The present study was carried out to investigate the effect of alloying elements and thermo-mechanical treatment (TMT) i.e. hot rolling and forging with different reduction ratios on the hardness (HV) and impact toughness (J) of heat-treated low alloy steels. An understanding of the combined effect of TMT and alloying elements and by measuring hardness, impact toughness, resulting from differen...

Co-deposition of zinc metal matrix with ZnO composite was fabricated from electrolytic chloride based coating consisting of 20-40g/L ZnO particle. The resulting composite coatings were characterized using high optic microscope (OPM). The corrosion resistance properties of Zn-ZnO composite coatings were measure using linear polarization in 3.5% NaCl solution. The variation of amount of ZnO %wt. ...

Formulas governing fixed orbital hardnesses and their relation to the hardness kernel are derived. It is shown how the orbital hardness matrix and its inverse matrix, the orbital softness matrix, may thus be directly calculated, and then the total chemical hardness, softness, and electronegativity of a molecular species. These quantities are calculated for the molecule HCN, using Dirac exchange...

The factors necessary to obtain an optimal heat treatment that influence the hardness and resistivity of Al-6Si-0.5Mg casting alloys with Cu or/and Ni additions were investigated. The alloys were homogenised (24hr at 500C), solutionized (2hr at 540C) and artificially ageing at various times and temperatures. The alloys were aged isochronally for 60 minutes at temperatures up to 400C and isother...

Statistically and causally meaningful relationships are established between starch molecular structure (the molecular distribution of branched starch and the chain length distribution of debranched starch) and texture (hardness and stickiness) of cooked rice grains. The amounts of amylose chains with degree of polymerization (DP) 100-20,000, and of long amylopectin chains, positively correlated...

Various “hardness” measures have been studied for resolution, providing theoretical insight into the proof complexity of resolution and its fragments, as well as explanations for the hardness of instances in SAT solving. In this report we aim at a unified view of a number of hardness measures, including different measures of width, space and size of resolution proofs. We also extend these measu...

The hardness variation and the behaviour of precipitation during the process of three stage ageing of three Al-Cu-Mg alloys were investigated using micro-hardness and differential scanning calorimetry (DSC). To facilitate the determination of the optimised heat treatment condition, a uniform design method was employed by which the influences of three stages interrupted ageing on the hardness an...

Genetic algorithm (GA) researchers have long desired to describe the key characteristics of GA-hardness. Unfortunately this goal has remained largely unmet. In this paper, we describe a new way for evaluating GA-hardness that is based on the foundations of formal complexity theory. In particular, a GA-reduction is introduced. Using this reduction, we show that a reasonable definition of "GA-har...

The protonation mechanism of pyrrole is investigated in terms of various global and regional (fragment) hardness (softness) parameters and related quantities in order to identify the most sensitive criteria indicating the lmown o.-preference for electrophilic substitution in this molecule. Both rigid and relaxed hardness data are discussed. Numerical results for the H+... pyrrole system, obtain...