To illustrate how the texture evolution of a polycrystalline aluminum alloy is dependent on the deformation path, hot extruded AA6082 plates in T6 conditions were rolled with various deformation modes. Unidirectional and cross-rolling were conducted...
The effect of cross- or unidirectional rolling on the microstructure, corrosion rate, texture, and hemolysis of the Mg-0.5Zn-0.25Ga and Mg-1.5Zn-0.375Ga alloys was evaluated. After both rolling processes, the microstructure of the as-cast alloys was...
Controlling the microstructure homogeneity is crucial in achieving high quality tantalum (Ta) sputtering targets used in integrated circuit fabrication. Unluckily, traditional rolling easily generates a microstructure gradient along the thickness dir...
Conventional billet rolling is being widely used in magnesium (Mg) alloys products, but this method gives rise to biological and environmental problems. The advantages of the short process on sheet fabrication have been widely proved in Mg alloy twin...
The rare molybdenum resources are being increasingly used in heavy industries. In this study, the common unidirectional and cross hot rolling operations, for pure molybdenum plates, were numerically simulated by using MSC. Marc software. An elastic&n...
This paper presents a modulation scheme in the time domain based on On-Off-Keying and proposes various compatible supports for different types of image sensors. The content of this article is a sub-proposal to the IEEE 802.15.7r1 Task Group (TG7r1) a...
The paper focuses on the fabrication of novel aluminium cellular structures and their metallographic and mechanical characterisation. The aluminium UniPore specimens have been manufactured by rolling a thin aluminium foil with acrylic spacers for the...
In this report, reverse accumulative roll-bonding (ARB) was conducted for the first time. It was found that the microstructure after reverse ARB was relatively coarser than that after unidirectional ARB, and texture intensity was slightly weaker. In...
Aimed at addressing the strong nonlinearity and strong external disturbances that cause flight control issues in conventional guided projectiles, as well as the slow response and structural vibrations that often occur in sliding mode control systems,...
The processing quality of steel bar thread has a large influence on its performance. Using the traditional thread processing technology, it is difficult to meet the requirements of steel bar thread processing with large diameter and high strength. A...
As the share of electric vehicles (EVs) continues to rise, the distribution grid faces the risk of overload. In Germany, the reform of § 14a Energiewirtschaftsgesetz (German Energy Industry Act, EnWG) was introduced to address this problem. The...
The microstructure evolution during the cold rolling and subsequent annealing of Alloy 800H was investigated. Two distinct rolling methods, unidirectional rolling and cross-rolling, were introduced. Cracks were observed in the cross-rolled plates, wh...
High-purity tantalum plates form inhomogeneous microstructures and texture gradients along the thickness through conventional rolling, which seriously affects the sputtering performance of the target. In this work, tantalum plates with a random micro...
Laboratory cyclic plate load tests are commonly used in the assessment of geosynthetic performance in pavement applications due to the repeatability of testing results and the smaller required testing areas than traditional Accelerated Pavement Testi...
Twin-roll casting AZ31 Mg alloy sheets have been fabricated by normal unidirectional-rolling, head-to-tail rolling, and clock-rolling, respectively. It has been demonstrated that head-to-tail rolling is the most effective to refine the microstructure...
Anisotropy is one of the concerns of titanium matrix composites (TMCs) due to its impact on subsequent processing and safe serving. In this work, we demonstrate that simply by using cross-rolling (CR) rather than unidirectional rolling (UDR), signifi...
The plastic anisotropy of rolled Al sheets is the result of a crystallographic texture. It leads to the formation of uneven cup heights during deep-drawing, which is called earing. A new, simple and rapid method had been previously developed by the a...
In order to produce a more isotropic Al-Mg-Si alloy sheet in the T4 temper, pre-annealed AA6016 hot rolled strips were cold rolled by conventional rolling, transverse rolling and an alternative rolling schedule. In this work, a weak and random textur...
We introduce a circle rolling method (CRM) for boundary extraction from 2D point clouds. The core idea is to create a circle that performs pure rolling on the perimeter of the point cloud to obtain the boundary. For a 3D point cloud, a plane adsorbs...
In this study, a laboratory-precision four-high micro-rolling mill was employed to investigate the influence of grain size on the deformation behavior and fracture mechanism of a micro-rolled Cu/Al composite ultra-thin sheet. Analytical testing techn...
