Specimens of the SA508-IV reactor pressure vessel (RPV) steel, containing 3.26 wt. % Ni and just 0.041 wt. % Cu, were irradiated at 290 ◦C to different displacement per atom (dpa) with 3.5 MeV Fe ions (Fe2+). Microstructure observation and nano-indentation hardness measurements were carried out. The Continuous Stiffness Measurement (CSM) of nano-indentation was used to obtain the indentation de...

OBJECTIVE The objective was to investigate the effect of intracanal antibiotic medicaments followed by ethylenediaminetetraacetic acid (EDTA) on the indentation properties and hardness of radicular dentin using a BioDent reference point indenter and a traditional microhardness technique, respectively. MATERIALS AND METHODS Specimens with intact root canal dentin surfaces and polished radicula...

Surface treatments of engineering materials are important for serviceable engineering components. One of the thermo-chemical surface treatments of steel based materials is the boriding process. In this study, low alloy steel substrates were borided by pack boriding process at 900 C. Experimental indentation tests were conducted on Dynamic Ultra-micro Hardness test machine, under applied peak lo...

Bone tissue mechanical properties are deemed a key component of bone strength, but their assessment requires invasive procedures. Here we validate a new instrument, a reference point indentation (RPI) instrument, for measuring these tissue properties in vivo. The RPI instrument performs bone microindentation testing (BMT) by inserting a probe assembly through the skin covering the tibia and, af...

Carefully designed indentation creep experiments and detailed finite-element computations were carried out in order to establish a robust and systematic method to extract creep properties accurately during indentation creep tests. Samples made from an Al–5.3mol%Mg solid-solution alloy were tested at temperatures ranging from 573 to 773K. Finite-element simulations confirmed that, for a power-la...

Yoshida reported a new transplantable tumor of the rat under the title of "the new strain of transplantable ascites sarcoma" (Yoshida, Muta . Sasaki, 1944). According to his own abstract: "This tumor shows the morphological picture corresponding to reticulosareoma, and, cytologically, the cell is several times as large as the leucocytes; its indented nucleus leans to one side, and a neutral-red...

Numerical investigation of indentation tests on a transversely isotropic elastic material by powerlaw shaped axisymmetric indenters Congrui Jin To cite this article: Congrui Jin (2016) Numerical investigation of indentation tests on a transversely isotropic elastic material by power-law shaped axisymmetric indenters, Journal of Adhesion Science and Technology, 30:11, 1223-1242, DOI: 10.1080/016...

Higher-level graphical and lexical punctuation (paragraphing, indentation, font changes, ...) must be taken into consideration in comprehension processes and text generation. In this paper, we analyse a class of text punctuation marks which includes lexical units (chapter, introduction). We give a method for the analysis of the semantics of these units, in terms of metalanguage. In addition, th...

It is well known that shot-peer&g treatment increases the fatigue resistance of metals. It is considered that this effect is caused by compressive residual stresses arising in the treated surface. Usually the mean value of residual stress is taken into consideration to explain this phenomenon but the real residual stress state must be inhomogeneous due to the inhomogeneous character of deformat...

In this paper, we investigated the mechanism of dividing a 2Dobject border into a set of local and global indentation and protrusion segments by extending the classic curvature scale-space filtering method. The resultant segments, arranged in hierarchical structures, can represent the object shape. Applying this technique, we derived a border irregularity measure for pigmented skin lesions. The...