A new signal-processing technique is proposed that involves a phase-resolved correlation method that one can use to determine the phase distribution of low-coherence interferograms. This method improves the sensitivity and resolution of low-coherence interferometers. The depth structure of an aluminum oxide-coated aluminum mirror was determined by use of a low-coherence interferometer with this...

Titanium and stainless steel wires used for retainers in orthodontic procedures were coated with Ag ions and the effects of the coating on common oral pathogens and their pathogenicity were investigated. Two species of cariogenic and three species of periodontopathic bacteria were assessed. Biofilms of Streptococcus sobrinus and two VSC gases produced by P. gingivalis were also examined. Ag ion...

The present paper describes fuzzy logic simulation of an experimental study on the behavior of hot corrosion in molten salt (Na2SO4) of steel-T21 coated by simultaneous yttrium-doped aluminizing-siliconizingprocess . Diffusion coating was carried out at 1050C for 6 hr under Aratmosphere . The weight change measurements made on the coated steel during the cyclic tests are used to determine kinet...

This work reports yarn pull-out studies of commercially available Kevlar® KM2+ individual yarns coated with metallic layers (copper, aluminum, aluminum nitride and silver) via a directed vapor deposition process. The uncoated control metal-coated are hand-woven into fabric swatches for quasi-static experiments. To perform these experiments, fixture is custom-designed fabricated to apply transve...

in order to increase the life span of implants, coatings such as bioglass are applied on implants' surfaces to prevent their corrosion in biological fluids. in this research, 45s5 bioglass coatings were applied on 316l stainless steel substrate by sol- gel method and coating's properties were examined by different analyses. according to the xrd results, an amorphous compound containing na2ca2si...

In this paper, aluminum coatings were prepared on a steel substrate by thermal spraying, and the corrosion morphology resistance of coating investigated salt spray immersion tests. The results showed that after three months tests, still exhibited surface without significant damage had good tolerance. Further effective protection can be achieved spraying with paint. After test, rate samples thic...

Chitosan is known for its hemostatic and antimicrobial properties and might be useful for temporary coating of removable dentures or intraoral splints to control bleeding after oral surgery or as a supportive treatment in denture stomatitis. This study investigated a new method to adhere chitosan to polymethyl methacrylate (PMMA) and polyethylene terephthalate (PET). There were 70 cylindrical s...

The objective of this work is to study the effectiveness of an advanced coating material, polyurea, as a blast mitigation tool for steel components. The response of polyurea coated steel components under blast loading is studied using the explicit LS-DYNA code with appropriate loading time histories supplied using a computational fluid dynamics (CFD) code developed at Penn State University, PUM...