This study evaluated the effects of pretreatments (blanching (60 and 95 °C) and boiling) and drying methods (freeze-drying and oven drying) on the quality characteristics of potato flour derived from three potato varieties, namely, Shangi, Unica,...
A solidification microstructure is formed under high cooling rates and temperature gradients in powder-based additive manufacturing. In this study, a non-equilibrium multi-phase field method (MPFM), based on a finite interface dissipation model, coup...
Tube/Pipe (TP) 304 stainless steel has been widely used in industry, but a change in its microstructures may endanger its service safety, and it is essential to evaluate its microstructural evolution. In this work, a pulse-echo nonlinear method is pr...
Silicon, as the most abundant element in the earth’s crust and the most common material used in electronic and optical equipment, has attracted the attention of many individuals to change the properties of this material, improving its electronic and...
Microstructure is one of the vital factors that determine the mechanical properties of magnesium (Mg) alloys. However, traditional microstructure characterization methods hardly satisfy the needs of tracking the morphological evolution of Mg alloys....
This paper established a microstructure-related hardness model of a polycrystalline Ni-based superalloy GH4720Li, and the sizes and area fractions of γ’ precipitates were extracted from scanning electron microscope (SEM) images using a de...
Wire arc additive manufacturing achieves high efficiency and low costs by using a melting wire for directional depositions. Thermal analyses and the finite element method have been applied to predict residual stress and the deformation of fabricated...
Rotary friction welding is one of the most crucial techniques for joining different parts in advanced industries. Experimentally measuring the history of thermomechanical and microstructural parameters of this process can be a significant challenge a...
Microstructure simulations of continuous casting billets are vital for understanding solidification mechanisms and optimizing process parameters. However, the commonly used CA (Cellular Automaton) model is limited by grid anisotropy, which affects th...
Permeability is a fundamental property of porous media. It quantifies the ease with which a fluid can flow under the effect of a pressure gradient in a network of connected pores. Porous materials can be natural, such as soil and rocks, or synthetic,...
To provide recommendations to users regarding which thawing method for frozen instant sea cucumbers entails lower quality losses, in this study we compared the water retention, mechanical properties, protein properties, and microstructures of frozen...
Precipitation is one of the most important influences on microstructural evolution during thermomechanical processing (TMCP) of micro-alloyed steels. Due to precipitation, pinning of prior austenite grain (PAG) boundaries can occur. To understand the...
Cemented carbides, or hard metals, are ceramic–metal composites usually consisting of tungsten carbide particles bound by a cobalt-based alloy. They are the backbone materials for the tooling industry, as a direct consequence of the outstanding...
Hydrogen energy is vital for a clean, low-carbon society, and proton exchange membrane fuel cells (PEMFCs) represent a core technology for the conversion of hydrogen chemical energy into electrical energy. When PEMFC single cells are stacked under as...
Natural polysaccharides with high viscosity, good thermal stability, and biocompatibility can improve the mechanical properties of inorganic silica aerogels and enhance their application safety. However, the effects of the preparation methods of poly...
In order to study internal relation among the behavior of the weld pool, the microstructure of weld bead and the waveform of short-circuiting gas metal arc welding (S-GMAW), a high speed photograph-images analysis system was formed to extract charact...
The high topological silicon carbide (SiC) ceramics can be prepared by stereolithography (SLA) combined with liquid silicon infiltration (LSI) techniques. This paper aims to enhance the performance of SiC ceramics prepared by SLA and LSI techniques v...
High dense (>99% density) SiC ceramics were produced with addition of C and B4C by spark plasma sintering method at 1950 °C under 50 MPa applied pressure for 5 min. To remove the oxygen from the SiC, it was essential to add C. Two different mi...
Recent years have witnessed a growing research interest in graphene-reinforced alumina matrix composites (Al2O3-G). In this paper, to better achieve the dispersion of graphene in composites, a ball milling method for adding raw materials step by step...
Laser cladded WC/Fe coatings have the advantages of low cost and high abrasion wear resistance. However, cracks always appear in WC/Fe coatings, which limits their industrial application. In this paper, the co-effects of the re-melting process, heat...
In this study, an innovative internal oxidation-powder metallurgy combined process was employed to controllably generate nano-sized Cr2O3 reinforcing phases within the Cu matrix. The Cu/Cr2O3 composites were successfully fabricated using the hot-pres...
This study investigated four cooling methods for CuCrFeMnNi high-entropy alloy, namely, furnace cooling, air cooling, oil cooling, and water cooling (designated as FC, AC, OC, and WC, respectively), following a 12 h treatment at 800 °C. Results i...
The present study focused on 10 wt.% TiB2@Ti/AlCoCrFeNi2.1 eutectic high-entropy alloy matrix composites (EHEAMCs), which were treated with furnace cooling (FC), air cooling (AC), and water cooling (WC) after being held at 1000 °C for 12 h, aimin...
Double-pulsed gas metal arc welding (DP-GMAW) is a high-performance welding method with low porosity and high frequency. Periodic shrinkage and expansion of the melt pool during DP-GMAW leads to unusual remelting, and the re-solidification behavior o...
