An official website of the United States government
Here’s how you know
Official websites use .gov
A .gov website belongs to an official government organization in the United States.
Secure .gov websites use HTTPS
A lock (
) or https:// means you’ve safely connected to the .gov website. Share sensitive information only on official, secure websites.
A self-consistent, single-valued representation of the major physical, mechanical, and thermal properties of a sintered Α-SiC is presented. This comprehensive set of properties is achieved by focusing on a narrowly defined material specification in which
Brian R. Lawn, Antonia Pajares, P Miranda, Y N. Deng
A survey of recent advances in the analysis of ceramic-based layer structures for biomechanial applications is presented. Data on model layer systems, facilitating development of explicit fracture mechanics relations for predicting critical loads to
Elastic constants must be obtained by experiment methods. Materials are too complicated and theory of solids insufficiently sophisticated to obtain accurate theoretic determinations of elastic constants. Usually, simple static mechanical tests are used to
D M. Saylor, B S. El-Dasher, B L. Adams, G S. Rohrer
A stereological method is described for estimating the distribution of grain boundary types in polycrystalline materials over the five macroscopically observable parameters on the basis of observations from a single planar section. The grain boundary
Aluminum nitride (AlN),because of its high thermal conductivity, is seeing increased use for heat management applications of semiconductor devices. With the likelihood of large mechanical stresses, both during fabrication as well as in service, mechanical
Grady S. White, Lin-Sien H. Lum, Stephen W. Freiman
This chapter is intended to provide the reader with a general understanding of why brittle materials fail in a time-dependent manner in service and how to estimate the lifetimes that can be expected for such materials. In addition, we describe procedures
Y E. Lee, Mark D. Vaudin, Peter K. Schenck, B Hockey
A BaTiO 3 polycrystalline thin film was fabricated by pulsed laser deposition on a Pt/Ti/SiO 2/Si substrate. X-ray diffraction suggested that the film contained mixed orientations of (100), (111), and (110). The microstructure and interface between the
A simple sectioning method was applied to investigate the changes in the wear resistance of two thermally sprayed deposits, two yttrium-stabilized zirconia (YSZ) and alumina, subjected to heat treatment. These changes were correlated with the changes in
Adhesion plays a significant role in Nanoscale interfacial friction for basically non-adhesive surfaces (no chemical bonding). The adhesion forces are composed of van der Waals forces and the contact force from surface contact. The van der Waals forces are
Mechanisms of energy dissipation during solid-solid and solid-liquid friction are discussed. A conservative van der Waals adhesion force, when combined with surface imperfectness, such as deformation, leads to adhesion histeresis (AH). When an asperity
M A. Zurbuchen, W Tian, X Q. Pan, D Fong, S K. Streiffer, M E. Hawley, J Lettieri, Y Jia, Shengqian Ma, S J. Fulk, D J. Comstock, S Knapp, A H. Carim, D G. Schlom
Out-of-phase boundaries (OPBs) are translation boundary defects characterized by a misregistry of a fraction of a unit cell dimension in neighboring regions of a crystal. Although rarely observed in the bulk, they are common in epitaxial films of layered
Stability of a composite interface (CI) of roughness-induced superhydrophobic surfaces is studied. In order to have high contact angle and low contact angle hysteresis, superhydrophobic surfaces should be able to form a CI with air pockets in the valleys
Accurate friction measurement at nanoscale is critical in reliable device design. Literature papers have reported different friction values for the same materials pair when different instruments and tip sizes were used. We have conducted a series of