The effect of aging time and temperature on the microstructure and mechanical properties of Ti-13V-11Cr-3Al and Ti-13V-11Cr-3Al-0.2C was studied. The carbon addition increases the rate of age hardening as well as the peak hardness of aged samples. The presence of titanium carbides in Ti-13V-11Cr-3Al-0.2C limits grain growth during the process. The observations in this work are discussed in ...

The microstructural basis of the characteristic nonlinear mechanics of biopolymer networks remains unclear. We present a 3D network model of realistic, cross-linked semiflexible fibers to study strain-stiffening and the effect of fiber volume-occupancy. We identify two structural parameters, namely, network connectivity and fiber entanglements, that fully govern the nonlinear response from smal...

Figure 2. Effect sizes (Cohen’s d) for fiber tract ROI differences in tensor FA and FODL2 measures between controls and LTLE or RTLE patients. Asterisks indicate p<0.01, one-way ANCOVA between the three groups separately for each fiber, with age as regressor. Application of automated fiber tract identification and Restriction Spectrum Imaging to study microstructural changes in white matter tra...

The initial microstructure plays an important role in determining the spatial and temporal evolution of the microstructure during friction stir welding (FSW). The overall kinetics of microstructural evolution is location sensitive and the effect of the process strain, strain rate and thermal cycle creates complexities. In the present study, magnesium based WE43 alloy has been welded employing t...

2014 This paper aims towards a presentation of the general structure of the phenomenological models presently used for the macroscopic description of metal plasticity and a discussion of their interaction with microstructural investigation. Attention is concentrated on internal variables modelization which, from the very beginning, must include some ideas about the microstructural material stat...

In this study, a novel unifi ed framework for the study of both microstructural evolution and the mechanical property quantifi cation is proposed. The multistate Potts model is used to simulate the microstructural evolution, whereas a volume-compensated particle method (VCPM) is used for the mechanical property quantifi cation of the steady state microstructure. The VCPM proposed by Chen and co...

Fe-Mn-C austenitic steels exhibit outstanding high-ductile deformation in their plastic regions along with significant microstructural evolution. In this study, to characterize the microstructural evolution during deformation of these steels, line-profile and texture analyses were carried out using X-ray diffraction. The convolutional multiple whole profile fitting procedure was used for a line...

BACKGROUND AND PURPOSE Abnormal cerebral microstructure has been documented in term neonates with congenital heart disease, portending risk for injury and poor neurodevelopmental outcome. Our hypothesis was that preterm neonates with congenital heart disease would demonstrate diffuse cerebral microstructural abnormalities when compared with critically ill neonates without congenital heart disea...

Highly transparent and luminescent CaMoO4:Eu/Ag composite films were fabricated on glass substrates as multifunctional antireflective (AR) coatings. The films were deposited through a combination of a sol–gel dip-coating technique and a hot water treatment. With the addition of an aluminum source in coating solutions, the sol–gel-derived films underwent a remarkable microstructural change durin...

Diffusion tensor imaging (DTI) of the substantia nigra has shown promise in detecting and quantifying neurodegeneration in Parkinson disease (PD). It remains unknown, however, whether differences in microstructural changes within the basal ganglia underlie PD motor subtypes. We investigated microstructural changes within the basal ganglia of mild to moderately affected PD patients using DTI and...