This study investigates the effect of electrolytic-plasma hardening (EPH) on the structure, phase composition, and tribological properties of the low-alloy steels 20Cr2Ni4A and 37Cr4 (1.7034) (EN). Hardening was carried out at a voltage of 320 V for...
The application of incremental processes in the manufacturing industry is having a great development in recent years. The first stage of an Incremental Forming Process can be defined as an indentation. Because of this, the indentation process is star...
Indentation tests were used for early detection of deformation-induced damage of Inconel 718. Damage was produced in a controlled manner using specially designed specimens with a variable width of the gage part. Static tension, LCF, and HCF tests wer...
In this work, the single-event burnout (SEB) effect and degradation behaviors induced by heavy-ion irradiation are investigated in a 120 V-rated transverse split-gate trench (TSGT) power metal-oxide-semiconductor field-effect transistor (MOSFET). Bis...
Temperature and strain rate have significant effects on the mechanical behavior of SiC/Al 2009 composites. This research aimed to precisely model the thermal and strain rate effect on the strain hardening behavior of SiC/Al composite using the artifi...
316L stainless steel is often used as the metal bipolar plate, which is a key component of fuel cells. For the thinner metal bipolar plates, the mechanical properties may be different for different specimen sizes. In this paper, the mechanical proper...
In this paper, we present the effect of austenitizing temperature on the work hardening behavior of air-hardening steel LH800 by evaluating the influence of austenitizing temperature on microstructure evolution and mechanical properties, using Hollom...
This study uses a sigmoidal function to describe the plastic strain hardening of metallic materials, considering temperature and strain rate effects. The effectiveness of this approach is evaluated and systematically compared with other hardening law...
Because the mechanical performance of precipitation-hardened alloys can be significantly altered with temperature changes, understanding and predicting the effects of temperatures on various mechanical properties for these alloys are important. In th...
Cold-formed steel channel beam components are increasingly used in lightweight steel buildings owing to the high strength–weight ratio. However, the influence of cold working processes, in relation to corner regions, and how this impacts the be...
The contact between a rigid flat and a coated asperity is studied using the finite element method. The substrate is assumed as the power-law hardening elastic–plastic material. The effect of the hardening exponent of the substrate (n) on the co...
The single-event effects (SEEs) of frequency divider circuits and the radiation tolerance of the hardened circuit are studied in this paper. Based on the experimental results of SEEs in InP HBTs, a transient current model for sensitive transistors is...
Waterlogging induces oxidative damage by accumulation of reactive oxygen species due to stomatal closure. Plants alter their physiological and molecular mechanisms to reduce and adapt to oxidative stress. This mechanism of adaptation to stress, known...
This study systematically investigates the laser surface hardening (LSH) behavior of two medium carbon steels—the low alloy 42CrMo4 and the plain carbon C45—using a 4 kW high power diode laser (HPDL). The influence of laser parameters (po...
Ferritic/martensitic (F/M) steel is a candidate material for key structures in fourth-generation nuclear energy systems (such as fusion reactors and fast reactors). Irradiation hardening behavior is a core index to evaluate the material’s stabl...
Owing to the continuous increasing of steel strength, mechanical properties including toughness and fatigue performance are becoming increasingly sensitive to inclusions in ultra-high strength steel. Rare-earth treatment is considered as an effective...
Plastic deformation during the manufacture process of electric resistance welded (ERW) pipe determines the stress–strain relationship of the steel pipe, which affects the collapse pressure of offshore pipelines. To track the deformation history...
In the past, most researchers have explained the three-stage creep behavior of asphalt mixture in detail. Still, there is no reasonable model to describe the creep of the consolidation effect. To accurately describe the consolidation effect of an asp...
The consideration of plastic crack tip opening displacement (CTOD, δp), as a crack driving force has given us the opportunity to predict fatigue crack growth (FCG) rate numerically, and, therefore, to develop parametric studies focused on the e...
The prediction of the low-velocity collision response of a plate has substantial engineering significance. This paper presents a study to predict the low-velocity collision response characterization of a plate considering the strain hardening effect...
Calcium phosphate cements are used in dentistry and orthopedics to repair and reconstruct bone defects. The properties of these bone cements can be improved by introducing additives into their composition. One favorable additive is chitosan, which ca...
The homogeneity of dispersion and reinforcing of pure aluminium by multi-walled carbon nanotubes (MWCNT) through the application of a high speed sonication (340 Hz) assisted by ultrasonication (35 kHz) was evaluated, this method was termed “assisted...
As part of a comprehensive study on eco-friendly processing techniques, the influence of the heat treatment environment on the case hardening of AISI 1018 steel using pulverized cassava leaf was studied. The process was carried out at two different t...
Grind-hardening machining is a new integrated manufacturing technology that integrates the theory of material surface quenching and grinding machining. The surface integrity of grind-hardening directly affects the performance and reliability of the p...
Micro-milling is a promising technology for micro-manufacturing of high-tech components. A deep understanding of the micro-milling process is necessary since a simple downscaling from conventional milling is impossible. In this study, the effect of t...
