Stainless steel (SS) is used for many commercial and industrial applications owing to its high resistance to corrosion. It is too hard to machine due to its high strength and high work hardening property. A surface property such as surface roughness (SR) is critical to the function-ability of machined components. SS is generally regarded as more difficult to machine material and poor SR is obta...

Transmitter/receiver (TR) pancake probes are widely used in eddy current testing (ECT) owing to their multi-axial structure and sensitivity different directions. However, the behavior of ECT signal affected by directivity TR probe has not been discussed, especially when considering magnetic properties materials. The present paper therefore investigates for angles between crack orientation cente...

in this study, an attempt was made to minimize the corrosion rate and maximize pitting potential of dissimilar metal welded joints of a387-gr91/aisi316 steels. process parameters of the pulsed current gas tungsten arc welding (pcgtaw) including of peak current (p), background current (b), pulse frequency (f), and on time percentage (o) were chosen as the influencing factors on corrosion behavio...

To evaluate a new gentamicin-vancomycin- impregnated (2:1) PMMA coating nail as a drug delivery device to treat bone and intramedullary infections, methicillin-resistant Staphylococcus aureus (MRSA) was used to induce femoral osteomyelitis in 20 New Zealand male rabbits. Four weeks after inoculum, the animals were submitted to debridement of infected femur canal, divided into four groups of fiv...