Developed in the late 1980s, Nonlinear Resonant Ultrasound Spectroscopy (NRUS) has been widely employed in the field of material characterization. Most of the studies assume the measured amplitude to be proportional to the strain amplitude which drives nonlinear phenomena. In 1D resonant bar experiments, the configuration for which NRUS was initially developed, this assumption holds. However, i...

The paper is devoted to the analysis of FRP reinforced concrete elements under thermal loads. As known, non metallic rebars present high values of transverse coefficients of the thermal expansion (CTE) with respect to concrete; as a consequence, when temperature increases, tensile stresses take place within the concrete that may produce splitting cracks and, eventually, the concrete cover failu...

The biaxial stress and thermal expansion of multilayer doped-aluminosilicate environmental barrier coatings were measured in-situ during cooling using microfocused high-energy X-rays in transmission. Coating stresses during cooling from 1000oC were measured for as-sprayed and thermally cycled samples. In the as-sprayed state, tensile stresses as high as 75 MPa were measured in the doped-alumino...

Many components use oil quenching to achieve consistent and repeatable mechanical and metallurgical properties and predictable distortion patterns. The reason oil quenching is so popular is due to its excellent performance results and stability over a broad range of operating conditions. Oil quenching facilitates hardening of steel by controlling heat transfer during quenching, and it enhances ...

This paper describes the technological process for waste IC components reuse and studies its effect on the reliability of plastic IC components through some experiments. Results show that the high temperature thermal shock during printed circuit board (PCB) disassembly and appearance repair could lead to interfacial delamination and subsequent popcorn cracking in plastic IC packages. In the end...

The intermediate-temperature performance of extracted asphalt binders (EABs) is altered when recycled shingles (RAS) and/or reclaimed pavement (RAP) are included in mixes. This happened as a result the RAP’s aged binder and RAS’s oxidized air-blown asphalt. Thus, rheological properties EABs from field cores were examined at intermediate temperatures. fatigue life Superpave cracking parameter am...

This project examines the nature of password cracking and modern applications. Several applications for different platforms are studied. Different methods of cracking are explained, including dictionary attack, brute force, and rainbow tables. Password cracking across different mediums is examined. Hashing and how it affects password cracking is discussed. An implementation of two hash-based pa...

Prediction of concrete performance at high temperatures is of great importance, in particular for safety evaluation of concrete structures in fires in tunnels and high buildings or in thermal hazard situations like hypothetical core disruptive nuclear accidents. High temperatures induce strong physical and chemical changes in the micro-structure of concrete that affect its mechanical behaviour....