What could be the reason where i got some extra small peaks in my sample ?

Hi all, Actually, I have done the experiment where the single crystalline substrate has used to coat a thin film. In that, I have got substrate peaks and also thin-film material peaks also. But...

16 August 2020 6,532 11 View

How to apply a reversed cyclic loading in Midas FEA?

How to apply a prescribed reversed cyclic loading in Midas Fea? (Links for tutorials or snapshots of the steps will be a great help)

21 January 2020 2,471 1 View

Site Directed Muatgenesis - Deletions not working! Please help ?

Hello I have been trying to make deletion constructs using site directed mutagenesis. The largest deletion is around 522 basepairs. My plasmid is around 11KB. I have tried inverse PCR primers,...

18 March 2019 4,591 5 View

Does Koops media supports the growth of Ammonia oxidizers alone?

Does koops media supports the growth of Ammonia oxidizing bacteria only? Or other heterotrophic microbes will also grow in the same media? Similarly Watson and Waterbury media supports only NOB...

18 March 2019 4,176 1 View

How to differentiate LDPE and LLDPE through DSC?

Identification of plastic sample from environment is difficult. Differential scanning calorimetry provides a better way for identification of PP and PET and others. How to differentiate between...

06 December 2018 5,487 6 View

How to do successively FT-IR and SEM analysis of plastic film?

I want to do successively SEM and FT-IR analysis of a plastic film. Dear researchers kindly clarify which is to be done first. In case I am intended to do FTIR first and then after 20 days...

08 May 2018 8,874 5 View

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12 February 2018 9,332 5 View

Does further heating process make any structural variation in metal ferrite sample ?

05 October 2017 5,675 3 View

How do we calculate wt% for composites ?

i want to make composite with two different oxide materials in review papers one material weight is fixed in gram another material was added to different wt% so i don't know how to calculate the...

04 October 2017 3,405 5 View

Hello everyone. Is it possible to do PCA analysis for three different genes from 10 rhizosphere samples with band intensity and SW index data alone?

I have done DGGE gel analysis for three different genes from ten rhizosphere plants. I have got the data on band intensity and SW index and I would like to do Principal Component analysis (PCA)...

09 January 2017 3,543 1 View

What is the production process of CaFe ferroalloys?

I looking for ferro calcium production process

03 March 2021 1,755 4 View

12% ledeburitic cold work tool steel, etched for revealing retained austenite, any help for clarifying?

Hello everyone. Given microstructure image belongs to a 12% ledeburitic cold work tool steel (annealed and tempered). The sample was etched with picral (100 mL ethanol and 4 g picric acid). I...

02 March 2021 4,119 3 View

Why Austenite grains in steel show much more twinning than ferrite grains?

It is oftentimes said to be a distinctive metallographic trait that differentiates a fully austenitic and a fully felly ferritic steel without etching that might distinguish between two. Why...

02 March 2021 728 2 View

How Can I bring as much common elements in steel as possible to calculate stable phase(s) in OpenCalphad?

As I was tweaking step-by-step OpenCalphad6 Macros step1.ocm involving phase and thermal property calculation of a High-speed steel, I could not incorporate more than 6 elements in the steel...

01 March 2021 8,840 1 View

I need to accelerate corrosion in steel parts that are used in a salt-water environment. Is there a technique for doing so?

I have a structure that employs d-ring swiveling tie-downs that corrode during use and become "frozen". I have sample swivel assemblies that I wish to corrode to see if I can free them using one...

01 March 2021 3,739 3 View

Why is my platinum counter electrode getting dirty during electrodeposition?

I am conducting anodic electrodeposition of MnO2 onto a stainless steel substrate, using a platinum strip as a counter electrode. This is done galvanostatically, with the current held between 5...

27 February 2021 1,829 3 View

What kind of steel moulds are used for hot pressing metal powders?

My main concern is that the metal powders should not weld to the mold surface and I should easily be able to eject out the pressed samples. I am looking for alternative for graphite moulds. The...

22 February 2021 2,965 4 View

What are effects of steel jacketing on flexural strength?

Dear all, If steel jacketing is used to retrofit a reinforced-concrete (RC) column, can we use it to improve flexural strength? I understand that we leave gaps between the ends of the jacket and...

22 February 2021 1,906 5 View

How to model steel jackets using SeismoStruct?

Hi all, Does SeismoStruct support modeling rectangular RC columns retrofitted with steel jackets (e.g. rectangular, elliptical) ? Any suggestions for other software (apart from...

20 February 2021 4,521 1 View

Thermal and mechanical properties of concrete and steel after cooling?

How do the thermal conductivity, specific heat capacity, plastic strain, critical compressive displacement, and thermal expansion of both hot-rolled steel and concrete change after cooling based...

15 February 2021 1,385 5 View