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The mechanical and tribological properties of steel matrix composites (316L stainless steel reinforced with Cr3C2 ceramic particles) were investigated. The steel matrix composites (SMC) with three reinforcing percentages (3, 6, and 9 wt.%)…
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Carbon nanotube (CNT) reinforced metal matrix composites have been the focus of researchers due to their high load-bearing capacity. Among single and multi-wall carbon nanotubes (MWCNT), the latter is preferred by manufacturers and…
This article deals with the prediction of thermomechanical properties of fiber reinforced composites using several micromechanics models. These include strength of material approach, Halpin-Tsai equations, multi-phase mechanics of materials…
This review paper summarizes the current state-of-art and challenges for the future developments of fiber-reinforced composites for structural applications with multifunctional capabilities. After a brief analysis of the reasons of the…
The advantages introduced by carbon fiber reinforced polymer (CFRP) composites has made them an appropriate choice in many applications and an ideal replacement for conventional materials. The benefits using CFRP composites are due to their…
Graphene is a material of excellent mechanical properties, which make it an ideal fiber for reinforcing metal. Since iron is the most used metal in the world, reinforcing iron with graphene can reduce the overall requirement of material in…
Friction Stir Processing is a relatively new technique which has been developed for microstructural modification of metallic materials through intense, localized plastic deformation. The current research work deals with the development of…
The mechanical properties of metal matrix fiber-reinforced composites depend on many aspects of their structure in a complicated way. In this paper, we propose a \emph{minimalistic} approach to study interface debonding, matrix cracking,…
Nonnegative matrix factorization (NMF) has an established reputation as a useful data analysis technique in numerous applications. However, its usage in practical situations is undergoing challenges in recent years. The fundamental factor…
Over the ages, efforts have been made to use composite design to reinforce metals and alloys in order to increase their strength and modulus. On the other hand, nature herself improves the strength, ductility, stiffness and toughness of…
Metal-organic frameworks (MOFs) are an incredibly diverse group of highly porous hybrid materials, which are interesting for a wide range of possible applications. For a reliable description of many of their properties accurate…
Precise manipulation of liquid marbles has significant potential in various applications such as lab-on-a-chip systems, drug delivery, and biotechnology and has been a challenge for researchers. Ferrofluid marble (FM) is a marble with a…
Due to the issues associated with rare-earth elements, there arises a strong need for magnets with properties between those of ferrites and rare-earth magnets that could substitute the latter in selected applications. Here, we produce a…
In metals additive manufacturing (AM), materials and components are concurrently made in a single process as layers of metal are fabricated on top of each other in the near-final topology required for the end-use product. Consequently, tens…
Computational stress analysis is an important step in the design of material systems. Finite element method (FEM) is a standard approach of performing stress analysis of complex material systems. A way to accelerate stress analysis is to…
Metal-organic frameworks (MOFs) have been widely investigated for challenging catalytic transformations due to their well-defined structures and high degree of synthetic tunability. These features, at least in principle, make MOFs ideally…
Classical molecular dynamics (MD) simulations enable modeling of materials and examination of microscopic details that are not accessible experimentally. The predictive capability of MD relies on the force field (FF) used to describe…