Degradation models are central to the lifetime prediction of electromagnetic relays. Coefficients of degradation models under accelerated degradation test (ADTs) can be obtained experimentally, and it is customary to map these coefficients back to th...
A mathematical model for estimating the characteristics of the process of thermal inactivation of vegetative bacterial cells and their spores is presented. The model relates the change rate of the number of living cells as a nonlinear kinetic depende...
Degradation models are commonly used to describe the generation of combustible gases when predicting fire behavior. A model may include many sub-models, such as heat and mass transfer models, pyrolysis models or mechanical models. The pyrolysis sub-m...
A variety of current experiments and molecular dynamics computations are expanding our understanding of rate processes occurring in extreme environments, especially at low temperatures, where deviations from linearity of Arrhenius plots are revealed....
25CrMo4 steel is widely used in the manufacturing of high-speed train axles due to its excellent mechanical properties. The purpose of this study is to develop an accurate modified constitutive model to describe the hot deformation behavior of the st...
To realize the purpose of energy saving, materials with high weight are replaced by low-weight materials with eligible mechanical properties in all kinds of fields. Therefore, conducting research works on lightweight materials under specified work co...
A precise constitutive model is essential for capturing the deformation characteristics of the GH4169 superalloy in numerical simulations of thermal plastic forming processes. Hence, the aim of this study was to develop a precise modified constitutiv...
Ozawa has modified the Avrami model to treat non-isothermal crystallization kinetics. The resulting Ozawa–Avrami model yields the Avrami index (n) and heating/cooling function (χ(T)). There has been a number of recent applications of the Oz...
Thermo-oxidative stability testing plays a critical role in accurately predicting shelf life. These tests are performed in real time and under stress conditions, where degradation processes are accelerated by increasing storage conditions. In this st...
A mathematical model based on power law kinetics was selected to simulate the hydrotreating process of diesel fuel (also called diesel oil or diesel), assuming hydrogenation reactions of sulfur compounds, nitrogen compounds, aromatic compounds, and o...
The Arrhenius crossover temperature, TA, corresponds to a thermodynamic state wherein the atomistic dynamics of a liquid becomes heterogeneous and cooperative; and the activation barrier of diffusion dynamics becomes temperature-dependent at temperat...
A discharge-flow reactor combined with modulated molecular beam mass spectrometry technique was employed to determine the rate constants of H-atom reactions with hydrogen sulfide and thiirane. The rate constants for both reactions were determined at...
Titanium alloys are extensively employed in the fabrication of various aviation structural parts, of which the most crucial processing step is hot working. In order to study the high-temperature deformation behavior of the TC21 titanium alloy, high-t...
The Transitivity function, defined in terms of the reciprocal of the apparent activation energy, measures the propensity for a reaction to proceed and can provide a tool for implementing phenomenological kinetic models. Applications to systems which...
A low-voltage circuit breaker thermal trip plays a role in power systems, including opening and closing, control, protection, and more. Their reliability directly affects the security and stability of the power distribution system. The Wiener process...
Protein unfolding is a ubiquitous process responsible for the loss of protein functionality (denaturation), which, in turn, can be accompanied by the death of cells and organisms. The nature of enthalpy–entropy compensation (EEC) in the kinetic...
Polymers are widely used in various industries because of their characteristics such as elasticity, abrasion resistance, fatigue resistance and low temperature. In particular, the tensile characteristic of rubber composites is important for the stabi...
In oncology, hyperthermia is understood as a planned, controlled technique of heating cancerous changes in order to destroy their cells or stop their growth. In clinical practice, hyperthermia is used in combination with radiotherapy, chemotherapy, o...
The lifetime of ultraviolet high-power light-emitting diodes (UV HP-LEDs) is an open issue due to their high current density, high temperature, and UV radiation. This work presents a reliability study and failure analysis of three high-temperature ac...
In this paper, the rate coefficients (k) and activation energies (Ea) for SiCl4, SiHCl3, and Si(CH3)2(CH2Cl)Cl molecules in the gas phase were measured using the pulsed Townsend technique. The experiment was performed in the temperature range of 298–...
Correlations have been found for the base value of hardness (as the ratio between the heat of fusion and molar volume) and the softening temperature (as the ratio of heat of fusion and specific heat capacity). The relative change of bulk hardness as...
Water dynamics in nanochannels are altered by confinement, particularly in small carbon nanotubes (CNTs). However, the mechanisms behind these effects remain unclear. To address these issues, we carried out extensive molecular dynamics (MD) simulatio...
The present review is related to the studies of structural changes observed in metallic glass-forming liquids on cooling and subsequent vitrification in terms of radial distribution function and its analogues. These structural changes are discussed i...
Decomposition mechanisms, activation barriers, Arrhenius parameters, and reaction kinetics of the novel explosive compounds, 3,4-bis(4-nitro-1,2,5-oxadiazol-3-yl)-1,2,5-oxadiazole (BNFF-1), and 3-(4-amino-1,2,5-oxadiazol-3-yl)-4-(4-nitro-1,2,5-oxadia...
Pyrolysis of waste low-density polyethylene (LDPE) is considered to be a highly efficient, promising treatment method. This work aims to investigate the kinetics of LDPE pyrolysis using three model-free methods (Friedman, Flynn-Wall-Qzawa (FWO), and...
