The decomposition of austenite to ferrite or cementite begins at the equilibrium phase boundary of austenite/ (ferrite austenite) or austenite/(cementite austenite) in binary Fe–C phase diagram. The temperature values on the phase boundaries of austenite/(ferrite austenite) and austenite/(cementite austenite) at a certain carbon content are called Ae3 and Acm temperatures of the steel, respecti...

Since the end of the nineteenth century, automated root canal instrumentation has been available, but systems had many problems. The challenges of increased canal blockage, instrument breakage, and insufficient canal debridement were related to the use of stainless steel instruments and have been dramatically improved with the introduction of nickel-titanium (NiTi) files. The first useable NiTi...

The purpose of this study is to investigate the influence of setting expansion and thermal expansion of the phosphate-bonded investment on the fitness of cast claspsfabricated by a superelastic Ni-Ti alloy. Investment models were made from the columnar stainless-steel model supposed the abutment tooth the various dilusion colloidal silica solutions.Cast clasps were fabricated using by using a s...

A simple, sensitive and interference-free method was proposed for the determination of arsenic, based on the generation of volatile arsenic trichloride coupled with atomic fluorescence spectrometry. Thiourea, together with l-ascorbic acid, was used to reduce As(V) to As(III), and the chloride generation was based on the reaction between As(III) and hydrochloric acid. Under the optimized experim...

Purpose: The purpose of the present study was to investigate the bond strength of an indirect composite material to a magnetic stainless steel alloy. Materials and Methods: The surfaces of machined magnetic stainless steel alloy specimens were abraded with 600-grit silicon carbide paper and then grouped according to the type of surface treatment given: 1) without preparation, 2) tribochemical s...

Current address – Department of Industrial Engineering, University of Wisconsin-Milwaukee, Milwaukee, WI 53201 † Corresponding author – menezesp@uwm.edu Tel: (414) 229-3377 ABSTRACT Surface texture influences friction during sliding contact conditions. In the present investigation, the effect of surface texture of soft materials on friction during sliding against hard materials was studied usin...

INTRODUCTION Stainless steel welds characteristically consist of a two-phase austenite plus ferrite microstructure. Ferrite levels may vary from a few percent in austenitic stainless steel welds to more than 50% in duplex stainless steel welds. The ability to predict the ferrite content in these welds is essential for many reasons. To a large extent, the final ferrite content determines a weldm...