Materials Engineering (MatEng): Recent submissions
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Design, Fabrication and Application of In situ Total Internal Reflection (TIR) Raman Tribometer For the Chemical Analysis of Tribological Systems
In conventional tribological experiments that study friction and wear behavior of materials, the contact interface is hidden by the contacting bodies. The physical or chemical phenomena taking place at the interface must ... -
Effect of High-Pressure Torsion and Natural Ageing on Hardness, Electrical Resistivity and Fatigue Properties of Commercially Pure Cu
Commercially pure Cu was processed through high-pressure torsion (HPT) at a pressure of 6 GPa starting from ¼ up to 50 turns. These samples were then naturally aged for 1.75 years under the laboratory condition. Subsequently, ... -
Evaluation of Power-Law Creep in Bending
Materials for engineering components operating at high temperatures during their service like rockets, aero-turbines, automobile engines, nuclear power plants, steam power plants and micro-electronics are often designed ... -
Evolution of Crystallographic Texture and Microstructure in Sputter Deposited NiMnGa Thin Films and Their Influence on Magnetic Properties
Shape memory alloys are the promising candidate materials for sensing and actuator-based applications. Amongst a variety of shape memory alloys, NiMnGa based magnetic shape memory alloys are technologically most important ... -
Numerical Simulations on the Indentation Behaviour of Shape Memory Alloys
Shape Memory Alloys (SMAs) are increasingly being used as micro actuators, sensors, as self expanding cardiovascular stents and in MEMs based devices because of their ability to recover large values of imposed strain. ... -
Phase-field modeling of equilibrium shapes of precipitate and growth instabilities in the presence of coherency stresses
Precipitation-hardened alloys are one of the most technologically significant materials that are used for structural applications, where an important mode of strengthening is due to the impediment to the movement of ... -
Development of a low modulus Ti-Nb-Ta-O alloy for orthopedic applications
Ti-Nb-Ta-Zr based β-Titanium alloys are currently projected as potential candidates for use in orthopaedic implants owing to their low elastic modulus and use of non-toxic elements. However, most of these alloys contain ... -
Microstructure and Shape Memory Behavior of quaternary Ni(50-x)-(Pt/Pd)x-Ti(50-y)-(Hf/Zr)y alloys
Shape memory alloys (SMA) are those class of alloys that can cause shape memory, pseudoelastcity and two-way memory effects due to reversible austenite to martensite phase transformations. The NiTi shape memory alloys ... -
Microstructure and mechanical properties of a 3D printed titanium alloy
The selective laser melting (SLM) process is increasingly being adopted for the manufacturing of metal parts as it provides better design flexibility and has the capability to produce near net shape complex parts, which ... -
Effect of Sintering on Microstructure and Mechanical Properties of Air Plasma Sprayed 7 wt.% Y2O3 Stabilized ZrO2
Air plasma sprayed (APS) 7 wt.% Y2O3 stabilized ZrO2 (7YSZ) coating is conventionally used for thermal insulations (in form of thermal barrier coating, TBC) in various hotter sections of land-based gas turbine engines and ... -
Improvement of High Temperature Oxidation Behavior of ‘w’ Free Y strengthened Co-based Superalloys through Alloying Addition
The discovery of coherent g-g’ microstructure in Co-Al-W and Co-Al-Mo-Nb/Ta systems represents new possibilities for turbine engines materials. Their chemical and mechanical properties are similar to commercially successful ... -
Nano-mechanical, optical and structural property correlations in binary, ternary, and quaternary tellurium-based chalcogenide glasses
Over a half century, from the advent of chalcogenide glasses, it was used for various applications like xerography, phase change memories (PCM), solar cells, infrared devices and so on. These applications made use of some ... -
Improvement of High Temperature Strength of Al and Co Alloy by L12 Type Coherent Precipitates
The present work aims at developing a new class of high temperature alloys based on ordered intermetallic compound that forms coherently with the matrix during solid state transformation. The chosen intermetallics have ... -
Synthesis, Microstructural Stability and High Temperature Deformation of Alumina-Carbon Nanotube Composites
Structural ceramics such as alumina are known to have excellent hardness and high temperature mechanical properties. In view of this, they are used as refractory linings to mitigate the effect of high temperature exposure. ... -
Novel Phenomena Associated With Giant Tetragonality in the Ferroelectric BiFeO3-PbTiO3 System
The multiferroic perovskite solid solution xBiFeO3-(1-x)PbTiO3 (BF-PT) exhibits very unique features such as giant tetragonality (c/a ~ 1.19), coexistence of ferroelectric and magnetic order (in certain composition range) ... -
Organic-Inorganic Hybrid Photovoltaics : Interface Engineering, Fabrication and Characterization
In the past few decades the field of organic electronics particularly organics photovoltaic (OPVs) find wide interest among researchers. It finds many advantages such as light weight, low temperature fabrication requirements, ... -
Testing Methodologies for Probing Site Specific Fatigue Response of Graded Coatings
Thermal barrier coating systems (TBC’s) employed in the high pressure turbine section of a modern aero-turbine engine serve as an example of constrained material systems used for engineering applications. TBC’s today are ... -
Planar Fault Energies in L12 Compounds
High temperature metallic structural materials, such as Ni-base superalloys owe their strength to a two-phase microstructure consisting of an fcc matrix strengthened by intermetallic A3B type precipitates. The performance ... -
Atomistic Simulation of Grain Boundary Effects on Cascade Damage in Vanadium
Advancements in fusion reactor technology has led to the construction of ITER and the realisation of fusion energy is closer than ever before. However, realisation of fusion energy critically depends upon breakthrough in ... -
Evolution of Microstructure and Texture in Manganese Steels
Twinning Induced Plasticity (TWIP) and Transformation Induced Plasticity (TRIP) steels possess excellent combination of high strength and high ductility. Deformation twinning and strain induced martensitic phase transformation ...