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For example, why is yield point elongation phenomena especially associated to low carbon steels (and not to high carbon steels) when its attributed to dislocation pinning by solute atoms? Also,...

04 May 2014 4,119 8 View

What are the 3D RVE Periodic Boundary Conditions?

I would like to know what the boundary conditions imposed on edges and corner nodes of a 3D RVE under the periodic boundary conditions should be?

04 May 2014 5,201 2 View

Does anyone have insight on Periodic Boundary Conditions vs Homogeneous Boundary Conditions for 2D RVE?

02 March 2014 9,977 10 View

Twinning and Martensitic Transformation

My question is two fold: 1) Is it technically correct to call Twinning a Deformation or Transformation? 2) I understand that both twinning and martensitic transformation happen due to collective...

10 November 2013 4,996 11 View

Modelling the effect of Hot Forming on Fatigue Life of the Components (esp. Gears)?

I am interested to know what is the information (in terms of microstructural parameters), if any, that gets transfered from Hot Forming to final fatigue life of any component, considering the...

04 May 2013 8,658 4 View

How two melting peaks in DSC of polypropylene can be merged into one crystallization peak?

The figure shows DSC cooling (blue) and 2nd heating (green) curves (step: 10 K/min) for a commercial sample supplied as Atactic Polypropylene (APP). The heating curve illustrates two major...

03 March 2021 5,857 3 View

What is the production process of CaFe ferroalloys?

I looking for ferro calcium production process

03 March 2021 1,755 4 View

Why are the velocities so high in my Boussinesq approximation Fluent simulation?

Hello, I have a mechanism where air rises due to convective flows. In this simulation, nothing is driving the air except this. I understand that the Boussinesq approximation only works for small...

02 March 2021 4,910 3 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

What is the characteristic length to determine the Reynolds number for the scattered turbulent fluid flow?

Dear all, I just saw this example in FB on the difference between laminar flow and turbulent flow. The flow from a pipe hits the sink and scattered. The flow from the pipe is characterized as...

02 March 2021 1,999 5 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

What is the state of the drug inside solid lipid nanoparticles (SLNs)?

I am a little confuse with the mechanism of solid lipid nanoparticles (SLNs). The main point of encapsulating drugs into SLNs is because some drugs have low solubility in water. Therefore, SLNs...

01 March 2021 3,703 3 View

Precipitate after adding laemmli buffer to protein solution containing Potassium Acetate?

Hi, I am running a size exclusion chromatography experiment with a buffer containing Potassium Acetate as a salt. I analyse these fractions through SDS-PAGE. After boiling my SEC fractions in...

01 March 2021 2,622 3 View