Isothermal melt crystallization kinetics of PVDF was investigated by differential scanning calorimetry. Thin PVDF film has been fabricated by the solvent casting technique using dimethylformamide (DMF). Then, the samples were melted and subsequently crystallized in the range of the crystallization temperature (Tc) between 138 and 145 °C. The crystallization kinetics was derived from Avrami equa...

Sponge iron (DRI) due to the high surface area, often shows a high tendency to re-oxidation and at some cases spontaneous combustion (autoignition). In this work, re-oxidation behavior and autoignition of sponge iron, produced from different types of iron ore has been investigated. Isothermal and non-isothermal re-oxidation experiments were carried out on each type of DRI and their autoignition...

The effect of heat treatment and alloying elements of copper and tin on the microstructure and mechanical properties of austempered ductile cast iron alloys is investigated. The austenitizing temperature of 890°C, the isothermal transformation (austempering) temperatures of 285, 335 and 375°C, and austempering times of 15, 30, 75 and 150 minutes are studied. The alloying elements of copper and ...

Accelerometer measurements made by Spirit and Opportunity during their entries through the martian atmosphere are reported. Vertical profiles of atmospheric density, pressure, and temperature with sub-km vertical resolution were obtained using these data between 10 and 100 km. Spirit’s temperature profile is ∼10 K warmer than Opportunity’s between 20 and 80 km. Unlike all other martian entry pr...

We have developed an analytical formula for the cure progress of epoxy systems as a function of both time t and temperature T. Complex viscosity h* or the storage modulus G' are used as the measures of the cure progress. The equation is based on the shape of the isothermal viscosity vs. time curves typically found for thermoset systems; temperature dependence of the isothermal parameters is est...

In-phase TMF crack growth testing with different lengths of the hold time at the maximum temperature of 550C has been conducted on Inconel 718 specimens. Focus has been on establishing a method for TMF crack growth testing and investigating the effect of high temperature hold times on the TMF crack growth of the material. The tests are compared to isothermal crack propagation tests and show go...

Polymerase chain reaction is the most widely used method for in vitro DNA amplification. However, it requires thermocycling to separate two DNA strands. In vivo, DNA is replicated by DNA polymerases with various accessory proteins, including a DNA helicase that acts to separate duplex DNA. We have devised a new in vitro isothermal DNA amplification method by mimicking this in vivo mechanism. He...

The isothermal compressibility of a general crystal is analyzed within classical density functional theory. Our approach can be used for homogeneous and unstrained crystals containing an arbitrarily high density of local defects. We start by coarse-graining the microscopic particle density and then obtain the long-wavelength limits of the correlation functions of elasticity theory and the therm...

The influence of calcination time on the phase transformation and crystallization kinetics of anodized titania nanotube arrays was studied using in-situ isothermal and non-isothermal synchrotron radiation diffraction from room temperature to 900 °C. Anatase first crystallized at 400 °C, while rutile crystallized at 550 °C. Isothermal heating of the anodized titania nanotubes by an increase in t...

Article history: Received 12 July 2014 Accepted 11 September 2014 Available online 20 September 2014 A single hit, hot isothermal plane strain compression (PSC) test was used to understand the microstructural evolution during large strain deformation of aluminium–copper–lithium alloy AA 2195. Hot isothermal PSC tests were conducted in the temperature range of 300–450 C and at strain rates of 0....