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Processing techniques used in manufacturing components from metals and other materials
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"How do we understand special relativity?"
The Quantum FFF Model differences: What are the main differences of Q-FFFTheory with the standard model? 1, A Fermion repelling- and producing electric dark matter black hole. 2, An electric dark matter black hole splitting Big Bang with a 12x distant symmetric instant entangled raspberry multiverse result, each with copy Lyman Alpha forests. 3, Fermions are real propeller shaped rigid convertible strings with dual spin and also instant multiverse entanglement ( Charge Parity symmetric) . 4, The vacuum is a dense tetrahedral shaped lattice with dual oscillating massless Higgs particles ( dark energy). 5, All particles have consciousness by their instant entanglement relation between 12 copy universes, however, humans have about 500 m.sec retardation to veto an act. ( Benjamin Libet) It was Abdus Salam who proposed that quarks and leptons should have a sub-quantum level structure, and that they are compound hardrock particles with a specific non-zero sized form. Jean Paul Vigier postulated that quarks and leptons are "pushed around" by an energetic sea of vacuum particles. 6 David Bohm suggested in contrast with The "Copenhagen interpretation", that reality is not created by the eye of the human observer, and second: elementary particles should be "guided by a pilot wave". John Bell argued that the motion of mass related to the surrounding vacuum reference frame, should originate real "Lorentz-transformations", and also real relativistic measurable contraction. Richard Feynman postulated the idea of an all pervading energetic quantum vacuum. He rejected it, because it should originate resistance for every mass in motion, relative to the reference frame of the quantum vacuum. However, I postulate the strange and counter intuitive possibility, that this resistance for mass in motion, can be compensated, if we combine the ideas of Vigier, Bell, Bohm and Salam, and a new dual universal Bohmian "pilot wave", which is interpreted as the EPR correlation (or Big Bang entanglement) between individual elementary anti-mirror particles, living in dual universes.
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Wolfgang Konle
That is incorrect, Wolfgang. You are not paying attention.
When there is an omelet, then we know that there was an egg. That is NOT a miracle. Is the egg still around? No, that is the entire point of what the omelet shows us.
The results tell us something about the origin. It is NOT a miracle that there was an origin. It is too bad that we cannot know more about the origin other than it producing the results, but the results do present us a clear storyline how the results came about.
I'd like you to go back to the basics of science and rethink the conclusion you came to.
The following question is truly the first step:
Is the material universe somehow based on a unifying principle, or is the material universe somehow based on the lack of a unifying principle?
Both positions are good scientific positions to start out from. We have the omelet, and we want to understand how the omelet came about. We are not investigating where the egg came from or what the egg tells us. Only the omelet is doing the talking.
Know that I do not mind if you do not agree with the proposal. I have no problem there. Yet your declaring it is a miracle is not based in good science. I must urge you to find your scientific footing.
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Fred-Rick Schermer "Here the quarks aligned themselves immediately into neutrons and protons."
According to everything we currently know, this would be a miracle, which drastically violates charge neutrality.
"That is incorrect, Wolfgang. You are not paying attention. When there is an omelet, then we know that there was an egg. That is NOT a miracle. Is the egg still around? No, that is the entire point of what the omelet shows us."
No, you are not paying attention. A process which just generates neutrons and protons violates charge parity. According to the number of generated protons an equal amount of electrons also must be generated.
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Santa Claus.
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Wolfgang Konle
We do have the exact same amount of positively charged protons and negatively charged electrons.
There is no miracle. Yet the protons are indeed part of the energy that got changed during the Big Bang process, from being immaterial energy at first to becoming damaged energy: the quarks. The quarks are self-based energy, incapable of returning to their original format.
Meanwhile, the electrons are pulled from the very large remainder of (unchanged) energy; the large remainder was not damaged. The electrons are not self-based in outcome; they are proton-focused, neutralizing the positive charge of the protons. In effect, the protons manifest the electrons from the energized field. The electrons do not annihilate the charge because they cannot undo the damage of the quarks. They are there only to neutralize the charge and yet they cannot undo the charge at the subatomic level.
There are therefore two realities for matter:
Original (undamaged) energy, some say this could be as much as 96% of all energy there is in the universe.
Damaged energy, the quarks.
Matter is said by some to be about 4% of all energy there is. This includes then the electrons since they got pulled into the material realm, yet do not contribute anything close to what the quarks contribute in material energy.
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There is no miracle here, Wolfgang. It is all about the mechanics of what went wrong during the materialization process.
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Fred-Rick Schermer "Yet the protons are part of the energy that got changed during the Big Bang process, from being immaterial energy at first to becoming damaged energy: the quarks. The quarks are self-based energy, incapable of returning to their original format.
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There are therefore two realities for matter:
Original (undamaged) energy, some say this could be as much as 96% of all energy there is in the universe. Damaged energy, the quarks."
You are telling absurd stories without any foundation. This is unacceptable.
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Wolfgang Konle
I am actually staying fully within the scientific realm, Wolfgang.
Let's start at the beginning once more.
A/ The material universe is either based on a single foundation, or
B/ The material universe is based on the lack of a single foundation.
That is a real good scientific question, and the data that we have can therefore be organized in two different manners, either via A or via B.
The Lambda-CDM model follows A.
The Big Whisper model, named for Penzias and Wilson who discovered the whisper of the materialization process, follows B.
The Lambda-CDM model is mechanically incomplete, question marks abound.
The Big Whisper model is mechanically complete. The question how matter could have come about is answered fully. It does require to accept that Energy is already a given.
Both A and B represent scientific approaches, both fully within the scientific realm.
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With the advances in sr we also have bad
consequemces in nuclear weapons.
Unfortunately its real stuff.
But sr is in the category of classical
physics , not related to the quantum.
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I have tried this: mixed the powder with acetone before putting it into the pressing die of diameter = 13 mm. Added the damp powder into the die and pressed at 8 T and then waited for 30 minutes. I released the press in one step and took out the sample. The pellet is cracking. It has a circular crack like it is about to divide the pellet into two layers of powder but the crack is not continuous right round the pellet (it is only affecting half part of the pellet). The pellet is therefore forming sort of two layers, one big layer with almost half of it not affected and the other piece as a flake. 
Is there anything I can do to get a single solid pellet?
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As Alexander Laptev mentioned 600 MPa may be high pressure for the per unit cm^2.
you should use ton/cm2 for this. I think 2.5 ton.cm^-2 is enough. You please calculate force according sample size.
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Where is the Jade due to the throwing out of a brick and a paving stone?
A brand new conception of preferable probability and its evaluation were created, the book was entitled "Probability - based multi - objective optimization for material selection", and published by Springer, which opens a new way for multi-objective orthogonal experimental design, uniform experimental design, respose surface design, and robust design, discretization treatment and sequential optimization, etc.
It aims to provide a rational approch without personal or other subjective coefficients, which is available at https://link.springer.com/book/9789811933509,
DOI: 10.1007/978-981-19-3351-6.
Best regards.
