Biomass power plants with high efficiency are desired as a renewable energy resource. High efficiency can be obtained by increasing temperature and pressure. An upgrade of the material performance to high temperature material is therefore required in order to meet the increased demands due to the higher temperature and the more corrosive environment. In this study, the material’s high-temperatu...

Composite specimens were prepared by dispersion of various amounts of nano-sized Al2O3 fillers in a monomer system containing 60% Bis-GMA and 40% TEGDMA. For comparative purposes, composite samples containing micrometer size Al2O3 fillers were also prepared following the same procedure. The mechanical properties of the lightcured samples were assessed by three-point flexural strength, diametral...

True stress (·)­true strain (3⁄4) relationships until just before fracture, i.e., the plastic deformation limit, were estimated by the stepwise tensile test and the Bridgman equation for various metals and alloys with different crystal structures. The estimated ·­3⁄4 relationships were different from the nominal stress­strain curves including the conventional tensile properties. In the relation...

The effect of solidification behavior on the microstructures and mechanical properties of Ni-Cr-Fe superalloy investment casting is given. Metallographic and image analysis have been used to quantitatively examine the microstructures' evolution. For the parts with the thickness of 3 mm and 24 mm, the volume fraction and maximum equivalent radius of the Laves phase increases from 0.3% to 1.2%, f...

A Nd:YAG laser was used for joining a pseudoelastic Ti-51.5 at.% Ni shape memory alloy. Tensile tests on sheet metal of 0.5 mm thickness were performed at temperatures of -40°C, +20°C and 1 10°C, representing the martensitic, pseudoelastic and austenitic condition, respectively. Laser-welded specimens exhibited an ultimate tensile strength of about 820 MPa not affected by the test tempefature. ...

The deformation and fracture of the high strength steel which is used to fabricate grade X100 steel pipe were investigated at room temperature, on plate and pipe. Anisotropic behaviour was characterized by using tensile tests conducted along different directions. The fracture toughness of plate and pipe materials are compared using compact tension (CT) and Charpy V-notched tests. In both cases,...

Weldments are particularly susceptible to fracture due to defects, material property variations, and residual stresses created during the welding process. It is common in fracture assessments of welded structures to ignore these features; defects are often idealized to be crack-like, weld properties to be homogeneous, and residual stresses to be uniaxial and tensile or nonexistent. This paper p...

We present an experimental investigation of fracture in self-assembled gold nanoparticle mono- and multilayers attached to elastomer substrates and subjected to tensile stress. Imaging the fracture patterns down to the scale of single particles provides detailed information about the crack width distribution and allows us to compare the scaling of the average crack spacing as a function of stra...

Based on meso-damage mechanics and finite element analysis, the aim of this paper is to describe the feasibility of the Gurson-Tvergaard-Needleman (GTN) constitutive model in describing the tensile behavior of corroded reinforcing bars. The orthogonal test results showed that different fracture pattern and the related damage evolution process can be simulated by choosing different material para...