To have an insight into the occurrence of inverse Hall-Petch relationship in ultrafine-grained (UFG) aluminum alloys produced by severe plastic deformation (SPD), ultra-SPD (i.e. inducing several ten thousand shear strains via high-pressure torsion, HPT) followed aging is applied to Al-La-Ce alloy. Average nanograin sizes 40 and 80 nm are successfully achieved together with strain-induced Lomer...

This study focuses on evaluating the unconfined compressive strength (UCS) of improved fine-grained soils. A large database of unconfined compressive strength of clayey soil specimens stabilized with fly ash and blast furnace slag based geopolymer were collected and analyzed. Subsequently, using adaptive neuro fuzzy inference system (ANFIS), a model has been developed to assess the UCS of stabi...

a nano/ultra-fine grain al-0.2wt% zr alloy was produced by accumulated roll bonding (arb) processafter 10 cycles. the fraction of high angle grain boundaries increased from 8% to 65.4% during 10passes during arb process. this alloy was subjected to tensile test at different temperatures (523,573and 623 k) and strain rates (0.1 and 0.01 s-1). the optimum condition of temperature and strain rate ...

the full annealing aa6061 aluminum alloy was subjected to severe plastic deformationvia the combination of equal channel angular pressing (ecap) and cold rolling (cr) in order torefine its microstructure and to improve its mechanical properties. according to the results of hotand cold tensile tests, the combination of ecap and cr significantly affected the final strengthand ductility of studied...

For this paper, studies of the microstructure as well mechanical and biological properties bioinert titanium, zirconium, niobium alloys in their nanostructured (NS) ultrafine-grained (UFG) states have been completed. The NS UFG were formed by a combined two-step method severe plastic deformation (SPD), first with multidirectional forging (MDF) or pressing into symmetrical channel (PSC) at given...

Oxidative scrubbing is used to remove H2S from gas streams. A key problem in regeneration of the absorbent is the removal of fine particles of sulphur from the suspension of the scrubbing liquid. Dispersions of ultra-fine bubbles have been called "colloidal gas aphrons" or aphrons for short. These dispersions have interesting properties and it was found that they have particular advantages in t...

The fracture of WC-Co cemented carbides with different WC particle sizes was investigated experimentally, and then a discrete element method (DEM) simulation performed considering such experiments. bending strength ultra-fine grained carbide size 0.4 μm extremely high. sample after test had numerous pieces the short length specimens without fracture. Initial structures consisting matrix defect ...