Yours
M. Zheng
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In order to examine the micro-structure in cross-section of the Inconel alloy on Cast iron, I'm not able to find a suitable etchant which could give good image. There are various etchants for both the material, and not finding a common etchant. 
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you can use both kalling reagent or freshly prepared 50 ml HCL and 2ml H2O2.
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The suspension wire of our Shimadzu TGA-50 was disconnected. It was undamaged, so we anchored it back to the balance. However, during our next thermal analysis experiment, we experienced slight erratic increases and decreases in the temperature above 300 degrees Celsius. Any suggestions on how to remedy this issue? 
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please I need the software for the TGA-50 instrument, Can you help me?
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Ceramic cookware are all the latest craze in regards to safe cookware. However, they tend to lose their non stick properties within a year or so. From what I can understand, the nonstick property is derived from a surface layer glaze on the ceramic that smooths and fills micropores in the base layer metal or ceramic, and excessive heating and heating cycles cause the glaze to change. Is the general root cause of failure the failure of the glaze to adhere and remain rigid, failure of a primer, or just surface scratches?
Ceramic is also a poor conductor of heat, so has there been research on dispersing metal particles within the glaze or ceramic?  
Also, has anyone heard of research on nano-textured non stick coatings? 
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Hi
Mechanical is in coating the container with a substance or polishing the surface so that there is no porosity
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How can I run an ONIOM calculation with solvation? I have tried scrf=(smd,solvent=warter, oniompcm=x) and scrf=(check, oniompcm=x) and neither worked
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Hello, I found that the solvation method you used was SMD model combined with ONIOMPCM, namely SCRF =(SMD,solvent=water, ONIOMPCM = X). I would like to ask if this combination is correct? Where did you get this key word?
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Al A356
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@M.Amin Ezazi,
but it have to consider this temp. in kelvin not in celsius .
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Slurries generally consists of some heavier particles which should remain suspended in solution for best coating results. Kindly suggest best way to maintain viscosity of alumina slurries. Thank you:)
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I have 70 percent cryo-rolled 2219 samples but i am not able to get good scan from EBSD,what should I do?
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use NPAR
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1. Material Processes: Welding Research.
2. Materials: Composites, Plastics, Metals, exotics, etc.
3. Following the welding process, certain alloys (e.g., aluminum) lose their mechanical properties, and therefore:
a. How to weld in these situations?
b. How can the strength be returned to the basic materials (hardening efforts, cold processing, etc.)?
4. Is it possible to give an electrical interpretation to the vibration of the molecules, which is created as a result of the thermal energy and causes the decomposition of the intermolecular forces?
P. S. Assuming that the electrical charge between the ions and the molecules, and between themselves (dipoles, ion bonds, H- bonding, van der Waals forces: Keesom, Debye and London) cause to electrical bond (force).
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Dear Jacob,
quite a lot of issues in your question...
Welding is the combination of many physical-chemical effects as welding power, thermal transfer, gaseous atmosphere, thermal properties of both base material and welding consumables.
Only the deep knowledge of the materials you need to weld and the performances you want to obtain will result in the most suitable welding strategy (if any)... If you are interested on Aluminum alloys - the main problem in arc welding is surface oxidation that pollute the weld zone and prevent from a stable straight electric arc. MIG is discouraged. TIG is more performing. Gas protection is essential. Pulsed arc are recommended to reduce thermal input and reduce the oxide formation. Definition of the right WPS is fundamental and could depend also on size and shape of your welding zone.
Hope this answer could help,
Best regards,
Simone
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which heat treatment is suitable for aluminium 7075 metal matrix composites.and also may i know the steps/ procedure of the heat treatment ?
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Recently I tested a novel superhydrophobic coating by means of potential curves. What is odd is that I found a significative change in Ecorr (from 800 to 500 mv in comparison with the bare metal...) but instead of a lowering of Icorr I found an increase in ICorr (10-8 bare metal to 10-7 protected). The coating is conductive (it's C based). I have no idea how to interpret the results. Any ideas?
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@Sarah in my case it was related to the nature of the coating which was conductive. I can share with you the article we published if needed
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Hello scientific community, please I would like some information on the characterization of adsorbent materials by the Boehm method. I would be grateful if you could correct the procedure for me.
To my knowledge, the Boehm method consists of mixing (for 24 hours) a mass of adsorbent of the order of 0.15 g in a closed bottle with 50 ml of a 0.01 mol / l aqueous solution of reagent. The reagent could be either NaOH to neutralize the phenolic groups, or Na2CO3 to neutralize the lactones, or NaHCO3 to neutralize the carboxyl groups, or HCl to determine the content of basic groups. Then, the suspensions are filtered through membrane filters at 0.45 μm and the filtrates are titrated (adsorbent-NaOH, adsorbent-Na2CO3, adsorbent-NaHCO3) with HCl (0.01 M) and the filtrate (adsorbent-HCl) is titrated with NaOH (0.01 M).
The question is how to quantify acidic and basic groups? How to quantify carboxylic groups, lactonic groups, phenolic groups, carbonyl groups, total oxygenated groups, total basic groups? What units are the results expressed by?
Thank you infinitely for all your efforts. I confide in your availability and friendliness. In the end, please accept my heartfelt Thanks and sincere salutations.
Yours sincerely
Mohammed Benjelloun
PhD Student Researcher
Laboratory of Materials, Processes, Catalysis, and Environment, University Sidi Mohamed Ben Abdellah, Higher School of Technology, Post office Box 2427 Fez, Morocco
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Hi, Mohammed,
This Master thesis will be able to help you because it details the application of the Boehm method which is based on the pka of the reagents.
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In fiber metal laminates (FML), adhesion between the fiber and the metal is an important problem.
How this problem can be reduced?
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The best practical way may be to maintain the proper amount of pressure during the manufacturing process. In addition, you can use a proper epoxy adhesive at metal/composite interfacial bonding.
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Dear Colleagues,
I want to design a furnace of 1600⁰C for material processing in my laboratory.
Please suggest me which is the best insulating material for this ?
Thanks and Regards
N Das
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Dear Ori Yeheskel,
Actually my work is mostly related to formation of different composite materials for study of electric and magnetic properties.
One of these is YBCO , a high Tc Superconducting Material which is to be formed by Y2O3, BaCO3 and CuO.
This needs comparatively low temperature ( 950⁰C).
Similarly, Strontium Lanthanum manganate and some other materials with different ferroelectric, para electric properties and phase transitions.
For different materials the temperature is different .
I request you to give some suggestions .
Thanks
N Das
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It should be either decrease or increase for nth time during heat supply. Is there any possibility of irregular temperature sequences as shown in figure. In that picture the highest temperature lies around 168 °C, but that values keep decreasing and increasing. What causes it ?
The method of heat supply is two- probe electrode method. Probe material is copper. The values were recorded using a thermal camera. Time and current value is constant.
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I am heating my sample (NaNiCoMnO2) at 900 deg. C in presence of air for 12 hours to form metal oxide. After heating to 900 deg. C the quartz tube becomes whitish (See the attached picture) . Tried cleaning with HCL acid doesn't go off completely. After heating 4/5 more samples the Quartz tube breaks. I broke few of them. Kindly let me know if this is common practice with Quart tube while preparing metal oxide ?  Please suggest me a good brand of tube or any suggestions regarding my issue. 
