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Metals, Volume 7, Issue 7

2017 July - 52 articles

Cover Story: Structural model of the coherent interface between κ-carbide and fcc-Fe for density-functional theory simulations: orange-colored planes signify (100) layers containing C and Fe atoms, while blue-colored planes mark Fe/Al layers; pure Fe layers are unmarked. The translucent green spheres represent empty octahedral sites which may incorporate H or C atoms. View Paper here
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Articles (52)

  • Article
  • Open Access
11 Citations
4,812 Views
15 Pages

24 July 2017

The microstructures and tensile properties of as-cast and as-extruded Mg–4Sm–xZn–0.5Zr (x = 0, 1, 2, 3, 4 wt %) alloys were systematically investigated by optical microscope, X-ray diffractometer (XRD), scanning electron microscope (SEM) and transmis...

  • Article
  • Open Access
61 Citations
8,932 Views
11 Pages

Aluminum and Nickel Matrix Composites Reinforced by CNTs: Dispersion/Mixture by Ultrasonication

  • Sónia Simões,
  • Filomena Viana,
  • Marcos A. L. Reis and
  • Manuel F. Vieira

22 July 2017

The main challenge in the production of metal matrix composites reinforced by carbon nanotubes (CNTs) is the development of a manufacturing process ensuring the dispersion of nanoparticles without damaging them, and the formation of a strong bond wit...

  • Article
  • Open Access
4 Citations
5,517 Views
18 Pages

Effect of Structural Heterogeneity of 17Mn1Si Steel on the Temperature Dependence of Impact Deformation and Fracture

  • Dmitry Moiseenko,
  • Pavlo Maruschak,
  • Sergey Panin,
  • Pavel Maksimov,
  • Ilya Vlasov,
  • Filippo Berto,
  • Siegfried Schmauder and
  • Alexey Vinogradov

22 July 2017

The paper deals with a theoretical and experimental study of the relationship between the microstructural parameters, mechanical properties, and impact deformation and fracture of steels using the example of 17Mn1Si pipe steel. A model for the behavi...

  • Article
  • Open Access
25 Citations
7,426 Views
13 Pages

Transition of the Interface between Iron and Carbide Precipitate From Coherent to Semi-Coherent

  • Hideaki Sawada,
  • Shunsuke Taniguchi,
  • Kazuto Kawakami and
  • Taisuke Ozaki

19 July 2017

There are some precipitates that undergo transition from a coherent to semi-coherent state during growth. An example of such a precipitate in steel is carbide with a NaCl-type structure, such as TiC and NbC. The interface energy between carbide preci...

  • Article
  • Open Access
31 Citations
7,057 Views
17 Pages

Effect of Pyrite on Thiosulfate Leaching of Gold and the Role of Ammonium Alcohol Polyvinyl Phosphate (AAPP)

  • Xiaoliang Liu,
  • Bin Xu,
  • Xin Min,
  • Qian Li,
  • Yongbin Yang,
  • Tao Jiang,
  • Yinghe He and
  • Xi Zhang

19 July 2017

The effect of pyrite and the role of ammonium alcohol polyvinyl phosphate (AAPP) during gold leaching in ammoniacal thiosulfate solutions were investigated using pure gold foils. The results showed that pyrite catalyzed the decomposition and also sig...

  • Article
  • Open Access
16 Citations
4,887 Views
20 Pages

Feature Size Effect on Formability of Multilayer Metal Composite Sheets under Microscale Laser Flexible Forming

  • Huixia Liu,
  • Wenhao Zhang,
  • Jenn-Terng Gau,
  • Zongbao Shen,
  • Youjuan Ma,
  • Guoce Zhang and
  • Xiao Wang

18 July 2017

Multilayer metal composite sheets possess superior properties to monolithic metal sheets, and formability is different from monolithic metal sheets. In this research, the feature size effect on formability of multilayer metal composite sheets under m...

  • Article
  • Open Access
4 Citations
4,918 Views
10 Pages

18 July 2017

Infrared dissimilar joining Ti50Ni50 and 316L stainless steel using Cu foil in between Cusil-ABA and BAg-8 filler metals has been studied. The Cu foil serves as a barrier layer with thicknesses of 70 μm and 50 μm, and it successfully isolates the int...

