This study examined the effect of alumina air-abrasion with different pressure on bonding between an acrylic resin and casting alloys. Disk specimens (8 and 10 mm in diameter) were cast from a silver-palladium-copper-gold (Ag-Pd-Cu-Au, Castwell M.C.12) alloy and a titanium-aluminum-niobium alloy (Ti-6Al-7Nb, T-Alloy Tough). The disks were air-abraded with alumina particles (50-70 microm) under ...

Intelligent, autonomous, shape-controllable structures based on Shape Memory Alloy materials have the potential to provide advanced aircraft and spacecraft systems with the ability to morph, or change their shape for the purpose of optimizing performance. An important aspect of this capability is control of the shape modifications themselves, which benefits from accurate models of the voltage/c...

Abstract Different translations of Plutarch's De Pythiae oraculis 404B reflect an interpretative difficulty not yet adequately thematized by exegetes. dialogues on the Delphic oracle describe two perspectives mantic inspiration: possession prophecy, where god takes over prophetess as a passive apparatus, and stimulation incites but delivers through her own faculties. Plutarch understands Pythia...

INCONEL@ alloy 625 is a nickel-chromium-molybdenum alloy that is used for its high strength, excellent fabricability and weldability, and outstanding corrosion resistance. The outstanding and versatile corrosion resistance of INCONEL alloy 625 under a wide range of temperatures and corrosive environments is the primary reason for its wide acceptance in chemical processing and other applications...

Intermetallic compounds are increasingly being expected to be utilized in tribological environments, but to date their implementation is hindered by insufficient ductility at low and medium temperatures. This paper presents a novel multiphase intermetallic alloy with the chemical composition of Mo-40Ni-13Si (at %). Microstructure characterization reveals that a certain amount of ductile Mo phas...

The Semantic Web is the extension of the World Wide Web that enables people to share content beyond the boundaries of applications and websites. The understanding of Semantic Web documents is built upon ontologies that define concepts and relationships of data. Hence, the correctness of ontologies is vital. In this paper, we propose a new algorithm combined with the software engineering techniq...

Z is a well-defined and well-known specification language. Unfortunately, it takes significant expertise to use existing tools (such as theorem provers) to automatically check properties of Z specifications. Because Alloy is substantially similar to Z and the Alloy Analyzer offers a relatively simple method of model checking, we believe that Alloy should be largely employed in classes that teac...

The purpose of this study was to investigate the correlation between corrosion resistance and surface composition of an experimental Ti-20 mass% Cr casting alloy in a saline solution containing fluoride. The alloy had a greater resistance to corrosion in a fluoride-containing saline solution than did commercially pure titanium. However, with confirmed dissolution of titanium and chromium, it me...

INCONEL alloy 783 was annealed and aged following the standard heat treatment procedure. One set of specimens was then isothermally exposed at 500 degrees C for 3000 h. Mechanical properties were measured at room temperature and 650 degrees C, and the results showed the prolonged exposure increased the strength and decreased elongation of alloy 783. The microstructures of as-produced and expose...

The band structures of dilute-As AlNAs alloys with As composition ranging from 0% up to 12.5% are studied by using First-Principle Density Functional Theory (DFT) calculation. The energy band gap shows remarkable reduction from 6.19 eV to 3.87 eV with small amount of As content in the AlNAs alloy, which covers the deep ultraviolet (UV) spectral regime. A giant bowing parameter of 30.5 eV ± 0.5 ...