- I think the material is forming some layer. Kindly check the attached pic. 
Thank you !!
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It is due to a phase transformation in the quartz from alpha-silica to tridymite.
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Is there anyone who knows anything about the difficulties of this Process? And why these difficulties occur?
For example:
why sponge iron stick to SiC Saggar sometime?
why the product's carbon level is low?
why products get colored?
Do the colors blue and purple indicate the presence of a specific compound?
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Hi, you can read this article, please {Production of Sponge Iron through Tunnel Kiln Process}, by Swaren Bedarkar
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In powder metallurgy stearates are added while mixing of powders in order to facilitate compaction. Further these stearates are removed during dewaxing.
If zinc stearate is added as a lubricant during mixing of iron powder or other metallic based composites, does zinc stearate evaporates during sintering or remains there in the compacts.
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There would not be any trace of lubricant, even if the metal stearates is used such as ZnSt as a lubricant, after sintering. Lubricants are supposed to be removed from the green part during the dewaxing process. However, if temperature and time during dewaxing is not enough to completely remove the lubricant from the green part before entering the sintering (hot-zone) section, the surface of the part would be associated with staining at the end of sintering. Therefore, you should not expect any trace of metal stearates (in your case ZnSt) after sintering. However, not a clean surface is expected particularly for the large parts if ZnSt was used as a lubricant.
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I found D. Mukherji et al. paper  on nanocrystalline Ni3Al-type superalloys. I am interested in making measurements of strength and hardness of these alloys at high pressures. For this purpose I need these alloys of various sizes.
Please help me to have these for my measurements.
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Dear Budhi,
Small quantity of materials you can collect it from the researchers of California Institute of Technology, engineering and applied science division, and Illinois Institute of Technology. Researchers (J.R. Greer) from CIT and B.Gan (From Illinois Institute of Technology) have performed using materials for their research. They have presented their research in 12th international symposium in super alloys. You can ask the concerned researchers if available for your use they can offer you.
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How Machine Learning can be helpful to developing production of new materials?
In my opinion it is so useful in materials engineering.
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Dear Hossein Homayoun ,
Machine learning provides a new means of screening novel materials with good performance, developingquantitative structure-activity relationships (QSARs) and other models, predicting the properties ofmaterials, discovering new materials and performing other materials-relateds studies.
Regards,
Shafagat
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During synthesis I found that when APS is added to a solution of Ani + HCl, even small amount of APS is sufficient to form the green color to solution. Of course the rate at which PANI is formed is different and increases with an increase in APS. Fresh HCl and Dist. Aniline were used. To what extent does the chemistry change and what are the possibilities that the other forms of PANI are forming?
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the surface of the freshly prepared PAni (and anyway PAni in general, also if not fresh) is highly acidic; the reaction has nothing to do with the reactants formerly used for running the polymerisation;
the acetone does not react with PAni, but the aldol reaction product becomes adsorbed on the PAni particle surface and deteriorates the PAni properties.
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Doing Hot isostatic pressing (HIP) after SLM is often considered as a best way to reduce the porosity and anisotropy. But in the most of the research papers, tests has been carried out on samples of cubic/ cuboid shape. Are there any papers available on studies HIP carried out on some complex AM components (one having internal channels , with thin sections etc.) ? Will this process have any significant effect in the dimension and shape?
Any leads will be helpful.
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Yes, it may degrade the intricacies of the object
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There are some analytical programs and numerical modeling software, including COMSOL, 3DSIM, ABAQUS, MARC, ANSYS (using stress analyses), and many other 3D or finite element based methods, which have already been used to find a relation between the parameters of AM processes (e.g. hatch distance, scan speed, and device power) and the properties of final products. It seems that previous researchers could already partially simulate some characteristics of manufactured products by the help of design of experiments/DOE methods (e.g. TAGUCHI) as well as microstructural studies (considering droplet geometry, phases characteristics, grain size, defects, etc.), thermal evaluations (CTE, heat capacity, conductivity, molten pool temperature distribution, etc.), or stress analyses. However, there is still no comprehensive method to precisely evaluate the influence of AM parameters and also the magnitude of their impact on the mechanical properties of the products.
Please let me know what method you think is the most complete, practical, and reliable approach which can best simulate the final properties of the additively-manufactured products using the process parameters.
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The mechanic properties involve many aspects of materials so that it is hard to establish single modeling for comprehensive evaluation. It is better to specify which property is the object of your research. Concerning modeling efforts, stress and strain have been successfully assessed, but for the resultant mechanical properties, maybe we can not obtain a scale value without the discussion of microstructure. Thus, modeling the microstructure at first and then applying an analytical model that states the relationship between microstructure and property would be an indirect route affording your purpose. So phase-field or cellular automaton may be the core section in your modeling section. For connecting the AM parameters and formation conditions of microstructures, multi-physics modeling tool (e.g., COMSOL) would be applied at the first stage.
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Let's say I have a material with a stable phase A that transitions to another stable phase B at temperature T. If the material also has a metastable phase A', I know that if I cool B fast enough I would get:
B -> A'
and if I cool very slowly I'd get
B-> A.
If I were to look at the interface between B and the new phase and somehow extract all possible information (energy/mass transfer, etc), what signal would indicate to me that I would expect A' (metastable) to form over A?
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When you refer to thermal gradients you propably refer to solidification processes. For these the temperature gradients are very important as the interface velocity is usually determined crucialy by the transport of the latent heat. Here, of course, special literature exist, but beyond what is taught in general lectures I cannot help much. Your reference to "metallurgy books" seems that there you looked at the soldification sections.
If you are more interested in solid-solid transformations, usually the thermal gradient is less important, simply becausee the latent heat associated with the transformations is much lower than for solidification (the invariant parameter is actually the transformation entropy, connected with the transformation enthalpy via the equilibrium transformation temperature). In that case there is a huge amount of concepts to describe phase transformation kinetics. Porter Easterling is a good starter (having also solidification sections). Models are of course on very different levels. If you want to find much more, you may refer to Christian.
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Example :I am using GeSeTe and GeSbTe material, the ratio is
(19:1; ball:material) I am unable to to reduce the size
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material to ball ratio
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In Terms of Process, Parameters and Application.
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They have same performance level in industry. Both of them used as a blasting process. Differences in term of materials one jet is good for machining and one use powder for blasting.
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Im currently doing flow drilling simulation and according to what I have read, there is no loss in material in this process since it push the material down with high temperature generated from the friction between the tool and the workpiece. AFAIK it is not possible because the element deletion option need to be enabled to make the tool be able to drill through the workpiece, otherwise the tool will be stuck trying to drill through the material and the program return with the error later. Im not sure which approch is the correct way to simulate the process.
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Thank you for the part. I have used a similar one. For the file, only three types of extension available, and the Abaqus I use is the last version I think.
Here is another one I have tried with.
