Although titanium is considered to be a ubiquitous element as it has the 10th-highest Clarke number of all the elements, it is actually classified as a rare metal because the current refinement process for the metal is more environmentally damaging than the processes used to refine iron and aluminum. Furthermore, the principal alloying elements of titanium alloys are very expensive, owing to th...

Relatively little is known about the microstructure of cobalt-base alloys in dentistry. Manufacturers of dental cobalt-base alloys have published very little on this subject. No research has been conducted on the microstructure of the cobalt-base alloys used in dentistry. The need for research in this field is recognized, however, by both the manufacturers of the alloys and researchers in the d...

OBJECTIVES The bond strength of resin cements to metal alloys depends on the type of the metal, conditioning methods and the adhesive resins used. The purpose of this study was to evaluate the bond strength of resin cements to base and noble metal alloys after sand blasting or application of silano-pen. MATERIALS AND METHOD Cylinders of light cured Z 250 composite were cemented to "Degubond 4...

The structures and magnetic properties of Pr–Fe–Al alloys produced by the metallic mold casting method were investigated. The Pr–Fe–Al alloy consisted of the amorphous phase together with the non-ferromagnetic Pr phase. Magnetic measurements confirmed that the origin of coercivity in the alloys was the amorphous phase. It was found that the Curie temperature and coercivity of the alloys were st...

A systematic investigation of the magnetization and mechanical properties of amorphous NixFeso-,BlSSiz is reported. The magnetization showed strong depression for x 2 50. The alloys with x 2 65 are paramagnetic at room temperature but the Young's modulus (as well as microhardness) decreased almost linearly with x at 77 and 300 K. It was concluded that bonding was primarily due to d-electrons re...

Both Ti-6Al-4V and 316L stainless steels are widely used as engineering alloys. Fusion welding of these two alloys is not easily possible due to their incomplete solubility in each other. Brazing is one of the best choices for joining dissimilar alloys. In this study, wettability experiments were done at 940 and 970 ºC for 5, 15 and 30 min. Also, joining of these two alloys was carried out at 9...

A general model for the dissolution of stoichiometric particles in multi-component alloys is proposed and analysed. We introduce the concept of mass-conserving solutions and give a self-similar solution for the resulting Stefan-problem. Furthermore, we show that particle dissolution in multi-component alloys can under certain circumstances be approximated by a model for particle dissolution in ...

Solid solution between nonmagnetic narrow gap semiconductor FeSi and diamagnetic semi-metal CoSi gives rise to interesting metallic alloys with longrange helical magnetic ordering, for a wide range of intermediate concentration. We report various interesting magnetic properties of these alloys, including low temperature re-entrant spin-glass like behaviour and a novel inverted magnetic hysteres...

The Laser Engineered Net Shaping (LENS) technique was combined with direct synthesis to fabricate L21-ordered Fe-Al-Ti based intermetallic alloys. It was found that ternary Fe-Al-Ti alloys can be synthesized using the LENS technique from a feedstock composed of a pre-alloyed Fe-Al powder and elemental Ti powder. The obtained average compositions of the ternary alloys after the laser deposition ...

POWDER METALLURGY (P/M) technology provides a useful means of fabricating net-shape components that enables machining to be minimized, thereby reducing costs. Aluminum P/M alloys can therefore compete with conventional aluminum casting alloys, as well as with other materials, for costcritical applications. In addition, P/M technology can be used to refine microstructures compared with those mad...