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Metals, Volume 5, Issue 4

December 2015 - 50 articles

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Articles (50)

  • Article
  • Open Access
3 Citations
5,950 Views
7 Pages

Hot Ductility Loss in a Fe-Ni-Based Superalloy

  • Chen-Wei Li,
  • An-Chou Yeh,
  • Chi-San Chen and
  • Woei-Ren Wang

21 December 2015

High temperature tensile tests have been conducted on samples of a Fe-Ni based superalloy, Incoloy A-286, and significant ductility loss has been observed at 1220 °C. Titanium-rich, thin-film-like phase has been found on the inter-granular facets of...

  • Article
  • Open Access
9 Citations
5,774 Views
15 Pages

Direct Aqueous Mineral Carbonation of Waste Slate Using Ammonium Salt Solutions

  • Hwanju Jo,
  • Ho Young Jo,
  • Sunwon Rha and
  • Pyeong-Koo Lee

18 December 2015

The carbonation of asbestos-containing waste slate using a direct aqueous mineral carbonation method was evaluated. Leaching and carbonation tests were conducted on asbestos-containing waste slate using ammonium salt (CH3COONH4, NH4NO3, and NH4HSO4)...

  • Article
  • Open Access
13 Citations
5,670 Views
12 Pages

17 December 2015

Superparamagnetic nanomaterials are showing great prospects in medical treatments with targeting medicines. A new conductive superparamagnetic nanocomposite, γ-Fe2O3/polyaniline-curcumin (γ-Fe2O3/PANI-curcumin), was prepared by using the interaction...

  • Article
  • Open Access
11 Citations
5,985 Views
11 Pages

14 December 2015

The galvanic corrosion behavior of Alloy 690 coupled with magnetite has been investigated in an alkaline solution at 30 °C and 60 °C using a potentiodynamic polarization method and a zero resistance ammeter. The positive current values were recorded...

  • Article
  • Open Access
59 Citations
7,037 Views
10 Pages

A Simple Up-Scalable Thermal Treatment Method for Synthesis of ZnO Nanoparticles

  • Phin Jit Lee,
  • Elias Saion,
  • Naif Mohammed Al-Hada and
  • Nayereh Soltani

14 December 2015

A simple thermal treatment method, utilizing only zinc nitrate, polyvinyl pyrrolidone (PVP), and deionized water, was used to synthesize ZnO nanoparticles, and their characteristics were investigated by various techniques. The TGA measurement demonst...

  • Article
  • Open Access
19 Citations
7,318 Views
19 Pages

10 December 2015

Tensile and compression tests were carried out on a ductile cast iron for temperatures up to 1073 K. The damage caused inside and around graphite nodules was evaluated as a function of the local equivalent plastic strain by using microstructural quan...

  • Article
  • Open Access
8 Citations
5,845 Views
12 Pages

Modeling of TiAl Alloy Grating by Investment Casting

  • Yi Jia,
  • Shulong Xiao,
  • Jing Tian,
  • Lijuan Xu and
  • Yuyong Chen

9 December 2015

The investment casting of TiAl alloys has become the most promising cost-effective technique for manufacturing TiAl components. This study aimed to investigate a series of problems associated with the investment casting of TiAl alloys. The mold filli...

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