Thank you again for your kind reply
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Injection molding offers high quality and production rate of many geometrically complex shapes. One of the drawbacks of this method is the relatively higher cost of the material compared to the similar material produced through compression molding. There are also limitations regarding the choice of high-end injection molded material.
BMC (Bulk Moulding Compound) materials may be used in injection and/or compression molding methods. However, there are many BMC materials from well-known suppliers which are not tested for injection molding purposes. What are the main characteristics that give a material advantages in injection molding method?
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First of all, you need to know at which state your material exists at the operating temperature, does it overcome any phase transition (which is usually accompanied with changes in physical properties). If you know all that, you need do chose an appropriate material with lowest chemical reactivity, lowest viscosity at the operating temperature and lowest tendency to overcome a phase transition prior to in-mold hardening.
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Hello, in WC-Ni hardafing coating using the flame thermal spray process. Without using XRD analysis, which method can be used to identifie the decraburization of the WC particles? and the product of this phenoman is always the formation of W2C eutecic phase?
Also, how can I stop, or inhibate this decaburization of the WC particles,
Thank you.
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Dear Haibin Wang,
In your work, you explore the coatings obtained by the HVOF method from WC-Co powders, sintered at different temperatures. The result was the fact that coatings sprayed from powders sintered at higher temperatures result in better quality. This is a correct observation, but it is completely incorrect to tie this observation to the degree of decarburization of tungsten carbide!
The WC-Co powders, sintered at low temperatures, have very porous agglomerates (you made excellent photos that prove this) and it is this porosity of agglomerates that causes a deterioration in the quality of HVOF coatings.
The high porosity of the agglomerates leads to the fact that the coating is looser, with weak boundaries of individual particles and a large proportion of oxides. It is the weak boundary of the particles that leads to a lower wear resistance of such coatings as compared to coatings sprayed from dense agglomerates. A side effect of spraying porous agglomerates is decarburization due to the oxidation of small carbide particles with flame oxygen (it is oxidation, not thermal decomposition, as many believe!). Indeed, it formally turns out that a poor coating has a lower content of higher tungsten carbide (WC) than a good one, but to say that the quality of the coating depends on the degree of carburization - this is a substitution of concepts.
The reason for the poor quality of HVOF-coatings from powders sintered at low temperatures is porous agglomerates, and decarburization is not the cause, but one of the consequences.
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I wants to relate MRR and erosion rate
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MRR = mass of material removed / mass of particles used = 0.1 ... 10 [mg/g].
Erosion rate is typically referred as the same today, but in some previous works (20th century) it was refereed as mass removed per unit of time [g/min] or thickness of material removed per unit area [mm/mm2] or volume of material removed per unit area [mm3/mm2]. In other words, it was not related to the mass of used abrasives (because in sandstorm and other natural solid particles erosion conditions this parameter is unknown).
Another interesting parameter is Erosion Energy Efficiency, which is the mass of material removed per particles kinetic energy [g/J], introduced by P.J. Slikkerveer in "Erosion and Damage by Sharp Particle' back in 1998.
Hope it helps. Regards.
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How do we make Tungsten carbide cutting tool inserts? By powder injection molding or by mechanical pressing and sintering?
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Any information, experience you can provide would be much appreciated. Thanks
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One way to increase Zn content is to recirculate the dust in EAF through injection or briquetting
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We are trying to manufacture fasteners made of A286 steel. The fasteners were forged and solid solution treated at 900oC for 2.5hours followed by 680, 720, or 740oC aging for 16hours, which is well-known heat-treatment process for gamma' precipitation of A286. After then, hardness in the range of 30-32HRC was obtained.
This result is pretty much unsatisfactory to us because we need to make A286 fasteners with 34HRC or above. I heard that maximum hardness of A286 would be around 35-36HRC but our heat-treatment couldn't lead to the value.
Can anybody suggest any heat-treatment process to improve hardness of A286 steel? Unfortunately, we cannot conduct cold rolling more after solid solution treatment due to client's request. For your information, grain size of our materials is around 12-13 micro meter.
Any assistance would be greatly appreciated.
 
Thank you,
JH Kim
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Controling the cooling rate
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Can anyone help me to make the user subroutine UMATHT used in ABAQUS simulation for lithiation process in lithium ion battery (LIB)? I am working on anode part of LIB and need to run an FEM simulation. However, I am not aware of the programming part of this subroutine. I would really appreciate comments from people who know about it.
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Nadeem, can you share how to use UMATHT subroutine ?
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How we can increase the respose and recovery time of a Humidity Sensors based on ZnO?
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I agree with the above answers but the response and recovery time of a Humidity Sensors based on ZnO is also depend on the surface characteristics and thermal treatment.
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What should be the core material and the process for making hollow spheres?
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Interesting..
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I am a research scholar interested in HEA.
I am in need of HEA materials.
Can You provide me some materials Sir.
Thanking You.
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National Institute of Technology(NIT)
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The area of manufacturing that I interested to know including metal or material processing and automotive industry. Thanks
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Please download for free the following article via researchgate site:
It can be helpful.
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Can anyone explain how to simulate additive manufacturing metal process in ANSYS or ABAQUS?
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This video shows the possibilities of the smulation of the additive manufacturing process with Abaqus:
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Can anyone share/email a research article on the effect of gold additions to Fe based bulk metallic glasses (BMGs).
Thanks
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Dear Syed,
I do not have worked in this field and I cannot find any paper about the effect of Gold additions to the BMGs (there are some studies made with additions of other elements such P, Si, S, etc., but I have not seen about Gold). Maybe you have the opportunity to develop any research about this particular topic. I saw your profile and I really appreciate if we continue in contact for future technical opinions. I wish you the best success in your research.
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I have been trying to prepare Ketjen Black-Sulfur composite by using SBR:CMC binder for a while. But, when I coat aluminum foil with this slurry, the coating always cracks during the drying procedure. Could you give me some advice to improve this?
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For C-coated aluminum foil in Li-ion battery, Noverite-K-702 (Lubrizol) is commerial used in this area, SBR:CMC are used as anode binder.
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The grain size of the as deposited film was higher when compared to lower temperature annealed films and found to increase on 350C annealing. Material is copper based alloy..
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I also got a similar result with my experiment. The Indium droplets on Si (100) surface seems to break up to form smaller dots when annealed in short time but the grain size increase when the annealed time is increase. What the actual explanation?
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i have milled Aluminium powder with 15%Alumina and i forgot to add stearic acid!!! so after 6 hours milling, a thick layer formed around media and in jar, I have tried 5 hours milling with stearic acid to remove that, but didn't work!!!
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Dear Hossein Fallah ,
I hope you might have solved the problem. If not, pl add toluene as PCA during milling (Wet milling) for 2-4 h and dry it to get powder particles. You could get the milled powder particles of micron size. Pl remember that the Carbon pick up in your material would be high.Try this, If you can't afford doing the milling for the second time or repeat the milling (dry milling) with 1 wt% stearic acid at the start of milling.
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We are using Silver coated Hollow Glass spheres having a size of 10 microns. Since it is very expensive and we require a good amount of seeding, we are looking into the ways for making the particles in our laboratory itself. Can anyone suggest any reference which could be helpful?