  • Article
  • Open Access
34 Citations
6,145 Views
17 Pages

Excellent Performance of Fe78Si9B13 Metallic Glass for Activating Peroxymonosulfate in Degradation of Naphthol Green B

  • Xue-Fen Li,
  • Shun-Xing Liang,
  • Xiao-Wang Xi,
  • Zhe Jia,
  • Shi-Kun Xie,
  • He-Chun Lin,
  • Jun-Ping Hu and
  • Lai-Chang Zhang

17 July 2017

The functional application of metallic glasses in the catalytic field has widely attracted research attention due to its unique atomic structure compared to crystalline materials. It has been reported that metallic glasses can effectively activate H2...

  • Article
  • Open Access
18 Citations
4,939 Views
16 Pages

17 July 2017

Various service life prediction models of organic coatings were analyzed based on the acquirement of the measurement of Electrochemical Impedance Spectroscopy (EIS) from indoor accelerated tests. First, some theoretical formulas on corrosion lifetime...

  • Article
  • Open Access
57 Citations
9,115 Views
12 Pages

14 July 2017

A novel technique was developed for the recovery of lithium and aluminum from coal fly ash using a combination of pre-desilication and an intensified acid leaching process. The main components of the high-aluminum fly ash were found to be Al2O3 and S...

  • Article
  • Open Access
8 Citations
9,734 Views
10 Pages

13 July 2017

NiTi shape memory alloy (SMA) tube was coupled with mild steel cylinder in order to investigate deformation mechanisms of NiTi SMA tubes undergoing radial loading. NiTi SMA tubes of interest deal with two kinds of nominal compositions; namely, Ni-50...

  • Feature Paper
  • Article
  • Open Access
16 Citations
9,332 Views
12 Pages

Microstructure and Mechanical Properties of Ti5553 Butt Welds Performed by LBW under Conduction Regime

  • Jose Maria Sánchez-Amaya,
  • Timotius Pasang,
  • Margarita Raquel Amaya-Vazquez,
  • Juan De Dios Lopez-Castro,
  • Cristina Churiaque,
  • Yuan Tao and
  • Francisco Javier Botana Pedemonte

13 July 2017

Ti-5Al-5V-5Mo-3Cr (Ti5553) is a metastable β titanium alloy with a high potential use in the aeronautic industry due to its high strength, excellent hardenability, fracture toughness and high fatigue resistance. However, recent research shows this al...

  • Article
  • Open Access
24 Citations
7,020 Views
13 Pages

13 July 2017

Fiber laser welding of dissimilar materials between AISI316L austenitic stainless steel and EH36 ship steels were conducted. Then the effects of welding speed on microstructure and mechanical characterization of the welded joint were investigated. Op...

  • Article
  • Open Access
40 Citations
8,687 Views
15 Pages

13 July 2017

An inductive sensor developed by Philips ATC has been used to study in-situ the austenite (γ) to martensite (α′) phase transformation kinetics during tensile testing in an AISI 301 austenitic stainless steel. A correlation between the sensor output s...

  • Article
  • Open Access
20 Citations
9,097 Views
17 Pages

12 July 2017

This paper deals with a novel fabrication method (a vacuum rapid solidification technique) to prepare in situ Ti5Si3/Ti composite ribbon as inoculants to modify Ti6Al4V alloy to obtain titanium matrix composites (TMCs). Microstructure and morphology...

  • Feature Paper
  • Article
  • Open Access
36 Citations
8,117 Views
15 Pages

The Role of κ-Carbides as Hydrogen Traps in High-Mn Steels

  • Tobias A. Timmerscheidt,
  • Poulumi Dey,
  • Dimitri Bogdanovski,
  • Jörg Von Appen,
  • Tilmann Hickel,
  • Jörg Neugebauer and
  • Richard Dronskowski

11 July 2017

Since the addition of Al to high-Mn steels is known to reduce their sensitivity to hydrogen-induced delayed fracture, we investigate possible trapping effects connected to the presence of Al in the grain interior employing density-functional theory (...

  • Article
  • Open Access
12 Citations
7,480 Views
13 Pages

Low Cycle Fatigue Behaviour of DP Steels: Micromechanical Modelling vs. Validation

  • Ghazal Moeini,
  • Ali Ramazani,
  • Sebastian Myslicki,
  • Veera Sundararaghavan and
  • Carsten Könke

11 July 2017

This study aims to simulate the stabilised stress-strain hysteresis loop of dual phase (DP) steel using micromechanical modelling. For this purpose, the investigation was conducted both experimentally and numerically. In the experimental part, the mi...

