Durability of engineering workpieces surfaces is well-known to be strongly related to the microstructural evolutions induced by machining processes. One current challenge is to choose the right process parameters, such as the sliding speed, in order to optimize both the subsurface microstructure and the surface properties. In this paper, a special tribometer, able to simulate contact pressures ...

INTRODUCTION It has long been known that variations in the microstructure of bone have a profound effect on the mechanical properties of the tissue and that these properties vary significantly between and within the cortices of bones. However, the microstructural basis and the functional significance of such variation remains poorly understood. One reason for this is the difficulty in acquiring...

Since the bulk properties such as mechanical and functional properties of polycrystalline materials are strongly affected by microstructure, the control and optimization of the microstructure are essential to obtain desirable properties and to develop high performance polycrystalline materials. The application of external fields such as stress, electric and magnetic fields have been noticed as ...

background and objectives: in this study, the proteolysis and lipolysis of poosti cheese produced from raw sheep milk in mountainous eastern regions of iran were investigated during 90 days of ripening. materials and methods: sodium dodecyl sulfate polyacrylamide gel electrophoresis for proteolysis (sds-page) and gas chromatography (gc) for free fatty acids (ffas) were applied to investigate th...

the effect of rare earth (re) elements, including ce and la, on the sorption properties of zr-co getters was investigated in this work. the phase evolution, microstructural characteristics of getter powders were studied by means of x-ray diffraction method, scanning electron microscopy (sem) and energy dispersive x-ray spectroscopy (eds). the nanostructured zr3co intermetallic compound has been...

-In this paper, the findings from systematic experiments with the purpose to determine the degradation effect of single and multiple current pulses on the microstructure of the Metal Oxide (MO) varistor are described. Six distribution class varistors from one manufacturer were used in these experiments. The first part of the paper describes the electrical condition after application of single a...

Using diffusion tensor imaging (DTI), we explored microstructural brain maturation in a population of 65 preterm neonates who underwent magnetic resonance imaging between 35 and 43 weeks of corrected gestational age. A voxel-based analysis approach, statistical parametric mapping (SPM8), was used to evidence the nonlinear changes with the corrected gestational age in the regional distribution o...

Bicrystalline α-Fe2O3 nanoblades (NBs) synthesized by thermal oxidation of iron foils were reduced in vacuum, to study the effect of reduction treatment on microstructural changes and photocatalytic properties. After the vacuum reduction, most bicrystalline α-Fe2O3 NBs transform into single-layered NBs, which contain more defects such as oxygen vacancies, perfect dislocations and dense pores. B...

The viscoelastic response of commercial aluminum alloys 7075-T6 and 2024-T3 as a function of temperature is presented. Experimental data are obtained with a dynamic-mechanical analyzer (DMA) at different loading frequencies and compared with the available transmission electron microscopy (TEM) and differential scanning calorimetry (DSC) data. The effect of successive microstructural transformat...

In the present study, hydroxyapatite used as a matrix material was derived from the femur bones of Meleagris gallapova (MGHA) and then reinforced by yttriyum oxide (Y2O3, 5 and 10 wt%) and then pelleted samples at 350 MPa were sintered between 900 and 1300 °C. Finally, the effect of Y2O3 reinforcement on the microstructural and mechanical properties of MGHA was investigated. Scanning electron m...