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In the present study, new Mg-based bulk metallic glasses have been developed in a Mg-Cu-GdNd based system using a Mg-Nd byproduct obtained from the recycling process of NdFeB magnet scrap through liquid metal extraction. The Mg-Cu-Gd-Nd bulk metallic glasses with a diameter of 2 mm are fabricated by injection casting..... More

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In this study, an eco-friendly pretreatment process was developed to recycle titanium turning scraps and ferro-titanium ingots with low gaseous impurities were prepared using recycled titanium turning scraps. The amount of gaseous impurities of titanium scraps before removing the machining oils on the surface was as high as 20000 ppm...... More

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The repairing parts were fabricated by PBF (powder bed fusion) using direct energy deposition (DED), interfacial cracks can occur at the interface between the substrate and the area to be repaired. Such interfacial defects are due to the thermal stress induced by the temperature gradient which results from repeated melting..... More

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Terbium and dysprosium are rare earth elements which are employed in the manufacture of advanced materials. Separating Tb(III) and Dy(III) is very complicated because their chemical properties are similar. In order to develop a separation process based on solvent extraction, extraction and scrubbing experiments were conducted using weak hydrochloric solutions..... More

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Hydrogen-induced cracking (HIC) behavior was analyzed for gas metal arc (GMA) and laser beam (LB) welds on American Petroleum Institute (API) X65 steel. The GMA welds consisted of acicular ferrite (AF) with some widmanstatten ferrite (WF), while the LB welds had bainitic ferrite (BF) with some AF. The welds and..... More

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In this study, the effects of rolling temperature on the microstructural characteristics of a highspeed-rolled Mg alloy with a non-basal texture were investigated. To this end, commercial AZ31 alloy samples in which the basal poles of most grains were tilted at an angle of 45° from the normal direction (ND)..... More

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An explosively formed penetrator (EFP) is a kind of kinetic energy warhead that contains a metal linear structure. After exploding, the linear structure in the EFP is deformed and hits the target as a form of aero-stable long-rod penetrator. To achieve high penetration performance, Ta is commonly used as the..... More

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In this study, the post-weld heat treatment (PWHT) cracking susceptibility in the heat affected zone (HAZ) of martensitic 10Cr steel was evaluated. The specimens taken from the 10Cr steel were thermally cycled using a Gleeble to simulate HAZ 1 (δ-ferrite) and HAZ 2 (single phase, γ). HAZ 2 had martensite..... More

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Alloy design of 9Cr-1Mo-V-Nb weld metals was carried out through thermodynamic simulation, and elevated temperature tensile testing was performed on the designed alloy. Based on the thermodynamic simulation of the 9Cr-1Mo-V-Nb weld metal, 0.09 to 0.10 wt% C was added to increase Cr-rich M₂₃C₆. Nitrogen was reduced from 0.04 to..... More

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This paper discusses a molybdenum-added alloy design for normalized pressure vessel steels, to reduce hydrogen induced cracking (HIC) and inhibit crack propagation. The change in microstructure produced by the modified alloy composition was analyzed to determine its effect on HIC characteristics. The microstructural change was observed by optical microscopy, hardness..... More

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We demonstrate a synthetic route to high-quality Sn microcrystals using thermal chemical vapor deposition (CVD) in a hydrogen-reducing atmosphere. During thermal CVD with SnO2 powder, a mixture of Ar and H2 (4%) gases was used as a carrier gas to maintain a hydrogen reduction environment. Hydrogen maintained a reduction environment..... More

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A study on shape optimization of a hot-stamped automotive door impact beam for lightweight design and improved crash performance was conducted using a static collision analysis based on FMVSS 214. An integral type one-piece door impact beam of bracket parts and pipe was realized using hot stamping technology. The method..... More

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This study investigated the microstructure and compressive properties (at room & high temperatures) of Fe-Cr-Ni based AISI 316L alloy, manufactured by selective laser melting process. The effect of stress relieving heat treatment on the microstructure and mechanical properties also examined. Regardless of the stress relieving heat treatment, the SLMed AISI..... More

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In this study, we characterize the viscoelastic behavior of polymers using nanoindentation. We applied the indentation representative stress approach and elastic solution to the Maxwell model and determined that there was a linear relationship between the inverses of the initial unloading stiffness and indentation unloading rate. From nanoindentation tests with..... More

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The precipitation characteristics of hydrides in Zr-2.5% Nb pressure tube material were investigated for various hydrogen concentrations and homogenization temperatures. A surface hydride was formed using the electrolytic method and homogenized at various temperatures up to at 550 oC. The homogenization treatment was carried out at 300-550 oC over 240..... More