Thanks in advance.
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You probably don't need the silver coating.  I was able to use Potter's Industries glass microspheres in a water/glycerol solution (1.06 g/cc) successfully and they were much cheaper than the coated sphere options from other suppliers.  Below is a spec sheet for 110P8 which is what I used.
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[*Edit - see my post below, as I think I have a solution to this problem]
Dear researchers,
I am trying to develop a dry etch process for a single-crystal SiC chip to remove the top few hundred nanometres, leaving a smooth surface.
So far I have only been able to produce a rough surface, which also shows some strange line patterns on it (I’ll attach an image). I wonder if anyone had any insight as to how I could adjust my recipe to get a smooth etch process and also why I see this strange line patterns? Perhaps you could also suggest a better cleaning process for a multi-user, multi-process RIE system?
My guesses at potential problems are:
- Pre-chamber cleaning process is not sufficient
- Subsurface damage from the wafer polishing is being revealed. However, the polishing company specs the surface roughness to be better than 1 Angstrom RMS.
- Sputtering of the glass carrier wafer causing micromasking of the SiC - unlikely as this hasn’t been a problem with other etch processes and the process is relatively low power.
Etch recipe:
SF6 (30 sccm), ICP power = 50 W, RF plate power = 50 W (44 V measured), chamber set pressure = 15 mTorr, process time = 30 minutes.
I opted for a low power SF6 recipe with very little plate bias, as I had reasonable results with this for etching diamond for 10’s of um. Chip sits on large glass carrier wafer during the etch.
Equipment details:
RIE/ICP system - Oxford Plasmalab System 100. This system is used by a lot of people for a many different materials and processes and is has several different gases attached (not just SF6). I performed our standard cleaning process before the SiC chip was inserted - SF6 (20 sccm)/O2 (10 sccm), ICP power = 220 W, RF plate power = 50 W (6 V measured), chamber set pressure = 70 mTorr, process time = 60 minutes. The glass carrier wafer was in the chamber during the cleaning process.
SiC chip details:
Single crystal. Both sides polished to a RMS surface roughness better than 1 Angstrom. Polytype: 4H-4°.
Chip dimensions: a few mm^2, 100 um thick.
Any advice appreciated. Thanks in advance!
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Dear Daniela,
Thank you for your suggestion. Yes, that is certainly something that I could try. The thing is that I don't want to etch much more than 200 nm, so I will have to check the etch rate carefully.
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Please tell me how I can clean the surface layer of the turbine blade. The photo is attached. The chemical composition of the alloy:
Fe up to 2, C 0.14 — 0.2, Si up to 0.4, Mn up to 0.4, Ni 53.8 — 63.46, S up to 0.015, P up to 0.015, Cr 8.5 — 10.5, Ce up to 0.02, Mo 2.7 — 3.4, W 1 — 1.8, V 0.5 — 1, Co 12 — 15, Nb 0.5 — 1, Ti 4.2 — 4.7, Al 5 — 5.7, Zr up to 0.02, B up to 0.015, Pb up to 0.001, Bi up to 0.0005.
 I am interested in non abrasive treatment technologies and also in repairing technologies.
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I agree with Dr.Emil Hristov Yankov or by using acid .
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I am working on a project involving VAWT blades (about 20-30 cm long with 5-6 cm of chord length) manufacturing and I am looking for help in regards to:
1. Commonly adopted materials and manufacturing processes;
2. Very approx costs of such processes (at least orders of magnitude).
My interest lies in the blade manufacturing phase alone.
Any reference explaining and illustrating those points is very welcomed!
Thanks in advance.
E.g.: glass fiber+epoxy composites and vacuum bag processing
Process description? Costs involved?
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Thank you very much for answering! They will surely be of help.
Luckily, I also found these two works, which are pretty much in line with what I am looking for. I am linking them as an extensive description of my question:
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Hi,
I'm trying to carbon coat microparticles containing certain ratios of germanium and selenium. To do so, I'm coating the particles in polymer, and carbonizing at 600C to reduce the polymer into carbon. However, when I'm doing so, I notice that my selenium content goes to basically nothing. according to the phase diagram, the ratio of Ge and Se I'm mixing together should have a melting point of around 860C. The melting point and boiling point of Se are 221C and 685C. I can only assume that the reason why my Se is disappearing from the alloy is because of sublimation. I'm wondering if others agree that this is the case, and if so, potentially recommend a way to mitigate it
another possibility is the selenium is getting reduced via carbothermic reduction. as the polymer coating gets reduced, it will reduce oxides on the particles. The same might occur on selenium. the byproduct would be CSe2, which I don't think is a very thermodynamically favored process.. so I don't know..
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Hello Alan, that might be a sublimation of Se if phase separation occurs during heating (assuming you have intermetallic that can decompose during heating) . Another explanation is exothermic reactions occuring during polymer carbonization that can lead to local temperature increase and evaporation/sublimation from alloy/mixture.
First of all try TGA of your material first (without polymer), then with polymer. Of course you need first to weigh all the cons and pros of risk to contaminate TGA furnace. FTIR-mass spec can give some hint on what is happening/ And then you might make a decision according to your findings. However it is difficult to advise you anything - you carbonize your material at low temperature so I can not recommend to go lower. Are you sure that you have that phase which melts at 860 and nothing else? If you desperately need to coat your particles with carbon, maybe go for CVD which is accomplished at lower temperatures and in short time.
What I can recommend to try in the case if the reason lays in the exothermic reactions occuring during polymer pyrolysis: you can play with heating rate and/or introduce dwells in carbonization process which would allow to slow down the heat excretion.
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H2 has etchant effect. The etchant ability of H2 help to remove of defected site and edges in graphene structure. If we increase H2 flow rate over it's optimum amount, what would be happen????
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Dear Dr Samira, The extent of damage depends on the quality of the graphene produced. There are several factors which help you gain good quality graphene in the synthesis process. When you choose H2 as an etchant in small quantities you may get the defects removed successfully,(again here the gas flow velocity, residence time, nozzle area, Temperature and few other parameters should be also be considered and studied). But more of hydrogen also causes severe damage to the the graphene film. These papers may help you in understanding the effects: http://aip.scitation.org/doi/full/10.1063/1.4979023
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suppose we take aluminium, we fabricate aluminium metal matrix composites by any process by adding any ceramic material like SiC, Al2O3, etc.
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Porosity is dominated by alloying elements, swiril action and solidification tome.  It may be followed by semisolid processing either to drive porosity out  or to distribute it locally to make composite foam.
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I couldn't find any article regarding the metal surface condition for best result of laser welding ! 
Which type of contamination is OK/ bad for laser welding ? Is oil material affect bad the laser welding process if it is exist on the metal surface ? 
Any paper/answers regarding this issue will be very helpful ... thank you very much for your support 
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The important notification is the spectral study of the material . when the absrption edge of laser is closely the the absorption of material at this case can be used laser to modify the material surface
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By using the energy in the process
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Thank you Carlos for your Answer
Regards,Azzam
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Hello Fellows .. 
