Segregation and chemical inhomogeneity are well-known problems in powder metallurgy and are also an issue for new applications of powder mixtures, for example as starting materials for severe plastic deformation. In this study, Cu-coated Fe powder was prepared via immersion deposition, inductively hot-pressed and subsequently deformed using high-pressure torsion. The homogeneity of the pressed ...

Asphalt modification/reinforcement has received considerable attention as viable solutions to enhance flexible pavement performance. This is mainly prompted by the unsatisfactory performance of traditional road materials exposed to dramatic increases and changes in traffic patterns. This paper presents the evaluation of fatigue behaviour of nano reinforced Stone Mastic Asphalt mixtures. Fatigue...

Self-sorting processes in the assembly of gel-phase materials from mixtures of different molecular-scale building blocks can lead to the spontaneous orthogonal assembly of two different nanoscale gel-phase networks at the same time.

Molecular Fragment Dynamics (MFD) is a new method for mesoscopic molecular modelling computer simulations derived from Dissipative Particle Dynamics (DPD) [1]. It can be used to simulate dynamical processes at a microsecond timescale and up to micrometer scales and can handle up to 1.500.000 particles. This unique technique so far has been successfully applied to surfactants, adjuvants, polymer...