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Probabilisltic Analysis of Engineering Response of Fiber Reinforced Soils
(2018-04-03)The concept of reinforcement was developed in late 20th century and since then till the recent past there are many works carried out on the effect of fibers in imparting strength and stiffness to the soil. Experimental ... -
Probabilistic Analysis of Radionuclide Transport for Radioactive Waste Disposal Systems in Soil and Fractured Rocks
The safe management of radioactive waste disposal facilities is increasingly becoming a necessary condition for the future development of nuclear industry. To ensure long-term safety of these disposal facilities, performance ... -
Probabilistic design and optimization of foundations on cohesionless soil using surrogate models
The design of foundations depends on the properties of soil, which are affected by various forms of uncertainties. These uncertainties affect the foundation performance and hence are considered in the deterministic design ... -
Processing And Characterisation Of Bulk Al2 O3 p /AIN-Al Composites By Pressureless Infiltration
(Indian Institute of Science, 2005-12-22)Al-Mg alloys were infiltrated into porous alumina preforms at temperatures greater than 950°C where significant amount of nitride forms in the matrix. The present work aims to obtain a process window for growing A1N rich ... -
Processing And Characterization Of B4C Particle Reinforced Al-5%Mg Alloy Matrix Composites
(Indian Institute of Science, 2005-12-22)Metal matrix composites (MMCs) are emerging as advanced engineering materials for application in aerospace, defence, automotive and consumer industries (sports goods etc.). In MMCs, a metallic base material is reinforced ... -
Processing And High Temperature Deformation Of Pure And Magnesia Doped Alumina
(Indian Institute of Science, 2005-12-22)Creep resistance is an important design criterion at high temperatures especially when continuous attempts are made to increase the efficiencies by increasing the operating temperatures. Alumina is an important high ... -
Processing mediated polymorphism in PVDF-based dielectric polymers and their application
The ever-increasing demand in electronic devices, piezoelectric materials such as ceramics, polymers and polymer ceramic composites with enhanced piezoelectric and dielectric properties has become the focus of many ... -
Processing Of Zirconia Based Honeycombs And Evaluation Of Thermo Mechanical Properties
(2010-08-16)Ceramic cellular solids, mainly honeycombs and foams, are a novel class of composite materials where one phase is an interconnected network of solid struts or plates and the other one an empty phase or possibly a fluid. ... -
Processing, Characterization And Evaluation Of A Functionally Graded Ai - 4.6% Cu Alloy
(Indian Institute of Science, 2005-12-22)In some applications the stress across the entire cross-section of a component is not uniform but varies with position. For example, maximum shear stress is highest at the inner surface of a thick-walled cylinder subjected ... -
The Processing, Consolidation And Deformation Behavior Of Bulk Amorphous AI2O3-Y2O3 Ceramics
(2011-07-08)Processing of Bulk Metastable Oxide Ceramics Oxide ceramic materials are extensively used in various modern application domains which require properties such as high temperature stability or creep resistance, wear ... -
Processing, Structure and Properties of Friction Stir Process Derived In-situ Nano Composites and Foams
High specific-strength materials with high toughness can reduce the weight of automobile and aerospace components. Lightweight components for these applications are essential, as they can significantly improve fuel efficiency. ... -
Propagation characteristics in elastic waveguide with discrete nonlinearity
Wave propagation in elastic continuum is a subject of interest in many fields of engineering and has been explored for several decades from theoretical, computational and experimental perspective. In this context, a ... -
Propulsive Performance of Pitching Foils Investigated with Viscous Vortex Particle Method
Unsteady flapping foil based thrusters have emerged as ideal candidates for enabling propulsion in bioinspired and bio-mimetic devices such as autonomous underwater vehicles. To a large extent, this emergence has been ... -
Prospects of Bioethanol from Estuarine Macroalgae
Burgeoning dependence on fossil fuels for transport and industrial sectors has been posing challenges such as depletion of fossil fuel reserves, enhanced greenhouse gas (GHG) footprint, and imminent changes in the climate, ... -
Pseudo-binary and Pseudo-ternary diffusion couple methods for understanding the growth of interdiffusion zone between bond coat and superalloys
Ni-based superalloys are widely used in jet engine applications. Bond coats are applied to these alloys for protection during service in a very harsh environment at high operating temperature. The addition of Pt to the ... -
Pulsed Laser Ablation Deposition of Intermetallic Thin Films: A Study of Evolution of Metastable Phases and Ultra-fine Microstructures
(Indian Institute of Science, 2005-07-27)This thesis is devoted to the deposition of intermetallic thin films by laser ablation deposition (LAD) and their characterization. Pulsed laser ablation and subsequent deposition of the ablated vapours produces films under ...