The effect of deformation on the evolution of crystallographic texture in a Ti-15V-3Cr-3Sn-3Al (Ti-15333) alloy after unidirectional cold rolling was studied experimentally and numerically in the present investigation. An optical microscope (OM) and...
In the present work, the microstructure and texture evolution of ferritic stainless steel during unidirectional cold rolling were investigated, and the Visco-Plastic Self-Consistent (VPSC) polycrystal model was used for the simulation of texture duri...
The wear resistance of diamond dressing rolls depends on the manufacturing technology used and the characteristics of the working diamond layer, such as the type and grain size of the diamond grains, the type of bond, and the concentration and distri...
Ingestible self-configurable proximity-enabling devices have been developed as a non-invasive platform to improve the bioavailability of drug compounds via swellable or self-unfolding devices. Self-unfolding foils support unidirectional drug release...
Introduction: Improvement of total knee arthroplasty (TKA) materials is one promising approach for extending the lifetime of endoprostheses. The target of this study was to evaluate the sufficiency of TKA-design-independent rolling–sliding screening...
Jute fibers are renewable, light, and strong, allowing them to be considered as attractive materials in composite manufacturing. In the present work, a simple and effective method for preparing continuous pre-preg tapes from short jute fiber bundles...
Aluminum and its alloy magnetron sputtering targets, owing to their superior electrical/thermal conductivity and robust substrate adhesion, serve as critical materials in advanced electronics and information technologies. It is known that the microst...
Ti65 alloy (Ti-5.8Al-4.0Sn-3.5Zr-0.5Mo-0.4Si-0.3Nb-1.0Ta-0.8W-0.05C) is the newly developed high temperature titanium alloy optimized from Ti60 alloys. The long-term service temperature of the alloy is as high as 650 °C, which is unattainable wit...
The crystallographic orientation and texture evolution mechanism of equiaxed Ti60 alloy plates were investigated in this study through plane strain compression tests. The EBSD analysis revealed that the received plate contained two characteristic tex...
This paper discusses a disruptive approach to wave energy conversion, based on a hybrid solution: the E-Motions wave energy converter with integrated triboelectric nanogenerators. To demonstrate it, a physical modelling study was carried out with nin...
In this study, we compare the reinforcing efficiency of pineapple leaf fiber (PALF) and cultivated flax fiber in unidirectional poly(butylene succinate) composites. Flax, known for robust mechanical properties, is contrasted with PALF, a less studied...
Green biodegradable plastics have come into focus as an alternative to restricted plastic products. In this paper, continuous long sisal fiber (SF)/polylactic acid (PLA) premixes were prepared by an extrusion-rolling blending process, and then unidir...
The microstructure and texture distribution of ultra-high purity Cu-0.1Al alloy target play a key role in the quality of the sputtering film. The Cu-0.1Al alloy sheets were processed by unidirectional (UR) and cross rolling (CR), and X-ray diffractio...
The measurement of large forces and the presence of errors due to dimensional coupling are significant challenges for multi-dimensional force sensors. To address these challenges, this paper proposes an over-constrained six-dimensional force sensor b...
Whole-directional scanning methodology is required to observe distinctive features of an entire physical structure with a three dimensional (3D) visualization. However, the implementation of whole-directional scanning is challenging for conventional...
In this article, numerical studies on a tightly moored point absorber type wave energy converter called INWAVE are presented. This system consists of a buoy, subsea pulleys, and a power take off (PTO) module. The buoy is moored by three ropes that pa...
The aim of this study is to evaluate the effect of surface treated multi wall carbon nanotubes (MWCNTs) on compressive properties of the unidirectional (UD) kenaf and hybrid woven glass/UD kenaf fibre reinforced polymer composites. The MWCNTs were fi...
This paper presents an outline of the quest for the mechanical steady state that an unlimited unidirectional plastic strain applied at low to moderate temperature is presumed to develop in single-phase crystalline materials deforming by dislocation g...
Even as human–robot interactions become increasingly common, conventional small Unmanned Aircraft Systems (sUAS), typically multicopters, can still be unsafe for deployment in an indoor environment in close proximity to humans without significa...