I am working on a plastic pallet (not pellet) and my intention is to make it flame retardant. For this purpose I am incorporating Magnesium Hydroxide. 
Can someone guide me the important aspect/properties I must look for in the TDS provided by supplier??
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@ Shan,
sorry for the late response. It's complicated. Maybe ammoniumsulfate or ammoniumphosphate could be interesting.
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During MCC-1; is it required to use different sample for 28 days or can we take microliter sample and replace with fresh deionised water
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Thank you Prof. Leon
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Etching process.
how to eliminate dark spots in the microstructure.I etched with glyceregia and acetic acid mixed with HCL and nitric acid.
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Electrolytic etching using 5% Nital at 5V is giving me good microstructure without dark spots. 
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I understand the importance of a chemically clean, oxide-free surface to produce a high-quality anodizing oxide film. My understanding about electropolishing is that it unavoidably produces a thin layer of aluminum oxide on the aluminum surface. So I don't understand why electropolishing is a common treatment before anodizing although it doesn't clean up the oxide like the mechanical polishing does. Thank you for any insight on this.
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The following RG discussion may possibly be found of some interest concerning to your query: https://www.researchgate.net/post/What_is_possible_technique_for_polishing_single_crystal_aluminium_for_EBSD_analysis
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My synthesis was of Shell and Core arrangement. Shell is CaCO3 and Core is Heptadecane. Temperature range was from 0 to to 50°C at rate of 5°C/min. For pure Heptadecae the peaks were obtained 12°C and 25°C while heating and 5°C and 18°C while cooling.
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The baseline (straight line) between peaks means that no physical or chemical process occurs since no endothermic, exothermic or change of Cp (like Tg) is recorded.I guess that the two phenomena are revirsible since we can see them during both heating and cooling with a shift of the temperature what is quite normal for several pheomena (like fusion and recrystallization for e.g.)
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In Plasma Electrolytic Oxidation reaction arcing happens, when applied voltage exceeds breakdown voltage, which implies dielectric breakdown, this is defined as arc regime. Again after some time of reaction voltage reduces below breakdown voltage and no visible arcing happens this time, therefore this time of reaction defined as the soft regime.
This arc and the soft regime we can observe and can also drive using the value of voltage according to time. But, can we predict these regimes by making some mathematical calculations?
Thank you.
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 Dear Krunal,
Usually we consider that the main parameter to predict whether you will be in arc or soft regime is the ratio positive to negative charge quantities (Qp/Qn) (cf the paper of Flore Jaspard suggested by Anastasiia). This ratio should be below 1 for soft regime and above 1 for arc regime. However, if you inject to much negative charges, then the coating will not be uniform [1] and therefore we usually consider that the optimal conditions for soft regime are a Qp/Qn between 0.8 and 0.9.
Then you should take into account that soft regime appears only after a certain time that depends upon the frequency, the current density [2] or the electrolyte ageing [3]. In short soft regime appears earlier at higher frequency, higher current densities in an aged electrolyte. 
Finally the composition of the electrolyte should play a role but it is not yet quantified. Kamil et al. [4] have shown that soft regime can be obtained by adding complex ions. Martin el al. [1] have shown that a delay in discharging appears before the transition to soft regime which may be related to a mechanism of charge accumulation at the electrolyte/coating interface. These are rather complex phenomena that are still under investigation.
I do hope it will help, if you have more questions, do not hesitate
Alex
References:
[2] Martin et al. Surface & Coatings Technology 221 (2013) 70–76  http://dx.doi.org/10.1016/j.surfcoat.2013.01.029
[3] Martin et al. Surface & Coatings Technology 269 (2015) 36–46 http://dx.doi.org/10.1016/j.surfcoat.2014.11.001
[4] Kamil et al. Scientific Reports 7, Article number: 44458 (2017)
doi:10.1038/srep44458
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Assuming that it is a high temperature SOFC operating above 800C temperature,
1. What are the parameters (constraints) for this optimizations problem (What is the objective of this project)?
2. Since the title says SOFC, are you trying to optimize microstructures of anode, cathode and electrolyte or only one of them?
I think you must have planned design of expts in a specific design space. Have you also considered the effect of layer dimensions, electrode sintering process parameters like temperature profiles, shrinkage characteristics etc as well in your study? Any cell life studies planned for this optimization?
I wish you success in reaching your research objectives and very interested in new findings based on your research.
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Prasad
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Dear Dr Prasard.
sorry, I'm not SOFC Specialist.
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I've found some standard drawings for I-shaped sections, but nothing for cross columns.
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One of the most commonly used Resistive Material (SFRM) methods is spraying. There are specialized guns at large construction sites. Rotatably through a rotor sprayer at single small objects.
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It's about fabrication of pressure sensor.
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Dear Jose,
Layer L is a typo error.
My brief process floe is like this,
1. Silicon wafer 100 orientation
2. SiO2 development on the device layer
3. TMAH etching from back side
4. Then development of Polysilicon on top os SiO2 using CVD
so my question is once I perform TMAH, can I take my device to CVD chamber, is that allowed. Please tell me if their any other alternate way to deposit Polysilicon after TMAH process. (provided DRIE/RIE is not an option as those machines are not available)
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Materials engineering and Materials scientific
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During compaction several types of friction occur as follows: (a) friction between moving punches and die wall, which is relatively small and pressure loss caused by it is particularly negligible, (b) friction between adjacent particles which is insignificant and plays a minor part in compaction, (c) internal friction within the powder particles during deformation, (d) friction between powder particles and the die wall, (this is one of the most important factors which affects the uniformity of density throughout the compacted part. This is the primary source or pressure loss during pressing and the magnitude of its effect is dependent upon powder material, particle size, and its distribution, particle shape and surface condition and the inter-particle pressure) and (e) friction between the green compact and the die wall during ejection. This type of friction depends upon the powder material, die finish and tolerance and the compacting pressure. 
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I am asking about Al-ZnO composites related to Mechanical point of view.
If any paper publish on Al-ZnO fabricated through casting process in any journal,
pls send link/title.
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ZnO is seldem used as direct reinforcement for aluminum matrix composite. Mostly, ZnO was used as a coating material to improve the wettability between reinforcement and aluminum matrix.  However , few literatures are available in the following link.
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Hi Dears
my project is microstructure aluminide coating investigate with reduce the size of the aluminum particles in pack cementation. I use of Optical Microscope for microstructure investigate. What solution would I use? Etching Time ?(substrate is Nickel superalloy)
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Dear Parisa Eftekharimilani
Than you for answer.
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i need some article or book a bout simulation of residual stress with Abaqus or sysweld software in nickel base supperalloy 939.
does anyone have information about this topics?
my project is 'Residual stresses and HAZ simulation in welding of Nickel-base supperalloy (inconel 939) considering phase transformations'
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I find eng tip forum and abaqus yahoo group very useful, especially David Lindeman's tips.
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Can I put ice cubes into Ultrasonic bath while it was running. My purpose here is to cool down the temperature of the bath. Thank you. 
