Pitch-matrix composites for deicing, electromagnetic shielding and strain sensing have been developed by using carbon fiber (discontinuous) and carbon black as electrically conductive fillers. A composite with carbon fiber (5 vol%) as the sole filler is effective for strain sensing, which functions by the electrical resistivity increasing reversibly with tensile strain. A composite with carbon ...

The damage in epitaxial Co& films 500 nm thick grown on Si( 111) produced by roomtemperature implantation of 150 keV **Si were investigated by 2-MeV 4He channeling spectrometry, double-crystal x-ray diffractometry, and electrical resistivity measurements. The damage in the films can be categorized into two types. In lightly (heavily) damaged CoSi, the damage is in the form of point-like (extend...

It is well known that the electric resistivity of concrete is one of the useful durability indicators for chloride induced deterioration of concrete structures. In this study, the influence of air temperature and relative water content ratio in concrete on some measuring results of the electric resistivity was investigated by using the concrete specimens which were exposed in tidal zone. In add...

Annealing Cu and dilute Cu(Ti), Cu(Sn) and Cu(Al) alloy films resulted in the strengthening of film texture, with the strongest <111> fiber texture being found for Cu(Ti). Annealing also resulted in a decrease of electrical resistivity and the growth of grains, with the largest grain size and lowest resistivity being seen for pure Cu itself. Among the alloy films, the lowest resistivity was fou...

We describe how the contribution of crystallographic texture to the anisotropy of the resistivity of polycrystalline samples can be estimated by averaging over crystallographic orientations through a geometric mean approach. The calculation takes into account the orientation distribution refined from neutron diffraction data and literature values for the single crystal resistivity tensor. The e...

A.P. Aizebeokhai ( ) Department of Physics, College of Science and Technology, Covenant University, Ota, Ogun State, Nigeria e-mail: [email protected] Abstract The presence of contaminants in the environment requires a precise characterization of the nature and extent of contamination for effective remediation. Conventional environmental monitoring has focused largely on point s...

Pb0.4Bi1.6Sr2CaCu2O8+x (Bi(Pb)−2212) single crystal samples were studied using transmission electron microscopy (TEM), ab−plane (ρab) and c−axis (ρc) resistivity, and high resolution angle-resolved ultraviolet photoemission spectroscopy (ARUPS). TEM reveals that the modulation in the b−axis for Pb(0.4)−doped Bi(Pb)−2212 is dominantly of Pb−type that is not sensitive to the oxygen content of the...

The negative and positive piezoresistivity in continuous carbon fiber epoxy-matrix composite has been clarified. The negative piezoresistivity associated with the increase of the through-thickness resistivity upon longitudinal tension and decrease in the throughthickness resistivity upon longitudinal compression is practically attractive for strain sensing and is attributed to the decrease in t...

Temperature dependent electrical resistivity, crystal structure and heat capacity measurements reveal a resistivity drop and electrical transport behavior change corresponding to a structural change near 400 K in Ca(3)Co(4)O(9). The lattice parameter c varies smoothly with increasing temperature while anomalies in a, b(1) and b(2) lattice parameters occur near 400 K. The Ca site in the Ca(2)CoO...

For the understandings of the magnetohydrodynamic (MHD) characteristics in plasma, the spectrum of the resistive MHD modes are investigated in detail by solving the eigenvalue problem of the reduced MHD equations in cylindrical tokamak plasmas. The eigenvalues and eigenfunctions of the resistive MHD modes are clarified for small toroidal and poloidal mode numbers, and the discrete eigenvalues w...