Severe erosion wear is found on valve spools, which threatens the safety and reliability of these units. The use of the plasma beam spraying surfacing method can significantly improve the corrosion resistance and sealing performance of hydraulic valv...
Magnesium (Mg) and its alloys are considered an ideal material for aerospace, medical, energy, and automotive purposes, because of their low density and high specific strength. Researchers are interested in AZ alloys because of their superior flow ch...
Floccularia luteovirens (F. luteovirens) has garnered increasing attention as an ingredient in both the pharmaceutical and food industries. Depending on the drying method, the accumulation of metabolites can greatly affect the quality. This research...
This experimental study investigates the effects of conventional and non-conventional (Electrical Discharge Machining, EDM) techniques on the performance of threading dies fabricated from H13 die steel. The research focuses on variations in material...
In this study, the effects of pseudo-ternary oxides on mechanical properties and microstructure of 316L stainless steel tungsten inert gas (TIG) and activating tungsten inert gas (ATIG) welded joints were investigated. The novelty in this work is int...
The experimentally obtained material microstructure can be used to calculate a material’s properties and identify microstructure–property relationships. The key procedure to enable this is to interpret the observed microstructure accurate...
Dacian civilization flourished on the actual territory of Romania during the Late Iron Age and had its peak from the first century BC to the first century AD. They had intensive relations with Hellenistic and Roman civilizations. Therefore, it is dif...
The present study investigates the effect of two parameters of process type and tool offset on tensile, microhardness, and microstructure properties of AA6061-T6 aluminum alloy joints. Three methods of Friction Stir Welding (FSW), Advancing Parallel-...
Although glueing softwood is well mastered by the industry, predicting and controlling bond quality for hardwood is still challenging after years of research. Parameters such as the adhesive type, resin–hardener ratio, and the penetration behav...
Laser-based plastic–metal joints have high potential to enable cost-efficient lightweight structures in multi-material design. By an appropriate load-optimized positioning of the microstructure on the joining zone, cost- and strength-optimized...
In the present study, the gas tungsten arc welding wire feed additive manufacturing process is simulated and its final microstructure predicted by microstructural modelling, which is validated by microstructural characterization. The Finite Element M...
Hybrid lattice compliant mechanisms (HLCMs) composed of multiple microstructures have attracted widespread interest due to their superior compliant performance compared to the traditional solid compliant mechanisms. A novel optimization scheme for HL...
This polymer microstructure expands more available application, which is a milestone for the development of micro-electro-mechanical system devices towards intelligence and multifunction. Poor interface bonding between the polymer and Si or metal is...
Soil improvement is one of the fundamental practices in civil engineering, with a long-standing history. In today’s context, the rapidly increasing demand for construction driven by urbanization has further emphasized the necessity and signific...
In this study, the influence of different fire conditions on tempered 32CrB3 steel bolts of Grade 8.8 was investigated. In this research different temperatures, heating time, and cooling methods were correlated with the microstructure, hardness, and...
The simulation of solidification microstructures of cast alloys is crucial to the integrated “process–microstructure–property” numerical simulation. In order to verify the accuracy of the solidification microstructure simulati...
This study presents the investigation on how heat treatment parameters, which are temperature, cooling method, and residence time, influence the microstructural and hardness properties of Ti6Al4V components produced on Ti6Al4V substrate using high sp...
This work presents a microstructure-informed pathway for assigning a material symmetry class to distinguish between tensor components and scalar effective thermal conductivity (ETC) values derived from directional measurements. The framework combines...
There is a growing interest in laser melting processes, e.g., for metal additive manufacturing. Modelling and numerical simulation can help to understand and control microstructure evolution in these processes. However, standard methods of microstruc...
The microstructure of cement paste is governed by the hydration of its major component, tricalcium silicate (C3S). Quantitative analysis of C3S microstructural images is critical for elucidating the microstructure-property correlation in cementitious...
This study investigated the effects of different drying methods on the drying characteristics, three-dimensional (3D) appearance, color, total polysaccharide content (TPC), antioxidant activity, and microstructure of Pleurotus eryngii slices. The dry...
In this paper, we deal with the issue of asphalt concrete microstructure recognition for further numerical analysis. An efficient reconstruction of the underlying microstructure makes the composite analysis more reliable. We propose for this purpose...
It is well established that the microstructure has significant effects on the properties of axial braided C/C composites. In this study, a method coupling the homogenization method and finite element method (FEM) was proposed to predict the relations...
The comminution at the grain size level for liberating the valuable minerals usually requires the highest size-specific energy. Therefore, a full understanding of the comminution process at this level is essential. Models based on the Discrete Elemen...
This paper focuses on the microstructural characteristics of non-alloy structural steels with carbon contents below 0.3% (further—Low-Carbon Steel—LCS), as well as the possible structural transformations and the resultant mechanical prope...
In this paper, we present an enhanced framework for the synthetic asphalt concrete (AC) microstructure generation for the numerical analysis purposes. It is based on the Voronoi tessellation concept with some necessary extensions that allow for the r...
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