Metals, Volume 9, Issue 8

This study proposes a cleaner lead-acid battery (LAB) paste and pyrite cinder (PyC) recycling method without excessive generation of SO2. PyCs were employed as sulfur-fixing reagents to conserve sulfur as condensed sulfides, which prevented SO2 emiss...

The surface of bainitic steel was remelted by fiber laser, and the microstructure and mechanical properties of the melted layer were studied by scanning electron microscopy (SEM), transmission electron microscopy (TEM), a nanoindentation instrument,...

Fracture, fatigue, and other subcritical processes, such as creep crack growth or stress corrosion cracking, present numerous open issues from both scientific and industrial points of view [...]

Frequency is an important factor influencing the fatigue behavior. Regarding to the dwell fatigue, it corresponds to the effect of rise and fall time, which is also an important issue especially for the safety evaluation of structure parts under dwel...

The increasing demand for advanced materials in construction, transportation, communications, medicine, energy production, as well as in several other fields, is the driving force for investigating the processing–structure–property relati...

The 450 °C isothermal sections of the Fe-Si-Sn-Zn quaternary system with Zn composition fixed at 70 and 93 at.% were determined experimentally using optical microscopy, scanning electronic microscopy coupled with energy dispersive X-ray spectrosc...

Alloy carbide M23C6 plays a significant role in the creep strength of reduced activation steels. Experiments have proven that a magnetic field accelerates the precipitation of M23C6 at intermediate temperature. A scheme that combines first-principle...

Vibropeening is a surface treatment process, which combines the peening effect of introducing residual stress with the polishing effect of reducing surface roughness in one single process step. Vibropeening equipment induces vibrations into the media...

In this study, the effect of heat treatment on the fracture behavior of alloy B steel with boron (B) contents as high as 130 ppm was investigated. The Alloy B are derived from Gr.92 steel with outstanding creep characteristics. The amounts of minor a...

A new plasticity and failure model is developed herein for metallic materials subjected to dynamic loadings on the basis of the analysis of some available material test data and previous work. The new model consists of two parts: a strength model and...