Polyamide 6 / nitrile butadiene rubber / nanoclay (PA6/NBR/clay) nanocomposite has gathered wide acceptance in industry. Laser welding, as a fabrication method, is applied to welding of polymer nanocomposites. In this study, the input parameters (clay (Closite 30B) content, laser power, scan velocity and stand-off-distance) are varied to achieve the best responses (tensile strength of welds). R...

This paper analyses the shape effect on the tensile strength of axisymmetric rock specimens by an improved adaptive dynamic relaxation method. It is shown that the present approach is convenient and &cient. Numerical results for spheroidal specimens with different shapes reveal the variation of stress distributions along the loading axes and suggest that loading along the shorter principal axis...

this research is aimed at the effect of carboxymethyl cellulose(cmc) on the mechanical properties of paper made from virgin pulp in paper. in this work, cmc was added to pulp furnished in 0%, 0.5%, 1%, and 1.5% dosages. also pulp fibers of furnishes (60hw:40sw) formed by mixing bleached softwood and bleached hardwood pulps were prepared from russia factory. then the 80-gram handsheets were prep...

Natural fibers are widely used as reinforcing material in composites. Pine needles can be used as natural fibers which are abundantly found in the hilly areas of India. A study on tensile test of pine needles and the crack analysis of pine needles short fiber reinforced composites has been presented in this paper.ASTM D638-10 standard is followed for tensile testing and a number of specimen is ...

One of the major, but often overlooked, challenges toward high end applications of nanocelluloses is to maintain their high mechanical properties under hydrated or even fully wet conditions. As such, permanent covalent cross-linking or surface hydrophobization are viable approaches, however, the former may hamper processability and the latter may have adverse effect on interfibrillar bonding an...

In steep soil-mantled landscapes, the initiation of shallow landslides is strongly controlled by the distribution of vegetation, whose roots reinforce the soil. The magnitude of root reinforcement depends on the number, diameter distribution, orientation and the mechanical properties of roots that cross potential failure planes. Understanding how these properties vary in space and time in fores...

The purpose of this study was to determine suture-holding properties of tissue-engineered neocartilage relative to native articular cartilage. To this end, suture pull-out strength was quantified for native articular cartilage and for neocartilages possessing various mechanical properties. Suture-holding properties were examined in vitro and in vivo. Neocartilage from bovine chondrocytes was en...

Abstract Portland composite cement is a type of blended produced by the Indonesian factories where fly ash as one ingredient and production based on efforts to reduce CO 2 emissions in process. This research part sustainability infrastructure development which carried out through use cementitious material manufacture foam concrete. The purpose this paper was contribute understanding early age v...