Abstract The focus of this study is to see if Friction Stir Processing can improve the properties an aluminium alloy with Boron Nitride (BN) particles on surface. (FSP) a new surface alteration technique that uses friction cause plastic deformation, resulting in grain refining and improved mechanical properties. To process 2024 plates, straight cylinder tool was used under varying parameters co...

Pulsed infrared laser irradiation was used to positively identify small fatigue cracks on the surface of fatigue damaged Ti–6Al–4V specimens. The resulting transient thermoelastic deformation perceptibly changes the opening of partially closed surface cracks without affecting other scatterers, such as surface grooves, corrosion pits, coarse grains, etc. that might hide the fatigue crack from ul...

The establishment of reliable correlations between the extend of damage and a sensor response using automated non destructive testing (structural health monitoring) is the first aim of the present paper. The second and its main aim is the estimation of the efficiency of different approaches of the fatigue crack prediction when scalar parameters are used to represent the signal-response. Investi...

Water-soluble metal working fluids are used for processing of aluminum alloy materials. This short paper describes properties of new additives for water-soluble cutting fluids for aluminum alloy materials. Some alkyldiphosphonic acids were prepared with known method. Amine salts of these phosphonic acids showed anti-corrosion property for aluminum alloy materials. However, they have no hard wat...

in this article, failure and fracture mechanisms in an aluminum alloy (which has been used in diesel internal combustion engines), with and without ceramic thermal barrier coatings, have been investigated under isothermal and non-isothermal fatigue loadings. in this research, the base material is an aluminum-silicon-magnesium alloy and the thermal barrier coating includes a metallic bond coat l...

Water-soluble metal working fluids are used for processing of aluminum alloy materials. This short article describes properties of new additives in water-soluble metal working fluids for aluminum alloy materials. Many half esters or diesters were prepared from the reactions of higher alcohols with acid anhydrides. Interestingly, diesters of PTMG (tetrahydrofuran oligomer, MW = 650 and 1000) and...