Ordinary Portland Cement (OPC) is often used for the solidification/stabilization (S/S) of waste containing heavy metals and salts. These waste components will precipitate in the form of insoluble compounds on to unreacted cement clinker grains preventing further hydration. In this study the long term effects of the presence of contaminants in solidified waste is examined by numerically simulat...

We report the influence of growth rate and external magnetic field on the eutectic lamellar spacing and properties of directionally-solidified Ag-Cu eutectic alloys. The results indicated that the relationship between the lamellar spacing of directionally-solidified Ag-Cu alloys and the growth rate matched the prediction of the Jackson-Hunt model, and the constant was 5.8 µm³/s. The increasing ...

A direct solid-phase radioimmunoassay procedure was developed for the determination of cholera toxin and cholera toxin antibody. The reported method employed anti-choleragenoid antibody attached to polystyrene tubes as a solidified binder for cholera toxin. The binding of radioidinated cholera toxin on its solidified antibody was inhibitable by unlabeled cholera toxin and cholera toxin antibody...

A directional solidification technique was developed and applied to the problem of fractional crystallization of an iron meteorite parent body. Samples of Fe-Ni alloys close to meteorite compositions and containing S, P, and C were made. The solidified structures contain secondary phases such as sulphides within the proeutectic single crystal austenite (taenite). As a result of these experiment...

Turbine blades with controlled textures such as directionally solidified and single crystal structures have proven to have much improved ductility and longer thermal and fatigue life. It has been further reported that the benefits of single-crystal over conventionally cast as well as directionally solidified components critically depend on avoiding the introduction of defects, such as stray gra...

G. W. Ao, M. G. Shen, Z. S. Zhang, B. L. Li: College of Materials and Metallurgy, University of Science and Technology Liaoning, Anshan City, China Hollow side wall insulation mathematical model of unidirectional solidification temperature field was carried out. With the aid of finite element analysis software ProCAST, directionally solidified ingot temperature field with hollow lateral wall in...

Microstructure of a rapidly solidified Al-4V-2Fe alloy has been examined in detail by means of transmission electron microscopy and atom probe field ion microscopy. It is composed of a mixture of α-Al and amorphous phases. α-Al grains are relatively large (400 nm), but nanoscale domains of amorphous phase are trapped in the fcc grains. The interface between the α-Al and amorphous phases are ver...

The deformation of a directionally solidified columnar dendritic mushy zone in a transparent succinonitrile-acetone (SCN-ACE) alloy has been studied experimentally. In addition to solidifying dendritically like a metal alloy, this alloy also has mechanical properties that are similar to those of metals near the melting point. The experiments are relevant, for example, to the deformation of a pa...