The need to move large volumes of highly abrasive materials, such as coal, grain, sand, and various waste products, places great demands on the piping systems through which they are conveyed. Excessive wear is a common problem, especially evident in the sections of pipe, which change the direction of flow of the abrasive material. . Due to their excellent wear characteristics, ceramic materials...

A new sol±gel route was applied to prepare alumina ®lms by using AlCl3 ́6H2O as starting material and acetylacetone (AcAc) as additive. Our research results show that AcAc and aluminum form a complex compound in the sol, which makes the sol very stable. Meanwhile, the complex structure prevents the decomposition going on quickly during the sintering process and the obtained ®lms are free of crac...

Ultrasound transmission in PMMA spherical bead packings is investigated during the sintering process under stress. Velocity and amplitude measurements of coherent longitudinal waves are performed to monitor the evolution of the elastic properties of the solid frame from noncohesive packing to sintered granular material. Comparison between the experimental velocity data and the prediction by a c...

Nanoscale patterns with high conductivity based on silver nanoparticle inks were fabricated using spray coating method. Through optimizing the solution content and spray operation, accurate nanoscale patterns consisting of silver nanoparticles with a square resistance lower than 1 Ω /cm2 were obtained. By incorporating in situ sintering to substitute the general post sintering process, the time...

producing parts with high density and improved mechanical properties is one of the most important aims of powder metallurgy process. there are many factors for attaining modified properties in sintered parts but among them controlling type and quantity of alloying elements and manufacturing parameters such as compacting pressure, sintering temperature are the most effective.in this research, tw...

This paper presents an integrated model for predicting the burn-through point (BTP) of the lead-zinc sintering process from the gas temperature distribution (GTD). This process features strong nonlinearity, a large time delay, and time-varying parameters. First, the characteristics of the GTD in the sintering machine are obtained from experiments, and a surface temperature model for the materia...

A kind of fuzzy neural networks FNNs based on adaptive pattern clustering and feature map APCFM is proposed to improve the property of the large delay and time varying of the sintering process. By using the density clustering and learning vector quantization LVQ , the sintering process is divided automatically into subclasses which have similar clustering center and labeled fitting number. Then...

Dye sensitised solar cells (DSCs) typically include a mesoporous titanium dioxide (TiO2) scaffold, sensitised with an adsorbed dye, as the main active element responsible for the photon absorption and charge separation functionalities. The sintering process employed in the TiO2 active layer fabrication plays a crucial role in the formation of the nanoparticle (NP) scaffold and hence in the perf...

Inkjet printing offers an attractive method for the deposition of metal interconnects in electronic systems and enables a low-cost, environmentally friendly route to manufacture. However, virtually all current metal inkjet processes require post-deposition sintering treatments to achieve the optimum electrical conductivity, because the growth mechanism involves coalescence of discrete nanoparti...