A transient plane source measurement technique is applied to assessing the heat capacity and thermal conductivity of hydrating cement pastes in their fresh state and during the course of 28 d of hydration at 20 C. Variables investigated include water-to-cement mass ratio (w/c – 0.3 or 0.4) and curing conditions (sealed or saturated curing). The heat capacity data for the fresh cement pastes are...

Multi-scale model for response of the bi-material “thermostat,” consisting of a single unidirectional lamina of carbon/epoxy and an uncured layer of neat diglycidyl ether of bisphenol F (DGEBF) with curing agent, diethyltoluenediamine (DETDA), is developed in order to measure thermal strains during a prescribed, but arbitrary thermal history. Molecular modeling simulations provided the elastic ...

Received: 26 July 2011 Accepted: 17 July 2012 Abstract Background and Aim: Lack of appropriate seal is one of the major problems in composite restorations. Properties of the bonding system can play a crucial role in sealing ability of these restorations. The aim of this study was to evaluate the microleakage of class V composite restorations with varying irradiation times for curing dentin bond...

In this study, bio-oil from the fast pyrolysis of renewable biomass was used as the raw material to synthesize bio-oil phenol formaldehyde (BPF) resin-a desirable resin for fabricating phenolic-based material. During the synthesis process, paraformaldehyde was used to achieve the requirement of high solid content and low viscosity. The properties of BPF resins were tested. Results indicated tha...

On fabrication by contact printing, a nanostructured self-assembled monolayer (SAM) of alkanethiol contains a substantial fraction of unbound molecules that are either inverted among other upright molecules or piled on top of the SAM. The molecular dynamics simulation in the present study demonstrates that thermal annealing cures these defects for a SAM island of octadecanethiol. The SAM island...

changed under ambient condition for at least 40 h, time to which these measurements were carried out. To investigate the absorption behavior as a function of time, the absorption spectrum at 100 OC was taken at regular intervals over 40 h for poled/cured A204/DR1. An absorption peak at A, , = 508 nm existed before poling/curing. After poling/curing &shifta to 493 nm with a decrease of absorbanc...

A design sensitivity method is used to find optimal autoclave temperature and pressure histories for curing of thermoset-matrix composite laminates. The method uses a finite element simulation of the heat transfer, curing reaction, and consolidation in the laminate. Analytical sensitivities, based on the direct differentiation method, are used within the finite element simulation to find the de...

Silicone resin has recently attracted great attention as a high-power Light Emitting Diode (LED) encapsulant material due to its good thermal stability and optical properties. In general, the abrupt curing reaction of the silicone resin for the LED encapsulant during the curing process induces reduction in the mechanical and optical properties of the LED product due to the generation of residua...

ꞵ-tricalcium phosphate (ꞵ-TCP) and anorthite are the main crystalline components in bone china bodies. The difference in their thermal expansion coefficients causes a decrease in the thermal shock resistance of the body. In this study, anorthite was replaced with bone ash at the bone china body, and the effect of this new composition on different properties of bone china, after curing at 1260 °...