Nickel based superalloys are high temperature materials which find application as blade and disc components of jet engines due to their ability to retain their mechanical properties at temperatures close to 0.8 of their ...

Microbially Induced Corrosion (MIC) of materials is a major concern of marine industry. Various ferrous and non-ferrous materials used in industry are prone to MIC. Bio-fouling or formation of bio-film on material surface ...

IMI 834 is a near- Ti alloy used in high temperature applications such as compressor discs and blades of aero engines. Titanium alloys including IMI 834 are known to exhibit dynamic strain aging (DSA) over the temperature ...

Advanced piezoelectric ceramics are widely used as piezoelectric sensors, transducers, actuators, etc. Among the commercially viable piezoelectric systems, lead zirconate titanate, PbZr1-XTiXO3 (PZT) has dominated the ...

Industrialization, urbanization and technological developments have improved the standard of living for humans on the one hand, but they also have resulted in the generation of wastes containing toxic heavy metals that are ...

The aim of the present work is to engineer a new kind of coating material with superior quality and reliability in a cost effective way by laser cladding and ball milling process. Non equilibrium processing methods were ...

Ferroelectrics are important class of functional materials that finds application in transducers, actuators, memory devices, electro-optics and position sensing devices. Until recently, the high performance piezoelectrics ...

Multiphasic materials with precise structures are essential in designing materials for applications in various diverse areas like sensors, photovoltaics, porous membranes, etc. The transient morphology developed during ...

The aim of the present thesis work was to synthesize and explore the phase transformation behavior of a binary Heusler alloy based on AlMn system. The intermetallic phase with the stoichiometry AlMn, which is usually termed ...