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Hi, Chingyeh Ong
We use only this method for prevention any contamination (usual procedure is part cleaning ) . Possible you can see my attached picture
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It is very important that the performance of weld metal should be same as SC NiFe-1 & 2 electrodes. 
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If you are looking for high-nickel electrode you migth check NiCro 31/27. If your parts operate at temperatures below 200C you might consider braze welding using e.g. CuAl8 or CuZn, etc. However, In my opinion the cheapest solution, which might work, will be use of an austenitic stainless steel grades such as 304 (AWS 308, ISO 14343-A: G 19 9 L).
Good luck.
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Anti-Sinking Composite Materials for Ships.
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نعم تستطيع ولكن بيا برنامج
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In friction stir welding high heat input results in grain growth for aluminium.Grain growth is also higher for slower cooling rate in aluminium since time for growth will be more as a general saying.Than how cooling rate and peak temperature are related .Is it possible that higher peak temperature will results in slower cooling or lower cooling rate (for natural condition where no cooling arrangement has done other than normal air cooling) thus resulting in grain growth .
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A basic parameter linking surface temperature and cooling rate is the thermal conductivity of the material. It depends on how much detail and the size of the crystal structure will be.
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what is the best conductive material for induction heating susceptor at 1200 °C? which should work in both inert and oxidizing atm.
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Dear Umish,
I think the most suitable susceptor material for inductive heating may be SiC coated with SiO2 protective layer against the oxidation process. You may use graphite susceptor which is coated by sufficiently thick oxide layer. For all possible suceptors please refer to the link: http://www.pillar.com/default.asp?id=48
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why a thin blade of iron whose density is greater than water float it the surface of water
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This is probably due to poor wetting of the iron by the water. If the contact angle of the water-iron surface is less then 90 degree, the water is repelled from the iron surface (you can try a single water drop and see if this flows out (wetting the surface) or remains a droplet reluctant to wet the iron.
If the surface is water repelling, it is hard to get the water surrounding the object and this avoids it from sinking.  
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i need some information a bout inconel 939 (nickel base supper alloy) included it's phisycal properties, yield strength, uts and its phase in different temperature.
please share with me this information.
Tnx
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Please have a look at the links.
In the second link  Inconel 939 pops up at page 42 and 43.
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i am a research scholar working in process metallurgy area, i just want to know why Cu is used for tip of the lance in LD converter? why not any other material
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Because of its high thermal conductivity.
The tip of the lance (nozzle) has a continuous, high pressure water supply to keep the lance cool. Without this cooling, the lance would not survive as temperatures easily reach 1800-2000C. Using a high thermally conductive metal like copper simply makes it easier to cool the lance and avoid overheating.
Not just LD, most water jackets are made of copper for this purpose.
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who can help me about "Incoloy 907" its (Fe-Ni-Co-Nb-Ti) superalloy. i need some information about: product approach, deformation, heat treatment and microstructrue. please guide me.
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Dear Mehdi,
please have a look at the links.
From the second link you may dowload the product specifications too.
 Good luck
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How to differentiate between phase separation induced crystallization and spinodal decomposition and techniques required to establish them?
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 Phase diagram of the separation has a binodal and a spinodal. On the binodal, the chemical potentials of the two phases are equal. Crystallization occurs in supersaturated metastable states between the binodal and the spinodal.
Analytical condition for spinodal decomposition of binary solution is the zero of the second derivative of the Gibbs energy of a thermodynamic system over the concentration one component. The unstable state of the system is reached on spinodal.  A substance (solution), being in a labile state, rapidly loses its spatial homogeneity, and during relaxation its structure becomes more granular-cellular, without the phase boundaries.
 Techniques required to establish them : J. Physique. 1986. V.47. P.733.
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The valves are made up of Stainless Steel and the nanocoatings will be deposited on the stainless steel. 
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Ajay Rakkesh ·and Gyorgy Banhegyi are already put the good answer
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Part - Al-aloy A334 (Si9Cu3-T8), Hardness - 90HB
Milling cutter - Mapal, with diameter 200mm
Stock removal - 5mm
Surface requirements - wt=max10micron, Ra=max0.8micron
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Hi dear friend
at first which grade of Al alloy do you want to machining?
and by follow each grade of Al alloy need coolant because of BOE cheap formation on the cutting edge but each grade need special coolant
but I prefer use compressed air or N2 as coolant because of no pollution and cheapness of these gasses.
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In electronic microscope the we need high vacuum to attain high quality images.
How to safeguard our FESEM or TEM instrument from unknown sample releasing impurity while analysis?
Where as the unknown sample may release gaseous impurity even after drying and keeping in desiccator. 
What are all the pre-analysis We need to do before insertion of unknown sample
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@Ajay Rakkesh 
Air compressor (if used) is not connected in any way to specimen chamber and has nothing to do with "collection" of impurities. 
@Yashwanth Purushotham
There is no simple answer to your question. You'll always have outgassing when pumping out your microscope with specimen in; it is not dangerous in most cases. Avoid oily, greasy and partially polymerized things. And no kid's clay in your instrument. 
As Domenico said, it could be beneficial to treat a questionable specimen with vacuum. If pumping time is longer than usual, you may have a problem.
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The vessel is 20 mm thick and as to resist to sparks with temperature of 2500 K and 30 bar for hundred of microseconds and has to be realized with a 5-axis CNC.
I could choose between 304, 316, 430 and 441, but if somebody have better ideas I may choose other ones. 
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I used a 304 that is very common and easy to manufacture. Thank you everybody for the help
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Is there any extra equipment for SEM imaging on Lithium metal?
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Dear Jian,
You can use electron energy loss spectroscopy (EELS) for determining Lithium. Check a few examples at the next bibliography:
Single-atom electron energy loss spectroscopy of light elements Nat Commun. 2015; 6: 7943.
EELS probing of lithium based 2-D battery compounds processed by liquid
phase exfoliation Nano Energy 30 (2016) 18–26
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Gil
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The nanocoating will be deposited on the inner side of the nut. The inner side of the nut is a threaded surface.  The nut is made up of stainless steel. While some nuts will be deposited with a silver coating , while others will be without silver coating. 
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Depending on how thick your coating is going to be, calipers might be used to measure the thickness difference between coated and uncoated nuts, if measured at the same location. 
If you have access to a confocal microscope, then building a 3D image by laser scanned microscopy of the nut before and after coating is perhaps best for measuring the coating thickness.
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Hi friends.
Some of you know which is the best method to turning large pieces of Hadfield steels (Manganese from 12% to 18%)?
Tool material?
Tool geometry?
Dry or wet?
Cutting parameters?
Anything else?
Many thanks.
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Daniel: hay un sitio interesante: http://www.practicalmachinist.com/; también una publicación:
MACHINING OF HADFIELD STEEL : AN
OVERVIEW   Orhan Cakir
 que se puede bajar de internet .
Suerte
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It has been observed that during monsoon packed aluminium wire rod has tendency to attain black patches sometimes due to water seepage during transit or storage . What is this behavior of aluminium .
