zinc coating is formed by the heterogeneous assembly of the γ, γ1, δ, ζ and η phases whose mechanicalproperties greatly differ from each other. thermal strains resulting from large differences betweenthermal expansion coefficients are partially relaxed by the formation of a crack network. in order tomodel this phenomenon, initial hardness, thermal expansion coefficient αi and toughness (kic) of...

A central building block of the environmental justice movement is empirical evidence about the unequal distribution of environmental benefits and burdens. Such evidence has played a key role in galvanizing public attention to the issue of environmental justice and helped inform what the appropriate legal responses should be. Conversely, those who challenge the existence of environmental discrim...