Here we realize a broadband absorber by using a hyperbolic metamaterial composed of alternating aluminum-alumina thin films based on superposition of multiple slow-wave modes. Our super absorber ensures broadband and polarization-insensitive light absorption over almost the entire solar spectrum, near-infrared and short-wavelength infrared regime (500–2500 nm) with a simulated absorption of ove...

-Methods for producing metal foams are many, but obtaining repeatability in the properties is very difficult. The main challenge posed by the metal foam is that obtaining homogeneous porosity. Although lot of problems involved in the development of metal foams, research people are attracted to the metal foams because of its attractive properties like acoustic damping, bomb mitigation, light wei...

Aluminum alloy sheets have several advantages such as the lightweight, high-specific strength and recycling efficiency. Therefore, aluminum alloy sheets in sheet forming have been used in various areas as automotive components and so forth. During the process of sheet forming, wrinkling which is caused by compression stress might occur and the formability of sheets was affected by occurrence of...

Aluminum alloys have a high strength-to-weight ratio and proper anti-corrosion properties that are used in the automotive, shipbuilding and aerospace industries. The major problem with forming aluminum sheets is the low formability of aluminum sheets at room temperature. Therefore, in the present study, warm deep drawing (WDD) of AA5052-O aluminum alloy sheets with a thickness of 1mm was invest...

A combined technique of an imaging plate (IP) and thin absorbers was applied to tritium in nickel and vanadium specimens using copper, aluminum, and gold foil as the absorber. Copper and aluminum foil are used as a K-edge filter with X-ray absorption at 9.0 keV and 1.56 keV, respectively. Gold has L-edges X-ray absorption at around 13 keV. With this technique, photostimulated luminescence (PSL)...

In this article, the radiated noise by a shock-absorber is studied. This particular shock-absorber is used in a heavy-gauge shearing line in order to stop the cut steel sheets. Three steps are followed to evaluate the propagated sound in the surroundings; first of all, the plate vibration response is specified after the impact. Secondly, the edges of the plate are substituted by a set of the mo...

When a rigid cone is slowly pushed through a thin elastic sheet, the material breaks, exhibiting a network of cracks expanding in the radial direction. Experiments conducted with aluminum sheets show that the number of cracks is selected at the beginning of the perforation process and then remains stable. A simple model predicts the number of cracks as the result of a competition between the el...

Due to its popularity and high crack sensitivity, 6061 aluminum alloy was selected as a test material for the newly developed double-sided arc welding (DSAW) process. The microstructure, crack sensitivity, and porosity of DSAW weldments were studied systematically. The percentage of fine equiaxed grains in the fully penetrated welds is greatly increased. Residual stresses are reduced. Porosity ...

A study has been conducted on the acoustic response of perforated plates at normal incidence. The investigation includes a theoretical analysis of the problem, with validation through experimentation. The acoustic response was quantified through the transmission loss and absorption coefficient of the perforate. The theoretical analysis is based on planar wave propagation through a single contra...

A study has been conducted on the transmission loss of perforated plates at normal incidence. The investigation includes a theoretical analysis of the problem with validation through experimentation. The experiments comprised microphone measurements of transmission loss for 11 perforated plates with variable thickness, hole size, and porosity. The theoretical model is based on planar wave propa...