Micro-X-ray diffraction (Micro-XRD) offers many opportunities for non-destructive, in situ crystalline phase composition analysis of varied artworks. This paper discusses the application of this technique to paintings. Painting surfaces and cross-sections can be examined to characterise pigments and provide additional information complementary to existing investigative analyses, which often rel...

Micro-arc oxidation (MAO) is very effective to enhance the corrosion performance of Mg alloys. However, micro-pores in MAO coatings provide a channel for medium reach alloy matrix. In this work, electron beam strengthening (EBS) performed improve microstructure and coating prepared subsequently performance. The crystalline size decreases, roughness improves, resistance increases. Furthermore, r...

The existence of inertial manifolds for a Smoluchowski equation arising in the 2D Doi-Hess model for liquid crystalline polymers subjected to a shear flow is investigated. The presence of a non-variational drift term complicates the dynamics dramatically from the gradient case in which the it is characterized solely by the steady states. Several transformations are used in order to bring the eq...

Abstract The characterization of the mechanical response semi-crystalline high-density polyethylene (HDPE) materials submitted to mixed mode oligo-cyclic tensile loading condition is attempted. More precisely, HDPE varying microstructures triggered via thermal treatments, are cycled a prescribed strain in vicinity yet beyond elastic limit and then retracted zero stress. Macroscopically, Mullins...