Division of Mechanical Sciences: Recent submissions
Now showing items 361-380 of 1912
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Microstructure and Electrochemical Properties of Electrodeposited High Entropy Alloys Coatings
High entropy alloys (HEA) are composed of five or more alloying elements in a nearly equi-atomic ratio. HEAs exhibit high oxidation and corrosion resistance behaviour. In this work, HEA coatings were electrodeposited over ... -
Architecting and Developing Sensors for Environmental Monitoring
Pollution arising from inorganic and organic contaminants is a major environmental hazard that needs imperative attention. Anthropogenic and natural deposition of heavy metal ions constitute a significant component of this ... -
Study of solvent induced polymorphism and crystal nucleation from solution
Crystal polymorphism is the existence of different crystal structures for the same compound. Different polymorphs will have different physical properties, such as solubility and dissolution rate. The early stage of ... -
Permeability Modeling for Single Scale and Dual Scale Fabrics and its implementation to Fabrics Undergoing Shear
Composites have found applications, right from high-end aerospace structures to naval and land-based structures. These structures are realized by manufacturing processes like, autoclave and vacuum assisted resin transfer ... -
Intelligent Gaze Controlled Interface for Limited Mobility Environment
Eye movement-based Human Computer Interaction (HCI) has become a significant area of research in computer science. The gaze-based computing devices allow a computer to be controlled using only eye movements, which can be ... -
Effect of off-stoichiometry, grain size and chemical substitution on microstructure, global structure, electromechanical and energy storage properties of lead free Na0.5Bi0.5TiO3 (NBT) based piezoceramics
Ferroelectric and piezoelectric materials, especially the polycrystalline ceramics, are promising candidates for application in pressure sensors, actuators, transducers, ultrasonic motors, energy storage capacitors, ... -
Numerical and Experimental Investigation of Mixed-mode Fracture Behavior of Basal Textured Magnesium Alloys
Magnesium alloys are finding tremendous applications in automobile and aerospace industries owing to their low density, high specific strength, good machinability and damping characteristics. However, their structural ... -
Rheology of dense granular materials
Granular materials are frequently encountered in our daily lives and are widely used in several industrial processes. Characterising the flow of these materials has always proved challenging due to the lack of simple ... -
Reliability based analysis and design of slopes and tunnels in rock mass
Structures in rock mass such as slopes and tunnels form an important segment in the infrastructure development of a country. Rock mass consists of intact rock matrix with numerous discontinuities that can be represented ... -
Eutectic microstructures: Role of interfacial energy anisotropy and diffusivities
Eutectic alloys find a wide application in industrial cast alloys, solder alloys, and in the emerging field of functional materials. Apart from technological applications, multiphase eutectic alloys have also received keen ... -
Time Domain Spectral Finite Element Simulation of Ultrasonic Wave Propagation in Composite with Defects
Ultrasonic guided wave-based detection of structural defects or damages is one of the promising methods for structural health monitoring (SHM). A significant proportion of structural elements in an aircraft structure and ... -
Estimation of Glacier Mass Balance at Basin Scale in the Himalaya for Recent Decades and Future
The Himalayan glaciers are a major source of perennial river systems which support the livelihood of millions of people in south Asia. Therefore, it is important to understand changes in water resources due to changes in ... -
Influence of Surface Topography and Roughness on Lubrication, Friction and Scuffing in High Hardness Steels
In tribology engineering, friction control is a significant challenge. The interacting surfaces of mechanical components are typically designed for best efficiency during tribological operations and are primarily achieved ... -
Understanding the dynamics and evolution of cratons
The earth is the only rocky planet in the solar system that exhibits plate tectonics. One of the basic tenets of plate-tectonics is that it recycles the lithosphere within a few hundred million years. No oceanic lithosphere, ... -
Studies on Fracture in Ductile Bulk Metallic Glasses
Bulk metallic glasses (BMGs) possess very attractive mechanical properties like high yield strength (~ 2 GPa), high elastic strain limit (2 %), and good corrosion resistance. BMGs display fracture toughness values (in mode ... -
Development of noble metal catalysts and detailed kinetic models for CO oxidation and water gas shift reactions
Noble metal (Pt, Pd, Rh) based catalysts have been highly effective for CO abatement applications such as CO oxidation and the water gas shift reaction (WGS). In the venture for development of novel catalysts, noble metal ... -
New Mechanical Methods to Join Sheets in Lap and Butt Configuration and Analytical Model to Predict and Improve Clinching Joint Strength
Mechanical joining of sheets has many advantages over other joining methods in terms of wide variety combination of similar, dissimilar and non-metallic material sheet joining. In conventional SPR joining, the rivet and ... -
Exotic eutectic microstructures
Solidification of eutectic systems delivers compelling examples of microstructure formation, which makes the phenomena intriguing to many engineers and scientists. Therefore, eutectic solidification is extensively studied ... -
Heat Treatment and Surface Engineering of Selective Laser Melted Ti-6Al-4V for Improved Performance in Biomedical Implants
Metals and alloys are extensively used to prepare a wide variety of biomedical implants. The commonly employed materials are stainless steel (SS), cp-Ti, Ti-6Al-4V, etc., because of their biocompatibility and corrosion ... -
Inverse problems solution using spectral finite element methods
Inverse problems are very challenging as these problems involve, finding the cause by analyzing the effects. In structural dynamics problems, the effects are normally measured in terms of dynamic responses in structures. ...