The development of piezospectroscopic (PS) composites has enabled the creation of a non-destructive evaluation (NDE) technique which integrates piezospectroscopy, digital image correlation (DIC) and analytical multi-scale mechanics to map the elastic modulus of a coated material. The measured elastic modulus was represented as a normal distribution with a mean value (32.2 GPa) which is within 8...

Understanding the mechanical properties of ancient paintings is a major issue for conservation and restoration. One strategy is to measure the mechanical properties of reconstructed paints: however the aging process is poorly known, so it is also desirable to measure mechanical properties directly on ancient paint samples. Using nanoindentation, we have characterized submillimetric samples reco...

Dynamic pressure oil film bearing is an important mechanical component of the ship. With the development of large-sized ships, their dynamic pressure oil films often run at high speed and under heavy load generating high oil film pressure. In addition, due to the increased use of thin walled bearing shell with materials of low elastic modulus, the elastic deformation of the bearing shell which ...

Title of dissertation: HIGH ELASTIC MODULUS NANOPOWDER REINFORCED RESIN COMPOSITES FOR DENTAL APPLICATIONS Yijun Wang, Doctor of Philosophy, 2007 Dissertation directed by: Associate Professor Isabel K. Lloyd Department of Material Science and Engineering Dental restorations account for more than $3 billion dollars a year on the market. Among them, all-ceramic dental crowns draw more and more at...

The application of the indentation method to measure the elastic modulus of particles embedded in a composite is theoretically investigated in this paper by finite element simulation. The Oliver–Pharr method, which is widely used in commercial nanoindentation instruments, is used to probe the elastic modulus of the particle from the simulated indentation curve. The predicted elastic modulus is ...

AImtract--A modified non-dimensional group for modelling the elastic modulus of grinding wheels is proposed and thoroughly discussed. Specific attention is paid to the temperature effect on the variations of the modulus. A new factor called processing parameter is successfully defined to reflect the behaviour of a wheel influenced by the manufacturing processes. The well constructed 3-D diagram...

We report on experiments on the rheology of gels formed by diffusion-limited aggregation of neutrally buoyant colloidal particles. These gels form very weak solids, with the elastic modulus, G0svd, larger than the loss modulus, G00svd, and with both G0svd and G00svd exhibiting only a very weak frequency dependence. Upon small but finite strains g , 0.45 the elastic modulus increases roughly exp...