Infrared thermography is commonly used as a non-destructive testing technique for damage monitoring of composite materials under mechanical loadings. Self-heating tests consist in the stabilized heating material submitted to cyclic loading increasing values stress level. It appears that load threshold from which thermal behaviour changes can be related fatigue limit tested material. In this pap...

Supramolecular self-assembly can not only lead to a better understanding of biological systems, but also can enable rational building of complex and functional materials. In this report, hierarchical one-dimensional (1D) architectures involving nanotubes, coiled-coil ropelike structures, nanohelices, and nanoribbons are created via lanthanum-cholate supramolecular self-assembly. These sophistic...

Self-folding is an approach used frequently in nature for the efficient fabrication of structures, but is seldom used in engineered systems. Here, selffolding origami are presented, which consist of shape memory composites that are activated with uniform heating in an oven. These composites are rapidly fabricated using inexpensive materials and tools. The folding mechanism based on the in-plane...

This work is devoted to the experimental investigation of effect laser shock peening (LSP) on thermo-mechanical properties metals. ARMCO iron was chosen as model material for study. Samples were subjected LSP, and tested following procedure self-heating (Risitano) technique. To investigate damage that induced by heating, fatigue tests coupled with infrared thermography measurements. The results...

Subject review People want to have good conditions in their living and existing places. Therefore heating and cooling methods are developed according to different application areas, different heat transfer principles. When we heat a place, the suitability of the placement of heating element and applied heating method need to be examined from the aspect of factors such as effect on human health,...

Combustion-generated pollutants, principally those from solid-fuel including biomass and coal when cooking and heating, bring out a significant public health hazard in both developed and developing countries. Most of the existing studies addressing this issue focus on developing countries, and on exposure when cooking rather than heating. By using the Kentucky Homeplace Program data, this resea...

The present study investigates Joule heating in piezoresistive microcantilever sensors. Joule heating and thermal deflections are a major source of noise in such sensors. This work uses analytical and numerical techniques to characterise the Joule heating in 4-layer piezoresistive microcantilevers made of silicon and silicon dioxide substrates but with the same U-shaped silicon piezoresistor. A...

Treatment of sewage sludge by composting for the production of materials useful as a soil amendment is a feasible method of achieving both waste disposal and agricultural enhancement simultaneously。 However, the hygienic safety of the final products is an issue which requires resolution. This study was an investigation of the effects of heating patterns on the inactivation and regrowth potentia...

Current practice is to install clear juice heaters ahead of first effect evaporators to ensure that the juice entering the evaporator is above its boiling temperature, allowing flashing to occur on entry. The alternative, of allowing the juice heating to take place in the evaporator, is sometimes rejected on the basis that heating transfer performance of an evaporator is very poor when operatin...

The greenhouse gas effect has become a major preoccupation worldwide. Heating of buildings and houses is one of the major sources of this effect. We propose to optimize heating control systems by directly integrating the recognition of people’s activities and context in the process of temperature regulation. We introduce the concept of kinetic-awareness as a way of making a heating control syst...