

Successful synthesis of the phenylisopropyl hexagermane (Chem. Commun. 2013, 49, 8380) offers an exciting opportunity to synthesize a new class of low-dimensional germanium compounds with novel optical and electronic properties. Using the phenylisopropyl hexagermane as a model template, we have performed an ab initio study of electronic properties of polygermanes. Our density functional theory ...

Superelastic NiTi and NiTi-TiC composites were subjected to static uniaxial compressive loading while neutron diffraction spectra were simultaneously acquired. A methodology was established to obtain quantitative strain, texture and phase volume fraction information during the forward and reverse stress-induced martensitic transformation. Despite the presence of 10 vol. % of stiff TiC particles...

By applying tensile local uniaxial strain on 5 nm of drain region and compressive local uniaxial strain on 2.5 nm of source and 2.5 nm of channel regions of graphene nanoribbon tunneling field-effect transistor (GNR-TFET), we propose a new bandgap-engineered (BE) GNR-TFET. Simulation of the suggested device is done based on non-equilibrium Green’s function (NEGF) method by a mode-space approach...

Polymethylmethacrylate (PMMA) is a biocompatible alloplastic material used in craniofacial reconstruction and as bone cement and antibiotic-impregnated spacers in orthopaedics. The polymerization of PMMA in-situ causes tissue necrosis and other complications due to the long surgical times associated with mixing and shaping the PMMA. PMMA is a thermoplastic acrylic resin suitable for extrusion i...