  • Article
  • Open Access
45 Citations
9,236 Views
13 Pages

10 July 2017

Two low carbon carbide-free bainitic steels (with and without Cr addition) were designed, and each steel was treated by two kinds of heat treatment procedure (austempering and continuous cooling). The effects of Cr addition on bainitic transformation...

  • Article
  • Open Access
19 Citations
5,225 Views
11 Pages

10 July 2017

It is unavoidable that Fe impurities will be mixed into Al alloys during recycling of automotive aluminum parts, and the Fe content has a significant effect on the mechanical properties of the recycled Al alloys. In this work, hot compression tests o...

  • Article
  • Open Access
15 Citations
4,424 Views
10 Pages

8 July 2017

The dynamic recrystallization (DRX) behavior of Ti-45Al-8.5Nb-0.2W-0.2B-0.3Y (at %) alloy has been investigated through hot compression tests. The tests were executed at a temperature range of 1000–1200 °C and a strain rate range of 0.001–1 s−1 under...

  • Article
  • Open Access
10 Citations
6,388 Views
12 Pages

Localization Phenomena in Disordered Tantalum Films

  • Natalia Kovaleva,
  • Dagmar Chvostova and
  • Alexandr Dejneka

7 July 2017

Using dc transport and wide-band spectroscopic ellipsometry techniques we study localization phenomena in highly disordered metallic β -Ta films grown by rf sputtering deposition. The dc transport study implies non-metallic behavior (d ρ /dT...

  • Article
  • Open Access
7 Citations
7,104 Views
12 Pages

7 July 2017

The results of the full-scale testing of the Extruded Briquettes (BREX) as the charge components of the industrial Midrex reactor are discussed. The influence of the type of binder on the degree of metallization of BREX is analyzed. Magnesium sulfate...

  • Article
  • Open Access
9 Citations
8,278 Views
14 Pages

7 July 2017

Ultrahigh strength steel 56NiCrMoV7 was austempered at 270 °C for different durations in order to investigate the microstructure evolution, carbon partitioning behaviour and hardness property. Detailed microstructure has been characterised using opti...

  • Article
  • Open Access
2 Citations
4,912 Views
11 Pages

7 July 2017

The influence from residual surface stresses on global indentation properties, i.e., hardness and size of the contact area, have been studied quite frequently in recent years. A fundamental assumption when evaluating such tests is that the material h...

  • Article
  • Open Access
88 Citations
9,607 Views
15 Pages

A Finite Element Model to Simulate Defect Formation during Friction Stir Welding

  • Zhi Zhu,
  • Min Wang,
  • Huijie Zhang,
  • Xiao Zhang,
  • Tao Yu and
  • Zhenqiang Wu

7 July 2017

In this study, a 3D coupled thermo-mechanical finite element model is developed to predict and analyze the defect formation during friction stir welding based on coupled Eulerian Lagrangian method. The model is validated by comparing the estimated we...

  • Article
  • Open Access
10 Citations
7,361 Views
17 Pages

On the Short Surface Fatigue Crack Growth Behavior in a Fine-Grained WC-Co Cemented Carbide

  • Hiroko Mikado,
  • Sotomi Ishihara,
  • Noriyasu Oguma and
  • Shingo Kawamura

6 July 2017

In the present study, the fatigue crack growth (FCG) behavior of short surface cracks in a fine-grained cemented carbide with a length of less than 1 mm was investigated. The rotating bending and the four-point bending fatigue tests were carried out...

  • Feature Paper
  • Article
  • Open Access
33 Citations
14,053 Views
13 Pages

High-Temperature Tempered Martensite Embrittlement in Quenched-and-Tempered Offshore Steels

  • Hung-Wei Yen,
  • Meng-Hsuan Chiang,
  • Yu-Chen Lin,
  • Delphic Chen,
  • Ching-Yuan Huang and
  • Hsin-Chih Lin

6 July 2017

Embrittlement induced by high-temperature tempering was investigated in two quenched-and-tempered offshore steels. Electron backscattering diffraction and analysis of Kernel average misorientation were applied to study the coalescence of martensite;...

  • Feature Paper
  • Article
  • Open Access
27 Citations
7,457 Views
16 Pages

Failure Assessment of Steel/CFRP Double Strap Joints

  • Hamid Reza Majidi,
  • Seyed Mohammad Javad Razavi and
  • Filippo Berto

6 July 2017

In the current study, the failure behavior of retrofitted steel structures was studied experimentally and theoretically with steel/carbon fiber reinforced polymer (CFRP) double strap joints (DSJs) under quasi-static tensile loading. A series of DSJs...

