Vaporizing foil actuator welding (VFAW), an impact method, was used for the first time to produce high strength welds between SiC-reinforced 8009 aluminum metal matrix composite (MMC) (8009/SiC/11p) and 7075 alloy (AA7075). Microscopic characterization of dissimilar weld revealed multiple heterogenous microstructural zones including unbonded zone at center, a flat interface, wavy trapped jet co...

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Ultrafine-grained Al matrix nanocomposites, reinforced with Al2O3 nanoparticles, were produced from milled powders, either by equal channel angular pressing (ECAP), at room or high temperature, without back pressure, spark plasma sintering (SPS). Their microstructures, mechanical properties (compression, hardness, and sliding wear), thermal stabilities (thermally induced softening cracking) com...

As an alternative to the batch means (BM) method in the stopping rule for symbolic dynamic filtering, this short paper presents an analytical procedure to estimate the variance parameter and to obtain a lower bound on the length of symbol blocks for constructing probabilistic finite state automata (PFSA). If the modulus of the second largest eigenvalue of the PFSA’s state transition matrix is r...

The paper presents the concept and experimental validation of an analytical tool for fatigue damage monitoring in polycrystalline alloys. Ultrasonic signals are utilized for early detection of fatigue damage during the crack initiation period. Small microstructural changes occurring inside the material during the initial stages of fatigue damage cause attenuation and distortion of transmitted w...