The present paper studies the degradation of an ethylene propylene diene monomer (EPDM) due to aging within an environment resembling the conditions inside the turbine stage of an electrically assisted turbocharger for fuel cell applications, with a...
The development of offshore wind farms requires robust bonding solutions that can withstand harsh marine conditions for the easy integration of secondary structures. This paper investigates the durability performance of two adhesives: Sikadur 30 epox...
In the polyurethane industry, catalytically generated carbodiimides can modify the properties of isocyanate and, thus, the resulting foams. In this work, a kinetic reaction study was carried out to investigate the formation of a simple, bifunctional...
This work presents a comprehensive model for lignocellulosic biomass pyrolysis, addressing kinetics, energy balances, and gas product composition with the aim of its application in wood combustion. The model consists of a two-stage global mechanism i...
Alkali tantalates are encouraging functional materials with versatile properties that make them potential players in microelectronics, photocatalytic processes or medicine. Here, KTaO3 single crystals with 0.27% Li and 0.15% or 0.31% Mn contents dete...
The present study gives a remedy for the malign tissues, cells, or clogged arteries of the heart by means of permeating a slim tube (i.e., catheter) in the body. The tiny size gold particles drift in free space of catheters having flexible walls with...
Composite solid electrolytes (1 − x)CsNO2-xND, where ND are nanodiamonds, including those after liquid-phase and gas-phase oxidation and reduction functionalization, were prepared, and their properties investigated by XRD, analysis of BET nitrogen ad...
The Diels–Alder (D–A) reaction between furan and maleimide is a thermally reversible reaction that has become a vital chemical technique for designing polymer structures and functions. The kinetics of this reaction, particularly in polyme...
We hereby present a novel “grafting-to”-like approach for the covalent attachment of plasmonic nanoparticles (PNPs) onto whispering gallery mode (WGM) silica microresonators. Mechanically stable optoplasmonic microresonators were employed...
This article theoretically investigates the interaction of a normal shock wave in a flow with chemical reactions under high-temperature conditions. The main novelty of the work is that the thermal effect of chemical reactions is modeled as a function...
A porous nanostructured film of flame-formed carbon nanoparticles has been produced with a one-step procedure. The morphological and structural characteristics of the film have been characterized by atomic force microscopy and Raman spectroscopy. The...
We present a dielectric spectroscopy study of dipolar dynamics in the hydrated UiO-66(Zr) type metal-organic frameworks (MOFs) functionalized with −NH2 and −F groups. Experiments are performed in a broad temperature and frequency ranges a...
The hot deformation behavior of nano-SiCp/Al-Si composites was studied by isothermal compression tests at 470–530 °C and strain rates of 0.01–5 s−1. A strain-compensation constitutive model was developed with a Z parameter and a...
Avocado is a highly potential functional fruit with significant health benefits which has high demand for consumption with a preferable taste. The fruit is one of the oil sources that still needs further examination on its probable kinetic behavior a...
Ni-based superalloys are widely used in aerospace applications. However, traditional constitutive equations often lack the necessary accuracy to predict their high-temperature behavior. A novel constitutive model, utilizing Taylor series expansions a...
The versatile AC magnetic susceptibility technique offers a detailed insight into the complex electrodynamic phenomena in superconductors. In the present study, we outline the key effects related to the temperature, AC field amplitude and frequency v...
Formation of Ta5Si3 by self-propagating high-temperature synthesis (SHS) from elemental powder compacts of Ta:Si = 5:3 was experimentally and numerically studied. Experimental evidence showed that the increase of either sample density or preheating t...
A glucose biosensor was utilized as a platform for the time-temperature integrator (TTI), a device for intelligent food packaging. The TTI system is composed of glucose oxidase, glucose, a pH indicator, and a three-electrode potentiostat, which produ...
Efficient charge transport has been observed in iodine-doped, iodide-based room-temperature ionic liquids, yielding high ionic conductivity. To elucidate preferred mechanistic pathways for the iodide ( I − )-to-triiodide ( I 3 &minu...
Viscoelastic relaxation measurements on styrene-butadiene rubbers (SBRs) doped with carbon nanotube (CNT) at different concentrations around the sol-gel transition show the time–temperature superposition (TTS). This process is described in term...
In this work, we explored a highly robust and unique Physical Unclonable Function (PUF) based on the stochastic assembly of single-walled Carbon NanoTubes (CNTs) integrated within a wafer-level technology. Our work demonstrated that the proposed CNT-...
Anthocyanins are colored valuable biocompounds, of which extraction increases globally, although functional applications are restrained by their limited environmental stability. Temperature is a critical parameter of food industrial processing that i...
The lifetime of the battery significantly influences the acceptance of electric vehicles. Calendar aging contributes to the limited operating lifetime of lithium-ion batteries. Therefore, its consideration in addition to cyclical aging is essential t...
As the research on hybrid rocket motors advances, more accurate tools are needed to estimate the performance of the system by determining its fundamental parameters. One of them is certainly the regression rate of the solid fuel. Unfortunately, it de...
Temperature plays a fundamental role in biology, influencing cellular function, chemical reaction rates, molecular structures, and interactions. While the temperature dependence of many biochemical reactions is well defined in vitro, the effect of te...
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