A short review for design consideration of two common materials used in facade and curtain walling is presented. The characteristics of light-weight facade enveloping a building are different from the conventional steel or concrete structures. Glass cannot crack like concrete and it is much more brittle than steel. Aluminum involves many buckling modes similar to but more common than steel. Owi...

Abstract In general, three different types of processes can be utilized to cut thick stainless-clad steel: waterjet cutting, mechanical and thermal cutting (plasma, flame, EDM cutting). Because stainless steel contains a lot Cr, Ni, other elements with high ignition melting temperatures, flame is not recommended for direct steel. Three specimen thicknesses were prepared this study, experiments ...

Experiments were conducted to determine the effects of frequency and amplitude of vibration on friction. The experimental analysis also seeks to take into account a variety of factors influencing the coefficient of friction such as normal load and surface roughness. An in-house pin-on-disc apparatus was constructed with a spindle speed control and applied forced-feedback to perform the tests. T...

The corrosion behavior of both tin-plated carbon steel and aluminum (Al 1100) in NaCl solutions were studied using electrochemical impedance spectroscopy (EIS). The study objectives were to compare their corrosion behavior in concentrated brine solution, establish the equivalent electrical circuit diagrams of their corrosion phenomena, and consequently develop steady-state corrosion models for ...

An Al/Stainless Steel/Al lamellar composite was produced by roll bonding of the starting sheets at 400 °C. Afterward, the roll bonded sheet was cut in half and the accumulative roll bonding (ARB) process at room temperature was applied seven times. As a result, the central steel layer fractured and distributed in the Al matrix among different layers introduced by the repetition of roll bonding ...

This paper reports the simulation of phased array ultrasonic wave propagation using Finite Difference Time Domain (FDTD) method to image crack like defects in Aluminum Blocks and Stainless Steel elbow sections. Inclined crack like defects have been considered for the simulation. Experiments were also performed on an Aluminum block with inclined embedded cracks various sizes in order to validate...

Abstract: In this study, carried out by fka, the hood of the VW Golf V is taken as an example to analyze the potential of a hybrid construction of aluminum and steel. Structural stiffness, oil canning and dent resistance behavior are analyzed using Abaqus/Standard. With the objective of reducing the total hood weight, the performance of the hood is compared to reference values of the series pro...