This work deals with the three-dimensional magneto-thermo-elastic problem of a functionally graded truncated conical shell under non-uniform internal pressure and subjected to magnetic and thermal fields. The material properties are assumed to obey the power law form that depends on the thickness coordinate of the shell. The formulation of the problem begins with the derivation of fundamental r...

electro-thermo-elastic stress analysis of piezoelectric polymeric thick-walled cylinder reinforced by boronnitride nanotubes (bnnts) subjected to electro-thermo-mechanical fields is presented in this article. the electro-thermo-elastic properties of piezoelectric fiber reinforced composite (pefrc) was studied by a modified xy micromechanical model capable of exhibiting full coupling relation be...

Previous experiments have shown that stress-induced martensitic transformation in certain polycrystalline NiTi shape memory alloys can lead to strain localization and propagation phenomena when loaded in uniaxial tension. The number of nucleation events and kinetics of transformation fronts were found to be sensitive to the nature of the ambient media and imposed loading rate due to the release...

Abstract We experimentally examine the thermo-resistive and thermo-piezoresistive sensitivity of multiwall carbon nanotube (MWCNT)/polypropylene random copolymer (PPR) nanocomposites processed via fused filament fabrication (FFF) process. The feedstocks were fabricated by melt blending neat PPR with a predetermined amount MWCNTs (either 4, 6 or 8 wt%) using twin-screw extruder. Thermo-resistive...

Abstract This work presents a multi-scale modelling framework for thermo-mechanical behaviour of Compacted Graphite Iron cast iron. A general thermo-elasto-visco-plastic model is developed to describe the matrix (pearlite) behavior under cyclic loading, which parameters are identified from tests on pearlitic steel. The pearlite takes into account temperature dependent rate-dependency and kinema...

We have demonstrated the transfer of 39 K and 40 K atoms from a magneto-optical funnel (a hollow pyramidal mirror) through a low (0:05 l/s) conductance hole and into a conventional magneto-optical trap (mot) 35 cm away, with an efficiency of approximately six percent. This simple scheme should be useful for experiments requiring high loading rates with minimal contamination from hot untrapped a...

The need for tunable optical transmitters in optical networking is growing at a rapid rate. A tunable optical transmitter is the combination of a tunable laser, an isolator, and a modulator. Although today lasers and modulators could be integrated together on a single chip, an integrated component of this type would not be useful because the absence of an isolator between the two elements would...

Temperature dependent fracture properties of NiTi-based Shape Memory Alloys (SMAs), within the pseudoelastic regime, were analyzed. In particular, the effective Stress Intensity Factor (SIF) was estimated, at different values of the testing temperature, by a fitting of the William's expansion series, based on Digital Image Correlation (DIC) measurements. It was found that temperature plays an i...

Controlled alignment and mechanically robust bonding between nanowires (NWs) and electrodes are essential requirements for reliable operation of functional NW-based electronic devices. In this work, we developed a novel process for the alignment and bonding between NWs and metal electrodes by using thermo-compressive transfer printing. In this process, bottom-up synthesized NWs were aligned in ...

Surface treatments of engineering materials are important for serviceable engineering components. One of the thermo-chemical surface treatments of steel based materials is the boriding process. In this study, low alloy steel substrates were borided by pack boriding process at 900 C. Experimental indentation tests were conducted on Dynamic Ultra-micro Hardness test machine, under applied peak lo...