Friction and abrasive surface treatment of engineering steels is the new effective tool for surface material strengthening and improving the resistance to fatigue damage. The specific abrasive machining of medium-carbon steel yields formation of surface hardened layer with super dispersed nanocrystal structure which increase the fatigue damage resistance in times. The present study aimed to est...

Cosmic dust analogue materials including amorphous and crystalline silicates, ferrous oxide, and iron sulfide have been studied by reflectance spectroscopy of bulk surfaces as well as by transmission spectroscopy of particulates at temperatures down to 10 K. From the reflectance measurements optical data have been derived. The spectra show a sharpening and strengthening of the vibrational bands...

The microstructure of deformation-processed metal-metal composites (DMMC) of Mg-Li alloys containing steel reinforcing fibers was characterized to correlate the fiber size to the deformation strain and mechanical properties of the composite material. Micrographs taken using scanning and transmission electron microscopy techniques revealed fiber sizes larger than predicted from the deformation a...

Lightweighting in the transportation industry is today recognized as one of the most important strategies to improve fuel efficiency and reduce anthropogenic climate-changing, environment-damaging, and human death-causing emissions. However, the structural applications of lightweight alloys are often limited by some inherent deficiencies such as low stiffness, high wear rate and inferior streng...