  • Article
  • Open Access
6 Citations
4,457 Views
8 Pages

5 July 2017

In order to investigate the different effects of trace TiB and TiC on the microstructure and the mechanical properties of Ti-5Al-5Mo-5V-1Fe-1Cr Ti alloy, two different modified Ti-5Al-5Mo-5V-1Fe-1Cr Ti alloys are fabricated via a consumable vacuum ar...

  • Article
  • Open Access
24 Citations
9,937 Views
12 Pages

5 July 2017

Decreasing the weight of heavy-duty vehicles is an ongoing concern. However, the need to deal with high temperatures in components such as manifolds imposes, by itself, some restrictions regarding material selection, being further limited when other...

  • Review
  • Open Access
129 Citations
11,684 Views
41 Pages

5 July 2017

The future of biomaterial design will rely on temporary implant materials that degrade while tissues grow, releasing no toxic species during degradation and no residue after full regeneration of the targeted anatomic site. In this aspect, Mg and its...

  • Article
  • Open Access
9 Citations
5,408 Views
12 Pages

Comparative Investigation of Tungsten Fibre Nets Reinforced Tungsten Composite Fabricated by Three Different Methods

  • Linhui Zhang,
  • Yan Jiang,
  • Qianfeng Fang,
  • Rui Liu,
  • Zhuoming Xie,
  • Tao Zhang,
  • Xianping Wang and
  • Changsong Liu

4 July 2017

Tungsten fibre nets reinforced tungsten composites (Wf/W) containing four net layers were fabricated by spark plasma sintering (SPS), hot pressing (HP) and cold rolling after HP (HPCR), with the weight fraction of fibres being 17.4%, 10.5% and 10.5%,...

  • Feature Paper
  • Article
  • Open Access
26 Citations
7,812 Views
15 Pages

3 July 2017

Areca nut waste was utilized to obtain high surface area activated carbon (AC), and it was further functionalized with succinic anhydride under microwave irradiation. The surface morphology and surface functional groups of the materials were discusse...

  • Article
  • Open Access
6 Citations
4,568 Views
14 Pages

3 July 2017

Au-Ge-Ni solder was chosen for brazing of the Cu-Cr-Zr alloy cylinder and a part with a cylindrical hole (sleeve) below 550 °C. The Au based solder was first sintered on the surface of the cylinder and then brazed to the inner surface of the sleeve....

  • Article
  • Open Access
5 Citations
4,174 Views
10 Pages

Analysis of Relaxation Processes in HNS Due to Interstitial-Substitutional Pairs

  • Alessandra Fava,
  • Roberto Montanari,
  • Maria Richetta and
  • Alessandra Varone

2 July 2017

Mechanical Spectroscopy (MS) tests have been performed on a high nitrogen (0.8 wt %) austenitic steel (HNS) with resonance frequencies in the range of kHz. Two sets of samples have been examined: the first set in an as-prepared condition, the second...

  • Article
  • Open Access
5 Citations
4,672 Views
15 Pages

Investigation of Dendrite Coarsening in Complex Shaped Lamellar Graphite Iron Castings

  • Péter Svidró,
  • Attila Diószegi,
  • Mohsen Saffari Pour and
  • Pär Jönsson

1 July 2017

Shrinkage porosity and metal expansion penetration are two casting defects that appear frequently during the production of complex-shaped lamellar graphite iron components. These casting defects are formed during the solidification and usually form i...

  • Article
  • Open Access
6 Citations
4,384 Views
11 Pages

1 July 2017

Enhanced cell adherence to the surface of nanocrystallized commercially pure titanium (CP–Ti) was observed by several authors. However, the understanding of the surface modification of Ti in a physiological solution due to nanocrystallized grain size...

  • Article
  • Open Access
17 Citations
6,244 Views
21 Pages

30 June 2017

In many rotating machinery applications, such as helicopters, the splines of an externally-splined steel shaft that emerges from the gearbox engage with the reverse geometry of an internally splined driven shaft for the delivery of power. The splined...

  • Article
  • Open Access
6 Citations
4,459 Views
20 Pages

30 June 2017

Microarc oxidation (MAO) coatings were prepared on 2024-T4 aluminum alloys using a pulsed bipolar power supply at different anode pulse-widths. After the MAO coatings were formed, the micropores and microcracks on the surface of the MAO coatings were...

