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

How to isolate the pure Ruthenium DMSO complexes from the reaction mixture?

The reaction between N-S bidentate/ONS tridendate ligand (TSC) and cis[RuCl2(DMSO)4] in ethanol by reflux is complete as seen from TLC chromatography. But removing the excess solvent through...

27 December 2020 6,630 1 View

What may be the reasons for broad spectrum in proton NMR (taken in DMSO-d6) for Pd(II) complexes?

The synthesized Pd(II) complexes involved -NH group attached to C=S moiety. The 1H proton NMR taken in DMSO-d6 solvent consisted of a very broad peak at 4.8 ppm with an integration of 6. They are...

09 December 2020 4,340 3 View

What may be the reasons for broad spectrum at 4.8 ppm in proton NMR (taken in DMSO-d6) for Pd(II) complexes?

The synthesized Pd(II) complexes involved -NH group attached to C=S moiety. The 1H proton NMR taken in DMSO-d6 solvent consisted of a very broad peak at 4.8 ppm with an integration of 6. They are...

09 December 2020 9,960 3 View

How to change the protein chain names X into A, B, C, D after MD simulations in Gromacs?

I am running MD simulations for holoenzyme in Gromacs. The protein has four chains like A, B, C, D. After MD simulations, All the chains are showing as X chain in VMD and even in the PDB file....

12 November 2020 6,228 1 View

What are the hot topics in today's situation where an engineer should focus for betterment of society, e.g. Rural development, Solar farming, etc.?

We engineers sometime busy in doing research in countless unpractical, non urgent, not beneficial to society like areas for increasing count of our research articles. But we know an engineer is a...

17 July 2020 1,950 16 View

Relative telomere length calculation with Ct values?

10 May 2020 7,398 2 View

Can any one suggest me what are improvements i can do in clustering of wireless sensor network based on residual energies?

I have already implemented clustering algorithm for WSN(IoT) based on remaining energies of CH's. But i need to improve algorithm for my academic project. Please suggest me the possible...

01 April 2020 3,357 5 View

Could ecological risk indices applied for water samples?

Could Pollution indicators such as degree of contamination index (Cd) and potential ecological risk index (PERI) proposed by Hakanson (1980) also considered for water samples to represent surface...

24 March 2020 7,345 4 View

What should be the average size of amplicon if I am using LBb1.3 (left T-DNA border) and RP (gene specific Reverse primer) against genomic DNA ?

Hello everyone! I am thinking to amplify T-DNA insertion region using LBb1.3 (left T-DNA border) and RP (gene specific Reverse Primer) against the genomic DNA of one of the T-DNA insertion mutant...

11 March 2020 1,239 3 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