In functionally graded materials (FGMs) fabricated using directed energy deposition (DED) additive manufacturing (AM), cracks may form due to interdendritic stress during solidification, the formation of deleterious phases, or buildup residual stresses. This study builds on our previously proposed concept three-alloy FGM system feasibility diagrams for identification gradient pathways that avoi...

The object of this research is the cracking nuts oil palm (Elaesis guineensis). tree one greatest economic assets a nation can have, provided its importance realized and fully harnessed. After extraction from fruits, virtually all methods involved in kernel nut both traditional small-scale exist scattered or separate units operations. Hence, focused on designing unit incorporating separator for...

Large changes in stiffness associated with cracking and yielding of reinforced concrete sections may be expected to occur during the dynamic response of reinforced concrete frames to earthquake ground shaking. These changes in stiffness in stories that experience cracking might be expected to cause relatively large peak interstory drift ratios. If so, accounting for such changes would add compl...

We investigated the process of nut-cracking acquisition in a semi-free population of tufted capuchin monkeys (Sapajus sp) in São Paulo, Brazil. We analyzed the cracking episodes from monkeys of different ages and found that variability of actions related to cracking declined. Inept movements were more frequent in juveniles, which also showed an improvement on efficient striking. The most effect...

Structural fibres are an effective method to improve concrete post-cracking tensile strength (fctR). Currently, the characterization of this property is mainly performed experimentally. This a source uncertainties at design stages, which hinders development new fibre type and/or optimization those currently existing. paper presents multilayer perceptron neural network predict fctR fibre-reinfor...

An analysis is made of contact damage in brittle coatings on metal substrates, using a case study of a dental porcelain coating of thickness between 0.1 and 1 mm fused onto a Pd alloy base, with spherical indenter of radii 2.38 and 3.98 mm. At large coating thicknesses (>300 mm), the first damage takes the form of surface-initiated transverse cone cracks outside the contact. At small coating th...

Organic–inorganic multilayer permeation barriers are emerging as a promising solution to the stringent barrier requirement of flexible electronics. Yet the mechanical failure of the multilayer permeation barriers could be fatal to their barrier performance. We study two co-evolving failure mechanisms of the multilayer permeation barriers under tension, namely, the cracking of the inorganic oxid...