Nanocrystalline partially stabilised zirconia (PSZ) and yttria-fully stabilised zirconia (YSZ) powders were prepared by solution combustion process. Nanocrystalline nature of the powders was confirmed by XRD and TEM. Nanocomposite Ni/PSZ and Ni/YSZ films were electrodeposited from a suspension of nanoparticles in nickel sulfamate solution. The strengthening of the nanocomposite due to nanoparti...

Abstract An experimental program was carried out for assessing the performance of a hybrid solution composed by CFRP systems simultaneous flexural and shear strengthening RC beams. laminates, applied according to NSM technique, are used strengthening, while U-shape discrete strips wet lay-up sheet, EBR adopted strengthening. anchorage system at extremities these in an attempt avoiding their pre...

The global tendency to apply sustainable criteria in most of the productive fields and the limited durability and the pathologies that reinforced concrete elements suffer are aspects that explain the increasing necessity of strengthening this type of structures. The evolution of strengthening techniques has consisted in the development of new technologies that ease the application of the soluti...

Most of the existing ways for strengthening users’ confidence in uploading private data to a cloud platform stress too much on security. On the contrary, cloud computing must be open and distributed. Moreover, it should provide highly robust, secure, and quality services to users. Therefore, establishing a balance between the performance and the security of cloud platforms is necessary. In this...

In this paper we derive characterizations of egalitarian solutions on two subclasses of the class of balanced games. Firstly we show that the Dutta–Ray solution is the only solution that satisfies symmetry, independence of irrelevant core allocations, and continuity on the class of convex games. Secondly, together with the other two requirements, a strengthening of continuity to monotonicity in...

In the present work, the room and elevated temperature mechanical behavior of Al/TiC, high-strength Al-Si/TiC and the elevated temperature-resistant Al-Fe(-V-Si)/TiC composites has been evaluated. The microstructural characteristics of ingot metallurgy (IM) or rapid solidification (RS) Al-Si/TiC and Al-Fe(-V-Si)/TiC composites could be thought of as a combination of the related alloy matrix mic...