An Fe6AlCoCrNi medium-entropy (MEA) coating was coated on a steel substrate by laser cladding. The micro-structure, crystal structure, phases, and wear properties of the were investigated. mainly composed dendritic face-center cubic (FCC) phase, which showed preferred orientation <2 0 0>, normal to surface, body-center (BCC) phase. MEA exhibited satisfactory rigidity with superior resista...

We investigate the simultaneous existence of two centers (bi-center) for two families of planar Z2-equivariant differential systems. First we present necessary and sufficient conditions for the existence of an isochronous bi-center for a planar Z2-equivariant cubic system having two centers at the points (−1, 0) and (1, 0), completing the study done by Liu and Li (2011). Next, we give condition...

Controlled actuation of electroactive polymers with embedded high dielectric nanoparticles is theoretically analyzed. If the inclusions are placed randomly in the elastomer body, the composite always contracts along the direction of the applied field. For a simple cubic distribution of inclusions, contraction occurs if the applied field is directed along the [001] direction of the lattice. For ...

Controlled actuation of electroactive polymers with embedded high dielectric nanoparticles is theoretically analyzed. If the inclusions are placed randomly in the elastomer body, the composite always contracts along the direction of the applied field. For a simple cubic distribution of inclusions, contraction occurs if the applied field is directed along the [001] direction of the lattice. For ...

The phase diagram of model anisotropic particles with four attractive patches in a tetrahedral arrangement has been computed at two different values of the range of the potential, with the aim of investigating the conditions under which a diamond crystal can be formed. We find that the diamond phase is never stable for our longer-ranged potential. At low temperatures and pressures, the fluid fr...

In this article, we study the planar cubic polynomial differential system ẋ = −yR(x, y) ẏ = xR(x, y) where R(x, y) = 0 is a conic and R(0, 0) 6= 0. We find a bound for the number of limit cycles which bifurcate from the period annulus of the center, under piecewise smooth cubic polynomial perturbations. Our results show that the piecewise smooth cubic system can have at least 1 more limit cycle...

This is the first Monte Carlo study of the hard-sphere lattice gas with nearest neighbour exclusion on the body-centred cubic lattice. We estimate the critical activity to be 0.7223 ± 0.0003. This result confirms that there is a re-entrant phase transition of an antiferromagnetic Ising model in an external field and a Blume-Emery-Griffiths model on the body-centred cubic lattice.