Sodium silicate-activated slags have the potential to harden quickly, which limits their practical use in grouting and deep soil mixing works. The open time of grouts is defined as the time period when their rheological properties allow their storage...
Calcium sulphoaluminate cement (CSA) has the characteristics of quick hardening, high early strength and high impermeability, however its strength growth persistence in the middle and late stages (after the age of 3 days) is poor. In order to improve...
The contact behaviour between an ellipsoid and a rigid plane is significant in research on bearing and assembly joint surfaces. However, an empirical relationship between an elastic–plastic ellipsoid and a rigid plane has not been established....
In this study, we investigated the effect of grain size of an initial microstructure (pearlite + ferrite) on a resulting microstructure of induction-hardened microalloyed steel 38MnVS6, which is one topical medium carbon vanadium microalloyed non-que...
Bake hardening (BH) is a vital part of special steel production. Studies in this field have focused on steels under homogeneous yielding, but until now, none have been conducted on the phenomena that occur for steels under heterogeneous yielding. In...
Modern energetic materials (EMs) have many different civil applications. One of their most promising applications in civil engineering is explosive hardening, which facilitates the fast and cost-effective improvement of mechanical properties in the t...
This study develops an analytical model for the plastic bending of anisotropic sheet materials, incorporating strain-hardening effects. The model, experimentally validated with aluminum alloy samples and digital image correlation, accurately predicts...
The study presents the effect of annealing process parameters on the microstructure, hardness, and strain-hardening coefficients, that is, the strength coefficient c and the strain-hardening exponent n, of 42CrMo4 steel. Seven selected annealing time...
The effect of high-temperature deformation twinning on the work hardening behaviors of Fe-38Mn alloy during hot shear-compression deformation was investigated. The discovery of micro-shear bands and deformation twinning is significant for continuous...
This study investigated the effects of shrinkage compensation on the tensile and cracking responses of strain-hardening cement composite (SHCC) by adding calcium sulfoaluminate (CSA)-based expansive additive (EXA) to the mixture. Such responses are c...
As a new type of energetic material, reactive materials are widely used at present; in particular, the metal/polymer mixtures type reactive materials show great advantages in engineering applications. This type of reactive material has good mechanica...
An amount of 100 dpa Si2+ irradiation was used to study the effect of transmutation rhenium content on irradiated microscopic defects and hardening in W-xRe (x = 0, 1, 3, 5 and 10 wt.%) alloys at 550 °C. The increase in Re content could significa...
So-called strength-ductility trade-off is usually an inevitable scenario in precipitation-strengthened alloys. To address this challenge, high-density coherent nanoprecipitates (CNPs) as a microstructure effectively promote ductility though multiple...
This study investigates the effect of electrolytic-plasma hardening time on the microstructure formation, hardness distribution, and corrosion behavior of grade 45 structural steel. The treatment was performed in a 15% aqueous sodium carbonate (Na2CO...
The quantitative characterization of the microstructure evolution in high-Mn steel during deformation is of great importance to understanding its strain-hardening behavior. In the current study, in situ high-energy synchrotron X-ray diffraction was e...
The effect of the computational model and mesh strategy on the springback prediction of the thin sandwich material made of micro-alloyed steel was investigated in this paper. To verify the chosen computational strategy, a comparison of the experiment...
This study systematically investigates the synergistic effects of Cu addition (0–0.7 wt.%) and 2% pre-straining on the artificial aging, natural aging (NA), and bake-hardening response (BHR) of AA6111 alloy. The results reveal that Cu significa...
The increasing application of aluminum alloy, in combination with the growth in the complexity of components, provides new challenges for the numerical modeling of sheet materials. The material elastic–plasticity constitutive model is the most...
In this paper, the strain rate dependence of hardening behavior of polycrystalline pseudoelastic (PE) and shape memory effect (SME) TiNi alloy under impact loading was investigated by experiments. Measurements of stress–strain curves, hardening...
Understanding the microstructure–property relationship in aluminum extrusions is crucial to leverage their potential in automotive lightweighting. The sensitivity of the processing history to the microstructure and through-thickness variations...
The existing knowledge about the effect of neutron irradiation on the mechanical properties of reactor pressure vessel steels under reactor service conditions relies to a large extent on accelerated irradiations realized by exposing steel samples to...
The crack tip strain and stress condition are one of the main factors affecting stress corrosion cracking (SCC) behaviors in the dissimilar metal welded joint of the primary circuit in the pressurized water reactor. The mechanical property mismatch o...
In this paper, the effects of different tempering temperatures on a recently developed ultrahigh-strength steel with 0.4 wt.% carbon content were studied. The steel is designed to be used in press-hardening for different wear applications, which requ...
Wire rope isolator (WRI) devices are widely used in vibration reduction industrial equipment, and stiffness is the key parameter that determines isolation effectiveness. WRI devices show slight nonlinearity under small loads, and the manufacturers ge...
Very limited information is available on the drought tolerance of European beech and silver fir in mixed cultivation, both for mature forests and natural regeneration. Particularly, little information is available regarding the significance on memory...
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