Urban centres in the world are undergoing facets of changes, these changes are evident in developing countries and more divergent because urban transformation in developing countries is often accompanied challenges which include traffic congestion, overcrowding, pollution and continuous land use succession. This phenomenon is not different with the central area of Minna, Nigeria. Since 2008 the...

in the present research, in contrast to the available papers, not only the superelasticity but also the shape memory effects are taken into account in determination of the impact responses. at the same time, in addition to modifying brinson’s model for the shape memory alloys (smas), to include new parameters and loading events, and hertz contact law, distributions of the sma phases are conside...

copper sulphide (cu 2 s) thin films at different thicknesses and annealing temperatures were deposited onto glass substrate by vacuum evaporation method. xrd study reveals the phase transformation of cu     2 s film at higher thickness. optical and resistivity study show the phase transformation of the film from cu     2 s to cus when they are annealed at higher temperature. sem st...

Abstract: Austenitic stainless steels exhibit a low hardness and weak tribological properties. The wear behaviour of austenitic stainless steel AISI 316 was evaluated through the pin on disc tribological method. For investigating the effect of wear on the changes in microstructure and resistance to wear, optical microscopy and scanning electron microscope were used. The hardness of the worn...

in this research, a sol gel autocaombustion route has been proposedto synthesize alumina-zirconia composite powders, usingammonium bicarbonate as a new fuel. then the effect of calcinationtemperature on phase transformation and crystallite sizes wasinvestigated. to characterize the products xrd, tem and betanalyses were used. xrd patterns of as-synthesized powder andcalcined powders at 1100 ◦c ...

using the riemann-liouville fractional differintegral operator, the lie theory is reformulated. the fractional poisson bracket over the fractional phase space as 3n state vector is defined to be the fractional lie derivative. its properties are outlined and proved. a theorem for the canonicity of the transformation using the exponential operator is proved. the conservation of its generator is p...

introduction: the aim of this study was to compare several metallurgic properties of neoniti instrument with four other commonly used endodontic rotary files. methods and materials: neoniti a1 (25/0.08), race (25/0.06), mtwo (25/0.06), twisted file (25/0.06) and protaper next x2 (25/0.06) were examined by differential scanning calorimetry (dsc) before and after heat treatment at 500 ° c. x-ray ...