The influence of the pore structure characteristics in open-porous cellular materials on their macroscopic elastic behaviour is investigated by considering three important microstructural features viz. relative density, pore-size distribution, and pore-wall thickness. To this end, a microstructure-informed modelling approach presented, where all elements three-dimensional (3-d) can be controlle...

Designing optimal microstructures for solid oxide fuel cell (SOFC) electrodes is complicated due to the multitude of electro-chemo-physical phenomena taking place simultaneously that directly affect working conditions of a SOFC electrode and its performance. In this study, a new design paradigm is presented to obtain a balance between electrochemical sites in the form of triple phase boundary (...

BACKGROUND High resolution μCT, and combined μPET/CT have emerged as non-invasive techniques to enhance or even replace dual energy X-ray absorptiometry (DXA) as the current preferred approach for fragility fracture risk assessment. The aim of this study was to assess the ability of µPET/CT imaging to differentiate changes in rat bone tissue density and microstructure induced by metabolic bone ...

AISI 4340 steel is one of the super strong steels that can be selected for different applications. By designing the proper cycles of heat treatment, the optimum microstructure and properties of this steel can be achieved. In this study, different heat treatment cycles were introduced to achieve the optimum microstructure and improve the mechanical and magnetic properties of AISI 4340 steel. The...

in order to evaluate the efficiency of empirical competition models for simulation of sugar beet (beta vulgaris l.) yield at interference with redroot pigweed (amaranthus retroflexus l.), a factorial experiment based on randomized complete block design with three replications was carried out. factors were weed densities (d1=1, d2= 4, d3= 8, d4=12 and d5=16 plants m-1 of row) and relative time o...

Silica refractory bricks are used especially in the metallurgical industries, due to desirable properties such as high melting point, rigidity, and high temperatures strength. In this research, different amount of SiC were added to Silica refractory containing different binders such as Borax, Boric acid, Calcium nitride, Sodium tri poly phosphate, Sodium hexa meta phosphate (SHMP) and lime. Phy...

A novel Ti-6.38Al-3.87V-2.43Mo alloy was designed with a cluster formula of 12[Al-Ti12] (V0.75Mo0.25Ti2)+4[Al-Ti12](Al3) by replacing Ti Mo/V on the basis Ti-Al congruent alloy. The effects laser power and scanning speed molten pool size, surface roughness, relative density, microstructure, micro-hardness single-track bulk samples prepared via additive manufacturing (LAM) were investigated. res...

Silica refractory bricks are used especially in the metallurgical industries, due to desirable properties such as particularly their high melting point and their rigidity and strength at high temperatures. In this research, different amount of SiC were added to Silica refractory containing different binders such as Borax, Boric acid, Calcium nitride, Sodium tri poly phosphate, Sodium hexametaph...

Acoustic cloak using anisotropic density or pentamode (PM) material is capable of concealing target from any detective acoustic wave. The pentamode material scheme is more promising due to its solid phase feature and broadband efficiency [1, 2]. However, perfect PM material in theory doesn’t have static stability, and therefore some imperfection in practically designed microstructure PM materia...