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The most likely answer is 'tramp iron' staining of the oxide coating. This is caused by direct and indirect (through water seepage)  of the aluminium with mild or medium carbon steels. It propagates in 2 ways;
  1.  Mechanically through iron oxides leaching into and staining the Alo2,
  2.  Electrolytically through moist contact with the steel.
One of the principal sources of the iron is the bandstrapping used to hold rolls of al. sheet or bundles of rods together. These should always be a soft stainless steel or heavyweight plastic for Aluminium
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I am interested to know if I change graphite composition in lubricant..how it will effect friction characteristics in forging process?
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Ajeet and KangHyung's answers are both very professional and correct. In addition, in terms of forging, cold or hot? the hot forging processing takes time, the reaction between lubricant and workpeice should be taken into consideration, so that changing the surface condition and tribological condition, and affecting COF. And considering the graphite size, forging temperature, etc.
Anyway, the effect of graphite in lubrication on COF is complicated.
I hope it helps
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Dear researchers:
I am facing a problem with electrode making. I wanted to make electrode for coin cell. After making slurry of rGO:PVDF: AB (70:15:15), I spread the slurry on aluminium foil. Then heat it for 1 hr at 100 C to dry.
But problem is that the layer of mixture breaking out. There are lots of cracks. I have attached a picture.
I am wondering if any of you can give me possible suggestions or solutions of the issue. I look forward to hear from you.
Thank you for your time and help in advance.
With regards,
Nayan
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Hi Mayan
The cracking is probably due to your coatings drying too quickly. Try slowly heating them from room temperature to 100 oC, or alternatively drying at a much lower temperature.
You could also try reducing the amount of solvent in your slurry.
Best regards
Geoff
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Hello to all
I seek for furnace maker specially for AZS brick (zac refractory).
For producing AZS refractories an electrical arc furnace (EAF) is necessary.
I need a EAF for 5-10 tonne/day AZS melting. AZS has the formulation as "46% Al2O3, 42% ZrO2 and 12% SiO2.
Can anyone help me by introducing who can make such as this furnaces?
Thank you very much
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Thank you Vadim Verlotski. But I need some manufacturer of ZAC making furnace.
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I was struggling for last couple of weeks by varying various parameters of DRIE like SF6 , C2F4 flow rate, platen power(5 to 10W), ICP power (1000~3000W), vacuum (20~25 mtorr) but in none of the case it is becoming black silicon. The surface is becoming rough but not as rough as black silicon should be. Our idea is to make superhydrophobic surface by black silicon approach. It would be nics if you share your experience whoever done this. Our machine is SPTS DRIE.
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Thanks Dr. Cosimo.
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Why in SEM, a dielectric specimen coated with a metallic? and why the metallic coating should be a carbon or gold?
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I would just add that the metal coating, whichever the material chosen, must be thin enaugh to assure that the surface morphology is not altered or smeared out and that the most of your probed volume involves your original sample. Gold or Carbon are typical choices either because easy to be quickly deposited as thin films and because they do not affect surface stoichiometry  of the sample
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i am asking regarding research related query
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The thicknesses of the films decreased with increase in coating speed, but this due to decreasing of optical absorption, so I think in your case,  with  increasing the spin coating speed the  particles size increases or may be aggregated
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These oxides readily absorb moisture from air. As a result, after storage the material transforms into a mixture of RE2O3, REOOH and even RE(OH)3. Annealing leads to the water removal and formation of the stoichiometric oxide.
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Hello everyone! I need help with a material : Stainless Steel 316. Does any of you ever created a process with it in Simapro? I need to include it in my LCA but I am not very sure on how to integrate its composition with that available on the software (steel chromium 18/8).
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Noemi
In terms of energy consumption during manufacture and transport for SS316 and 304 the costs will be so similar as to make no difference. You could probably use the data for the 18/8 with confidence.
Also note that stainless steel have very high recycled content (the scrap has intrinsic value at end of life) and most new steel is produced via the electric arc furnace route rather than blast furnace.
For more info on sustainability related to stainless see:
which may have some useful background information.
Cheers
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Steel A exhibits equiaxed uniform grains and steel B shows equiaxed non-uniform grains. Both the materials have same chemistry. Which material shows early crack initiation and why?. Please share the relevant literature.
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In my opinion, it is not only the grain size or shape, but you should check for chemistry, too (e.g. EDS). If bondings are weaker in one material at the grain boundaries, e.g. through precipitations or a high amount of high-angle GB, this will crack earlier.
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Hello to all,
I need to know, How can I calculate defect formation energy for a doped titanium di-oxide?
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defect_formation_E = E_structure_with_defect +n*E_per_atom_removed - E_perfect_structure
Using DFT you can calculate energies of perfect and defect containing structure. n is # of atoms removed. Only tricky part is E_per_atom_removed calculation. If the atom removed is in solid phase then you can easily calculate energy/atom from its bulk energy. If it is in gas phase then use molecule in a box calculation as shown in this paper.
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I'm looking for a constitutive equation that can model the powder (particles) rearrangement under isostatic pressure and temperature while taking into account the effect of powder morphology (size/distribution). Any suggestions?
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There are a lot of compaction equations which differ in interpretation of their coeficients. Selection of applied equation depend on your ppwder material system and depend on required descriptor of the results. Is your powder ceramic (rigid) metallic (able to plastic deformation) or polimeric (extrem elastic and plastic deformation)? You can find some starting overview here: Panelli R., Filho A.R.: A study of a new phenomenological compacting equation, Powder Technology 114 2001 255–261
or some comparison of metalic, ceramic and polymeric systems: https://www.epma.com/world-pm2010-proceedings/422-world-pm2010-powder-pressing/file
critical comparison of heckel and Kawakita equations is here: https://doi.org/10.1016/S0032-5910(02)00111-0
or relatively new contribution of G. Aryanpour: https://doi.org/10.1016/j.powtec.2015.02.032
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I am looking to find commercial available Flame retardant materials so that I can implement them in my plastic pallets which are HDPE-silica composite.
The presence of silica do enhance the FR properties, however our intentions are to get UL/FM certifications for the pallet. Please suggest your expertise. 
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There are many flame retardants for plastic pellets that are available these days. An old example “ which I knew when I was student” was antimony trioxide with brominated or chlorinated compounds. The presence of halogen atoms is what effects its retardation action. In the literature & websites , you will find several organic halogen compounds suggested & were used for this purpose.
For reasons that cannot be discussed here, there has been a trend to switch into inorganic flame retardants . Those which showed good performance are the hydrated minerals. The most common inorganic flame retardants are the hydroxides of aluminum & magnesium. Al(OH)3 –made from alumina – is the most widely used flame retardant. Mg(OH)2 is quite good for plastics which require high processing temperatures.
I am adding this MSc thesis about flame retardants in the file below.
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I want to make a uniform distribution of 2 different phases, both nanoparticles, by using ball-milling by changing the milling time. Will there be any change? Is there any mathematical model to support this?
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Hello Sir, @Yehia F. Khalil
I just want to get a bit more clarification on the answer you gave. By probabilistic in nature you mean to say that if I B-M the sample for the same amount of time in, suppose, two different but identical machine, the outcome will be different?