Textured silicon nitride (Si3N4) has been intensively studied over the past 15 years because of its use for achieving its superthermal and mechanical properties. In this review we present the fundamental aspects of the processing and anisotropic properties of textured Si3N4, with emphasis on the anisotropic and abnormal grain growth of β-Si3N4, texture structure and texture analysis, processing...

High temperature superconducting (HTS) materials need a high degree of texture over kilometerlong lengths in order to carry the maximum amount of supercurrent for electric power industry applications. One way to achieve the high degree of texture is with the coated conductor architecture. The coated conductor is comprised of the HTS layer epitaxially grown on a textured oxide buffer layer on a ...

When designing artificial vision systems, it may be useful to examine the solutions 0.5 billion years of biological evolution have produced. Recent studies of human vision; studies of macaque visual cortical function; and behavioural studies of bee vision, all indicate that different species have evolved related approaches for discriminating image textures. This common strategy uses short-range...

Desirable grain quality attributes vary depending upon the intended end use of grain. Environment, production practices and genetics are all of importance. Nutritional value of grain is most important for animal feed. Dry mill and alkaline cooked products require hard kernels with low breakage susceptibility and high protein concentration. Grain for these uses would best be produced under dryla...

For Pd thin films, microstructural changes involved during hydrogen cycling provide the information needed to predict and optimize film's mechanical strength. In this paper, a systematic study of morphology, microstructure, texture, stress has been performed on films loading deloading cycles at room temperature. similar morphology were prepared by magnetron sputtering substrates different compl...

Grain produced from doubled-haploid (DH) wheat lines, developed fromahardand a softgrained wheat cultivar, were bulked according to Pinb (puroindoline b) genotypes for an assessment of Chinese fresh noodle texture by a trained taste panel. Each DH line was designated as ‘soft’ or ‘hard’ grained, based on a PCR amplification of the wildtype, soft allele, or the mutant, hard allele. Theoretically...

This paper considers the crystallographic texture evolution in a 1008 low carbon steel. The texture evolution along uniaxial, plane strain and balanced biaxial strain states were measured. For uniaxial testing, grains tend to rotate such that the {111}〈11̄0〉 slip directions are aligned with the loading axis. For plane strain and balanced biaxial strain states, the majority of grains are distribu...

• Microstructural features of a thick-walled WAAM stainless steel part are investigated. Microstructure exhibits periodically repeating characteristics across the part. Oriented and textured structure with large grains at overlapping region adjacent fusion zones. Significant spatial variations in terms zone shape, grain structure, texture, phases. Wire arc additive manufacturing (WAAM) is class...

To improve the material characteristics of singleand poly-crystals of pure copper, the respective relationships between crystallographic orientations and microstructures, and the bending and mechanical properties were examined. And texture distribution is also analyzed. A grain refinement procedure was performed to obtain a grained structure. Furthermore, some analytical results related to crys...