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An electrical pulse heated Kolsky Bar technique has been developed at the National Institute of Standards and Technology (NIST) to understand dynamic properties of metals. Fast heating rates, of up to 6000 °K/s, and high strain rates, up to 10,000 s-1
Dynamic tensile testing using Kolsky Bar methods are used to assess crashworthiness of new structural materials needed for lightweight automotive design. High speed Digital Image Correlation (DIC) measurements routinely show that the strain experienced by
Fan Zhang, Lyle E. Levine, Andrew J. Allen, Carelyn E. Campbell, Adam Abel Creuziger, Nataliya Kazantseva, Jan Ilavsky
The precipitate structure and precipitation kinetics in an Al-Cu-Mg alloy (AA2024) aged at 190 °C, 208 °C, and 226 °C have been studied using ex situ TEM and in situ synchrotron-based, combined ultra-small angle X-ray scattering, small angle X-ray
Arunima Singh, Kiran Mathew, Joshua Grabriel, Kamal Choudhary, Susan B. Sinnott, Albert Davydov, Francesca M. Tavazza, Richard G. Hennig
A Materials Project based open-source python tool, MPInterfaces, has been developed to automate the high throughput computational screening and study of interfacial systems. The framework encompasses creation and manipulation of interface structures for
Li Piin Sung, Karthik V. Pillai, Patrick Gray, Reiner Bleher, Timothy V. Duncan
Concomitant with the development of polymer nanocomposite (PNC) technologies across numerous industries is an expanding awareness of the uncertainty with which engineered nanoparticles embedded within these materials may be released into the external
Aaron G. Kusne, Jason Hattrick-Simpers, John Gregoire
With their ability to rapidly elucidate composition-structure-property relationships, high-throughput experimental studies have revolutionized how materials are discovered, optimized, and commercialized. It is now possible to synthesize and characterize
Edward Garboczi, Isamar Rosa, Michael Lepech, Henning Roedel, David Loftus
This work focuses on a novel class of composites that can be produced extraterrestrially, or in situ, by desiccating a mixture of soil, water, and protein binder to create a strong, versatile material. To date, experimental tests of mechanical properties
A recently developed Flory-Huggins type theory for the competitive solvation of a polymer B by two small-molecule liquids A and C is utilized to examine the nature of the phase boundaries for this general class of ternary solutions (with strong associative
Nicos Martys, Chiara F. Ferraris, William L. George
Abstract Measurement and prediction of the flow of suspensions like cement based materials represents a significant challenge for both the experimentalist and modeler. In this paper, results of a computational study of suspension flow in a pipe and a
Yong Sik Kim, Nicholas G. Dagalakis, Chiara C. Ferraris, Nicos Martys
Incompatibility of cementitious materials with admixtures often requires time consuming testing. Usually, several mixtures need to be prepared either using concrete or paste to determine the optimum high range water reducer dosage (HRWRA) and type. The
Justin M. Shaw, Martin Schoen, Danny Thonig, Michael L. Schneider, Thomas J. Silva, Hans T. Nembach, Olle Eriksson, Olof Karis
The phenomenology of magnetic damping is of critical importance to devices which seek to exploit the electronic spin degree of freedom since damping strongly affects the energy required and speed at which a device can operate. However, theory has struggled
We test the localization model (LM) prediction of a parameter-free relationship between the structural relaxation time tau and the Debye-Waller factor , a property determined on a picosecond timescale, for a series of simulated glass-forming Cu-Zr metallic
Vladimir P. Oleshko, Christopher L. Soles, Philip T. Dirlam, Jungjin Park, Adam G. Simmonds, Kenneth Domanik, Kookheon Char, Richard Glass, Nicola Pinna, Yung-Eun Sung
The development of next-generation battery systems beyond Li-ion technology remains a crucial challenge in accommodating the evolving energy storage demands presented by electric vehicles and efficient storage of energy from intermittent renewable sources
Fractography is a powerful tool for the analysis of fractured glasses and ceramics. It is applicable to fractures created under controlled conditions in the laboratory and to component failures in service. Fractography can identify the cause of failure and
Vivek M. Prabhu, Vytautas Reipa, Adam Rondinone, Peter V. Bonnesen, Eric Formo
An in situ electrochemical small-angle neutron scattering (eSANS) method was developed to measure simultaneously the redox properties and size, shape and interactions of solution-dispersed nanomaterials. By combining multi-step potentials and
Jochen I. Campo, Yanmei Piao, Stephanie Lam, Christopher Stafford, Jason K. Streit, Jeffrey R. Simpson, Angela R. Hight Walker, Jeffrey Fagan
Chemical control of the endohedral volume of single-wall carbon nanotubes (SWCNTs) via liquid-phase filling is demonstrated to be a facile strategy to controllably modify properties of the nanotubes in manners significant for processing and proposed
This work demonstrates controlled bottom-up nickel filling of Through Silicon Vias based on the coupling of suppression breakdown and surface topography. Deposition was performed in a NiSO4 + NiCl2 + H3BO3 electrolyte with a branched polyethyleneimine
Nathan Mahynski, Lorenzo Rovigatti, Christos Likos, Athanassios Panagiotopoulos
Globally ordered colloidal crystal lattices have broad utility in a wide range of optical and catalytic devices, for example, as photonic bandgap materials. However, the self-assembly of stereospecific structures is often confounded by polymorphism. Small
Thien Q. Phan, Lyle E. Levine, I-Fang Lee, Jonathan Z. Tischler, Ruqing Xu, Yi Huang, Terrance G. Langdon, Michael E. Kassner
Synchrotron X-ray microbeam diffraction was used to measure the full elastic long range internal strain and stress tensors of low dislocation density regions within the submicrometer grain/subgrain structure of equal-channel angular pressed (ECAP) AA1050
Yvonne B. Gerbig, Chris A. Michaels, Robert F. Cook
The pressure induced phase transitions of crystalline Si films was studied in situ under a Berkovich probe using the Raman spectroscopy-enhanced instrumented indentation technique. The observations suggested strain and time as important parameters in the
Youngung Jeong, Mark A. Iadicola, Thomas H. Gnaeupel-Herold, Adam A. Creuziger
Constitutive behaviors of an interstitial-free steel sample were measured using an augmented Marciniak experiment. In these tests, multiaxial strain field data of the flat specimens were measured on the basis of the digital image correlation technique. In
Gery R. Stafford, Matthew R. Fayette, Ugo Bertocci
Cantilever curvature was used to examine stress generation during the electrodeposition of Co from 0.1 M NaClO4 + 0.001 M Co(ClO4)2 (pH = 4.8) in films measuring less than 100 nm in thickness. The stress-thickness product showed a -0.2 N/m compression in
Nanoparticle stabilizer type, casting solution additives, and nanoparticle processing by centrifugal or magnetic separation were varied, and specific membrane characteristics were evaluated. Specifically, membrane casting solution viscosity, cast membrane
Li Piin Sung, Justin Gorham, Deborah Jacobs, Savelas A. Rabb, Lee L. Yu, Tinh Nguyen
Temperature effect on the kinetics of photodegradation, surface accumulation of nanoparticles, and nanoparticle release in an epoxy nanocoating exposed to ultraviolet light (UV) was investigated. A model epoxy coating containing 5 % untreated nanosilica