  • Article
  • Open Access
37 Citations
6,982 Views
16 Pages

29 June 2017

Nowadays, a wide range of materials is used for car body structures in order to improve both the passengers’ safety and fuel consumption. These are joined by laser welding and solid state fiber lasers being used more and more in present. The article...

  • Feature Paper
  • Article
  • Open Access
16 Citations
5,623 Views
10 Pages

29 June 2017

In the present work, the cumulative effect of strength enhancer Lanthanum (La) and ductility enhancer Cerium (Ce) on the mechanical response of pure Mg was investigated. A ternary Mg-4La-0.4Ce alloy was developed using a disintegrated melt deposition...

  • Article
  • Open Access
7 Citations
5,010 Views
11 Pages

Morphology and Crystallography of Ausferrite in Austempered Ductile Iron

  • Chengduo Wang,
  • Xueshan Du,
  • Songjie Li,
  • Yufu Sun and
  • Peixu Yang

29 June 2017

The microstructure of austempered ductile iron was investigated by electron backscatter diffraction technique. The results show that the orientation relationship between acicular bainitic ferrite and austenite is Greninger–Troiano relationship. A sin...

  • Article
  • Open Access
14 Citations
5,019 Views
12 Pages

29 June 2017

A new method for the separation, pre-concentration and accurate determination of trace amounts of Pb and Cd in water samples using Amberlite XAD-16 resin functionalized with a new chelating ligand, 3-(2-hydroxyphenyl)-1H-1,2,4-triazole-5(4H)-thione (...

  • Article
  • Open Access
15 Citations
5,469 Views
10 Pages

Leaching Kinetics of Hemimorphite in Ammonium Chloride Solution

  • Duoqiang Zhao,
  • Shenghai Yang,
  • Yongming Chen,
  • Chaobo Tang,
  • Jing He and
  • Hao Li

28 June 2017

The leaching kinetics of hemimorphite (Zn4Si2O7(OH)2·H2O) in ammonium chloride solution was presented in detail. Effects of stirring speed (150–350 rpm), leaching temperature (75–108 °C), particle size of hemimorphite (45–150 μm), and the concentrati...

  • Feature Paper
  • Article
  • Open Access
38 Citations
10,671 Views
11 Pages

Effect of Ausforming Temperature on the Microstructure of G91 Steel

  • Javier Vivas,
  • Carlos Capdevila,
  • José Antonio Jimenez,
  • Miguel Benito-Alfonso and
  • David San-Martin

27 June 2017

The development of thermomechanical treatments (TMT) has a high potential for improving creep-strength in 9Cr-1Mo ferritic/martensitic steel (ASTM T/P91) to operate at temperatures beyond 600 °C. To maximize the number of nanoscale MX precipitates, a...

  • Article
  • Open Access
8 Citations
6,062 Views
18 Pages

26 June 2017

Semisolid slurry of A356 aluminum alloy was prepared by Self-Inoculation Method, and the secondary solidification behavior during rheo-diecasting forming process was researched. The results indicate that the component with non-dendritic and uniformly...

  • Feature Paper
  • Article
  • Open Access
15 Citations
5,436 Views
8 Pages

The Nitrocarburising Response of Low Temperature Bainite Steel

  • Daniel Fabijanic,
  • Ilana Timokhina,
  • Hossein Beladi and
  • Peter Hodgson

26 June 2017

The nitrocarburising response of low transformation temperature ultrafine and nanoscale bainitic steel was investigated and compared with martensite and pearlite from the same steel composition. It was found that the retained austenite content of the...

  • Article
  • Open Access
7 Citations
6,952 Views
19 Pages

26 June 2017

The various U-geometry parameters in the U-bending process result in processing difficulties in the control of the spring-back characteristic. In this study, the effects of U-geometry parameters, including channel width, bend angle, material thicknes...

  • Article
  • Open Access
12 Citations
5,732 Views
14 Pages

Electrochemical Behaviour of PACVD TiN-Coated CoCrMo Medical Alloy

  • Suzana Jakovljević,
  • Vesna Alar and
  • Antonio Ivanković

23 June 2017

CoCrMo alloys have been used in hip replacements for many years, and their properties can be enhanced with hard coatings. The TiN layer can be deposited on a CoCrMo alloy to its improve corrosion properties, such as reduction of the release of potent...

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