The twin-roll strip casting process is a typical steel-strip production method which combines continuous casting and hot rolling process. The production line from molten liquid steel to the final steel-strip is shortened and the production cost is reduced significantly compared to the conventional continuous casting. The twin-roll strip casting process can produce 1-5 mm thin steel strip direct...

Gas Metal Arc Welding (GMAW) process was analyzed by combining a finite element thermomechanical model for temperature and stress with solidification model. Model prediction was compared with experimental data in order to validate the model. The effects of welding process parameters on these welding fields were analyzed and reported. The effort to correlate the residual stress and solidificatio...

Lotus-type porous nickel with cylindrical pores was fabricated by unidirectional solidification in a mixture gas of hydrogen and argon. The pore size is significantly affected by the addition of NiO powder. The pore size decreases and the number density of the pores increases by the addition of NiO. It is concluded that NiO powder can serve as nucleation sites for the pore formation in the proc...

Casting is considered as a major manufacturing process. Thermal analysis of a solidifying medium is of great importance for appropriate design of casting processes. The conventional governing equation of a solidifying medium is based on the Fourier heat conduction law, which does not account for the phase-lag between the heat flux and the temperature gradient. In this paper, the concept of phas...

The dynamics of melting-rapid solidification of amorphous Ge films on transparent substrates upon irradiation with nanosecond laser pulses has been analyzed by means of real time reflectivity measurements performed both at the air-film and film-substrate interfaces. The effect of the heat flow conditions on the rapid solidification process has been studied by comparing the behavior of films wit...

Defect formation in aerospace components is studied, particularly in regions of directionally solidified casting with stepwise increase in cross-section, which is a typical geometric configuration for such components as turbine blades. Given the fact that the geometry of a casting is directly related to probability of defect formation, special attention was paid to grain defects in regions of c...