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In this study, we analyzed the chemical composition of Al-Si cast alloys from microstructural images, using image recognition and machine learning. Binary Al-Si alloys of Si = 1~10 wt% were cast and prepared as reference images in the dataset used for machine learning. The machine learning procedure was constructed with..... More

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In the present work, MgH2 was doped with Zn(BH4)2, Ni, and/or Ti to improve its hydrogen absorption and release features. Samples were prepared by grinding in a planetary ball mill in a hydrogen atmosphere. To increase the hydrogen absorption and release rates without significantly sacrificing hydrogenstorage capacity the additive percentages..... More

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This study investigated and compared the tensile and high-cycle fatigue properties of AISI 1045 steel and Cr electroplated AISI 1045 steel. First, tensile and fatigue specimens were machined from AISI 1045 steel (substrate), and two kinds of Cr electroplating layers with different layer thickness were applied. The substrate, AISI 1045..... More

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Three 304L austenitic stainless steel feedwater heater (FWH) tubes used in pressurized water reactors (PWRs) were investigated in this study. By comparing metallurgical differences, such as microstructural features, micro-hardness, and circumferential residual stress of the failed and non-failed FWH tubes by stress corrosion cracking (SCC), factors which could affect SCC..... More

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Many important material properties of ferroelectric ceramics such as piezoelectric coefficient and hysteresis curve are governed by domain structures and their evolution processes. In the present work, domain wall motions in a near-morphotropic Pb(Zr,Ti)O3 under an external compressive stress were observed using in situ piezoresponse force microscopy (PFM). This specific..... More

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The hot crack resistance and mechanical properties of flux cored arc (FCA) welds were investigated with three kinds of welding consumables having different boron (B) and manganese (Mn) contents for high strength carbon steel. The hot crack resistance, measured from self-restraint testing, strongly depended on the amount of B in..... More

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There are many ongoing efforts to develop sustainable, clean, efficient, and economical pathways to produce renewable energy sources to satisfy worldwide energy demands. Electrochemical conversion processes, such as water splitting, CO2 conversion and N2 electroreduction, have been considered as successful approaches to solve these energy issues. Over the past decade,..... More

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Since catalyst technology is one of the promising technologies to improve the working performance of next generation energy and electronic devices, many efforts have been made to develop various catalysts with high efficiency at a low cost. However, there are remaining challenges to be resolved in order to use the..... More

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A ZnO/TiO2 photocatalyst decorated with PbS quantum dots (QDs) was synthesized to achieve high photocatalytic efficiency for the decomposition of dye in aqueous media. A TiO2 porous layer, as a precursor photocatalyst, was fabricated using micro-arc oxidation, and exhibited irregular porous cells with anatase and rutile crystalline structures. Then, a..... More

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In the present work, we selected a polymer, polyvinylidene fluoride (PVDF), as an additive to improve the hydrogenation and dehydrogenation properties of Mg. 95 wt% Mg + 5 wt% PVDF (designated Mg-5PVDF) samples were prepared via milling in hydrogen atmosphere (reactive milling), and the hydrogenation and dehydrogenation characteristics of the..... More

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To determine the origin of the inhomogeneous microstructure and texture observed in drawn and annealed high purity copper wires, two kinds of drawing process conditions and their influence was investigated. The regular condition, based on a symmetric die, and a condition designed intentionally to produce an inhomogeneous shear deformation using..... More

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To understand the effect of microstructural factors (i.e., the size of α phase, equiaxed vs bimodal structure) on high cycle fatigue (HCF) and fatigue crack propagation (FCP) behaviors of mill-annealed Ti-6Al- 4V (Ti64) alloy, three specimens of EQ (equiaxed)–8 (8 indicates the size of α grain), BM (bimodal)-8, and BM-..... More

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There have been previous attempts to observe the occurrence of dynamic ferritic transformation at temperatures even above Ae3 in a low-carbon steel, and not only in steels, but recently also in titanium alloys. In this study, a new approach is proposed that involves treating true stress-true strain curves in uniaxial..... More

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The CMSX-4 superalloy including refractory elements was directionally solidified using the seed of a [001] single crystal to control the growth direction to [001], where solidification velocity was changed from 25 to 160 μm/s. In the log-log plot between spacing and solidification velocity, the primary dendrite arm spacing and secondary..... More

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The microstructure, texture evolution, and room temperature formability of warm-rolled and coldrolled AZ31 magnesium sheets were investigated in this study. The localized deformation regions, i.e., shear bands, formed during warm-rolling and cold-rolling mainly provide nucleation sites for recrystallization, but the orientation of the recrystallized grains nucleated on the shear bands..... More