Materials Engineering (MatEng): Recent submissions
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Investigations On The Properties Of TiN, NbN Thin Films And Multilayers By Reactive Pulsed Laser Deposition
(2013-10-21)Two technologies, namely Laser Technology and Surface Modification Technology, have made rapid strides in the last few decades. The lasers have evolved from a simple laboratory curiosity to a matured industrial tool and ... -
Fatigue Damage Characterization Of Carbon/Epoxy Laminates Under Spectrum Loading
(2013-10-04)Fibre Reinforced Polymer Composites are extensively used in aircraft structures because of its high specific stiffness, high specific strength and tailorability. Though Fibre Reinforced Polymers offer many advantages, they ... -
Studies On Bulk And Multilayer Composites Of Nb-Si Alloys
(2013-08-02)The present thesis deals with Nb-Si alloy composites in both bulk and multilayer forms. The work has been divided into two parts. First part (chapter 4-6) deals with Nb based silicides binary and ternary alloys with ... -
Interdiffusion Studies In Metal Silicon Systems
(2013-07-10)Metal silicon systems have a wide range of applications, ranging from the use in electronic industry, as superconductors, protective coatings and as high temperature structural materials. Mo- and Nb-based silicides have ... -
Intelligent Microcontainers : Fabrication, Characterization And Tunable Release Properties For Drug Delivery
(2013-06-26)Polyelectrolyte capsules fabricated by layer-by-layer (LbL) technique are introduced as a simple and efficient carrier system for spontaneous deposition of proteins and low molecular water soluble drug. The objective of ... -
Magnesium Matrix-Nano Ceramic Composites By In-situ Pyrolysis Of Organic Precursors In A Liquid Melt
(2013-06-20)In this thesis, a novel in-situ method for incorporating nanoscale ceramic particles into metal has been developed. The ceramic phase is introduced as an organic-polymer precursor that pyrolyzes in-situ to produce a ceramic ... -
Plastic Deformation During Indentation Of Crystalline And Amorphous Materials
(2013-06-10)Indentation hardness, H, has been widely used to characterize the mechanical properties of materials for more than a century because of the following advantages of this technique; (1) it requires small sample and (2) the ... -
Role Of Boron On The Evolution Of Microstructure And Texture In Ti-6AL-4V-0.1B Alloy
(2013-06-04)Titanium and its alloys constitute an important class of materials for aerospace, biomedical, and chemical industries, primarily due to their high specific strength and fracture toughness with good corrosion resistance. ... -
A Study Of Crystallographic Texture, Residual Stresses And Mechanical Property Anisotropy In Aluminium Alloys For Space Applications
(2013-05-21)Aluminium alloys, which are the most widely used materials in the aircraft and aerospace industries, find their applications due to high strength–to-density ratio, resistance to catastrophic fracture, high degree of ...