The aim of this study was to determine the effect metal surface roughness on mechanical performance titanium-unidirectional C/PEKK composite joints. Various morphologies were obtained by grit-blasting titanium using different blasting pressures. Subsequently, test coupons manufactured co-consolidating in an autoclave. Topographical characterization and evaluation interfacial fracture toughness ...

2014 The microstructural properties of sputtered zinc oxide, ZnO, were investigated and related to their effective surface acoustic wave, SAW, transducer capabilities. SAW transducer films were fabricated on glass using different deposition parameters to produce different levels of transducer efficiency. The ZnO film microstructure was analysed using X-ray diffraction, surface profilometer and ...

Fe/Si multilayers with antiferromagnetic interlayer coupling have been grown via ion-beam sputtering on both glass and single-crystal substrates. High-angle x-ray diffraction measurements show that both sets of films have narrow Fe peaks, implying a large crystallite size and crystalline iron silicide spacer layers. Low-angle x-ray diffraction measurements show that films grown on glass have ro...

In this study, a pattern recognition system has been developed for the discrimination of multiple sclerosis (MS) from cerebral microangiopathy (CM) lesions based on computer-assisted texture analysis of magnetic resonance images. Twenty-three textural features were calculated from MS and CM regions of interest, delineated by experienced radiologists on fluid attenuated inversion recovery images...

Much of the vast literature on the integral during the last two centuries concerns extending the class of integrable functions. In contrast, our viewpoint is akin to that taken by Hassler Whitney [Geometric integration theory, Princeton Univ. Press, Princeton, NJ, 1957] and by geometric measure theorists because we extend the class of integrable domains. Let oi be an «-form defined on Rm . We s...

We report here for the first time the synthesis of two novel hierarchical homogeneous nanoarchitectures of TiO2 nanorods branched TiO2 nanotube arrays (BTs) and P25-coated TiO2 nanotube arrays (PCTs) using two-step method including electrochemical anodization and hydrothermal modification process. Then the photocurrent densities versus applied potentials of BTs, PCTs, and pure TiO2 nanotube arr...

PURPOSE The aim of this study was to evaluate the characteristics of various titanium surfaces modified by cold plasma nitriding in terms of adhesion and proliferation of rat osteoblastlike cells. MATERIALS AND METHODS Samples of grade 2 titanium were subjected to three different surface modification processes: polishing, nitriding by plasma direct current, and nitriding by cathodic cage disc...

Subjects made roughness judgments of textured surfaces made of raised elements, while holding stick-like probes or through a rigid sheath mounted on the fingertip. These rigid links, which impose vibratory coding of roughness, were compared with the finger (bare or covered with a compliant glove), using magnitude-estimation and roughness differentiation tasks. All end effectors led to an increa...

The surface roughness of the substrate itself could play an important role for the bonding at the interface. In this paper, a correlation of the surface roughness of a rigid alumina substrate and its 2D model of estimated surface area has been studied using Atomic Force Microscopy (AFM). With rougher surface, the adhesive strength between a deposited copper film and the alumina substrate is hig...

The voice changes with normal aging. For instance, older adults may have more extreme values on measures of irregularities in fundamental frequency (jitter) and intensity (shimmer) than the voices of younger adults [1]. Listeners perceive such voices to be rougher [2] and perform more poorly on word recognition when speech has been synthetically jittered [3]. Given that some older adults have v...