An increasing number of industrial applications need superstrength steels. It is known that refined grains and nanoscale precipitates can increase strength. The hardest martensitic steel reported to date is C0.8 steel, whose nanohardness can reach 11.9 GPa through incremental interstitial solid solution strengthening. Here we report a nanograined (NG) steel dispersed with nanoscale precipitates...

Gh. H. Popescu, E. Nicolăescu, Dimitrie Cantemir Christian University, Bucharest; E. Nica, Bucharest University of Economic Studies; G. Lăzăroiu, Spiru Haret University, Bucharest, Romania The theory that we shall seek to elaborate here puts considerable emphasis on technological features of China’s steel production, its emergence as the world’s most significant steel producer and main manufact...

At present, the scattered and closed steel logistics resource should be integrated. Reasonable benefit allocation mechanism is the prerequisite for steel logistics resources integration. Based on previous studies on steel logistics resource integration, this paper proposes an important problem in steel logistics resources integration: benefit distribution. First, this paper gives the classifica...

The corrosion of steel reinforcement in an aging highway infrastructure is a major problem currently facing the transportation engineering community, in particular bridge engineers. In the United States, maintenance and replacement costs are measured in billions of dollars. Further, the use of deicing salts has resulted in steady deterioration of bridge decks due to corrosion. These concerns ha...

derstood, dysphagia had worsened, cognitive function had deteriorated and the patient was no longer self-sufficient. On hospitalization in our department at age 28 years, neurological examination showed severe mental retardation (IQ 48), ataxic gait, diffuse hypotonia and mild muscle hypotrophy, unintelligible speech and hypernasal voice, dysphagia, slight upward gaze palsy, strabismus, anisoco...

Oculopharyngodistal myopathy (OPDM) is an extremely rare, adult-onset hereditary muscular disease characterized by progressive external ocular, pharyngeal, and distal muscle weakness and myopathological rimmed vacuole changes. The causative gene is currently unknown; therefore, diagnosis of OPDM is based on clinical and histopathological features and genetic exclusion of similar conditions. Mor...

Specimens of Transversotrema patialense (sensu lato) ( Soparkar, 1924 ) Crusz and Sathananthan, 1960 (Digenea: Transversotrematidae) infected the skin (epidermal spaces beneath scales near pectoral fins) of 4 of 126 (prevalence 3%; mean intensity 1.8) zebrafish ( Danio rerio (Hamilton, 1822) [Cypriniformes: Cyprinidae]) purchased in 2009 and cultured by a California (USA) fish supplier. These f...

This investigation compared four conventional vehicle armour materials for performance under blast loading. The parameters measured were resistance to deformation, mechanical toughness and metallurgical microstructure. It was found that two of these, the M steel and A steel, showed the least deformation and M steel showed better shock energy absorption. B steel had high toughness but showed sig...

The structural behavior fire-resistant steel is essential; fire-resistant steel is proven to have higher strength at elevated temperature than that of conventional steel. Also, the requirement of fire protection in the fire-resisting steel can be relaxed as compared with conventional steel structures. However, the design criteria for the application of the fire-resisting steel in steel columns ...

Three different types of secondary coronas developed around monazite-(Ce) were discovered in altered metavolcanic rocks closely associated with the Palaeoproterozoic apatite-iron oxide ore deposit Grängesberg, Sweden. All three reaction include fluorapatite that is either rimmed by allanite-(Ce), REE-fluorocarbonate(s), or hingganite-(Y). The latter mineral has not been previously observed amon...