The manufacture of medical and aerospace components made of titanium alloys and other difficult-to-cut materials requires the parallel development of high performance cutting tools coated with materials capable of enhanced tribological and resistance properties. In this matter, a thin nanocomposite film made out of AlCrN (aluminum-chromium-nitride) was studied in this research, showing experime...

We report on the enhancement of spin Hall conductivity in tungsten by alloying with copper, measured using spin-torque ferromagnetic resonance technique. The leads to an increase spin-dependent scattering events and results contributing extrinsic effects. damping property shows a slight higher concentration, due current losses from layer into tungsten-copper alloy. At concentration 60%, reaches...

OBJECTIVE To study exposure to cobalt and chromium in saw maintenance rooms and test respiratory health among saw filers at lumber mills. Hard-metal lung disease is associated with cobalt in the manufacture of tungsten carbide tools; recently it has also been reported among tool maintenance workers. Lumber mills often use saws tipped with tungsten carbide or with a newer alloy, stellite (contai...

Selective dissolution of a tungsten (85 wt.%)–rhenium (15 wt.%) alloy with rhenium in hydrochloric acid at the temperature 298 K and anodic polarization modes was carried out to develop porous catalytic substrate recycle rare metals. The parameters effective selective tungsten–rhenium alloy, including differences applied potentials electrolyte composition, were found. It established that sample...

An investigation of the performances in Fischer-Tropsch reaction of 1wt% M/WC(X) (M = Co, Ru; X = A, B), where A is a tungsten carbide protected by free carbon and B is a clean tungsten carbide, was carried out. Supported catalysts performances were compared to those of the parent tungsten carbides at 473 K and 20 bar. It was found that WC(A) produces mainly hydrocarbons but also 20-40% alcohol...

We have begun a collaborative investigation of the response of candidate first-wall inertial fusion energy (IFE) reactor chamber drywall materials to X-rays on the Z facility, and to ions on RHEPP-1, both located at Sandia National Laboratories. Dose levels are comparable to those anticipated in future direct-drive reactors. Due to the 5 /10 Hz repetition rate expected in such reactors, per-pul...

12.7-mm thick plates of 6061-T6511 aluminum alloy and high hardness steel (528 HV) were successfully joined by a friction stir bonding process using a tungsten Process parameter variation experiments, which geometry, plunge and traverse rates, tool offset, spindle tilt, and rotation speed, were conducted to develop a parameter set which yielded a defect free joint. Laboratory tensile tests exhi...

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The translating and rotating rod or disk of a conventional laser vaporization cluster source is replaced by a liquid metal target. The self-regenerating liquid surface prevents cavities from being bored into the sample by laser ablation. The laser beam strikes a near pristine surface with each pulse, resulting in signals with much better short and long term stabilities. While this approach cann...