Deep-Learning Based Microstructure Reconstruction And Generation, 2024 California Polytechnic State University, San Luis Obispo
Deep-Learning Based Microstructure Reconstruction And Generation, Cameron J. Maloney, Lucas Taliaferro
College of Engineering Summer Undergraduate Research Program
Characterizing the microstructural behavior of materials is crucial for understanding their properties and performance. Traditional imaging methods, such as optical microscopy and electron microscopy, are effective but costly and time-consuming. Computational approaches can reduce costs and time while expanding the accessibility of microstructural analysis through the generation of new microstructure images. Traditional computational approaches, namely descriptor-based approaches, are slow but effective in low-data scenarios. Modern approaches use machine learning (ML), which is faster but often requires a lot of data to approach the performance of descriptor-based methods. This research leverages a special data-efficient Generative Adversarial Network (GAN) architecture to artificially …
Solubility Characterization Of Organic Molecules For Aqueous Organic Redox Flow Batteries, 2024 California Polytechnic State University, San Luis Obispo
Solubility Characterization Of Organic Molecules For Aqueous Organic Redox Flow Batteries, Anthony W. Ferrell, Harkeerith K. Vij, Seamus D. Jones
College of Engineering Summer Undergraduate Research Program
The major obstacle to renewable energy sources is a lack of long-term energy storage capabilities. Energy produced during the day dissipates, leaving insufficient electricity for at night. The goal of the project is to design an Aqueous Organic Redox Flow Battery (AORFB) to act as long-term energy storage. Work has been done using machine learning to identify suitable compounds for the batteries. In this work there was no indication as to the aqueous solubility of the molecules; this controls the device’s energy storage capabilities. We used a machine learning model to determine the aqueous solubility of slightly more than 3000 …
Mapping Of The Potential To Substitute Plastic In Food Packaging In Finnish Supermarkets, 2024 VTT Technical Research Centre of Finland Ltd.
Mapping Of The Potential To Substitute Plastic In Food Packaging In Finnish Supermarkets, Taina Lahtinen, Kirsi Kataja, Jari Viitanen, Vinay Kumar, Jussi Lahtinen, Ali Harlin
Journal of Applied Packaging Research
Single-use plastics (SUP), which are extensively utilized in food packaging, are one notable cause for the constantly growing littering issue. This novel study is one of the first attempts to systemically analyze food packaging data to reveal the potential for plastic packaging material reduction or substitution by utilizing a primary packaging material summary of single items sold in Finnish supermarkets. The outcome of the study indicates considerable dissimilarities among product groups concerning used packaging materials, weight, share of plastic, and sales volume. The analysis identified sweets and ready-to-eat meals as product groups for which there is a clear need, but …
Hollow Connecting Rod Thin Wall Austempered Ductile Iron (Twadi) For Manufacturing Light Weight Components, 2024 Department of Metallurgical and Materials Engineering, Faculty of Engineering, Universitas Indonesia, Depok, West Java, 16424, Indonesia
Hollow Connecting Rod Thin Wall Austempered Ductile Iron (Twadi) For Manufacturing Light Weight Components, Ricardina Freitas Da Silva, Bambang Suharno, Rianti Dewi Sulamet-Ariobimo
Journal of Materials Exploration and Findings
Efforts made by the automotive industry to reduce energy consumption have encouraged researchers to carry out various studies. One way is to make components lighter by casting thin wall austempered ductile iron (TWADI). Reducing the weight of components such as connecting rods (conrod) will result in lower energy consumption, but provided that these components still meet standards in terms of mechanical properties and microstructure or even exceed them. In this research, design optimization was applied to conrod by making the area I-beam zero mm (hollow), with hope that it can replace conrod Vespa PX-150. While the manufacturing process is divided …
Effect Of Impurities In Supercritical Co2 Environment On Steel Corrosion Behavior – An Overview, 2024 Department of Metallurgical and Materials Engineering, Faculty of Engineering, Universitas Indonesia, Depok, West Java, 16424, Indonesia
Effect Of Impurities In Supercritical Co2 Environment On Steel Corrosion Behavior – An Overview, Shilla Rizqi Widianto, Johny Wahyuadi Soedarsono, Rini Riastuti, Badrul Munir
Journal of Materials Exploration and Findings
Carbon capture, utilization, and storage (CCUS) technology is one of the available technologies to reduce presence of greenhouse gasses. Implementation of CCUS technology strongly relates with the CO2 transportation from the capturing facility to the storage in the geological reservoir. The most economical method for large-scale and long-distance CO2 transportation is using pipeline in supercritical phase. Moreover, presence of impurities such as water, O2, SO2, H2S, NO2 may cause detrimental effect towards carbon steel pipeline. This paper intends to provide an initial information for supercritical CO2 pipeline material selection, which …
Root Cause Analysis Of Leakage Tube Boiler: A Study Case, 2024 Department of Metallurgical and Materials Engineering, Faculty of Engineering, Universitas Indonesia, Depok, West Java, 16424, Indonesia
Root Cause Analysis Of Leakage Tube Boiler: A Study Case, Lydia Kartika Basaria Sitompul, Dedi Priadi
Journal of Materials Exploration and Findings
Oil and gas industry can have catastrophic implications for human life, the environment, and the economy. This paper investigated failure analysis using root cause analysis especially for boiler tube leakage of Heat Exchanger. Identify the issue using microscopic examination and energy dispersive x-ray analysis were conducted on the tube inside and outside surface to determine root cause of the failure. The formation of a protective film in the aluminum-brass tube during the starting stage is very important for ensuring adequate film protection throughout the service life of the heat exchanger. During this stage, exposure to unpolluted water is essential. The …
Implementation Of Machine Learning Using Deep Neural Networks To Estimate The Failure Risk Caused By Leakage In Pressure Relief Devices, 2024 Department of Metallurgical and Materials Engineering, Faculty of Engineering, Universitas Indonesia, Depok, West Java, 16424, Indonesia
Implementation Of Machine Learning Using Deep Neural Networks To Estimate The Failure Risk Caused By Leakage In Pressure Relief Devices, Adi Yudho Wijayanto, Yossi Andreano, M. Ali Yafi Rizky, Dedi Priadi
Journal of Materials Exploration and Findings
The primary objective of deploying Pressure Relief Device (PRD) equipment is to ensure the safety of pressure vessels within a pressurized system. Over time, PRD equipment may degrade and fail to perform its intended function, which must be identified as a failure mode. To mitigate potential risks associated with this, it is recommended that an approach such as risk-based inspection (RBI) be implemented. Despite the widespread adoption of RBI, the method relies on qualitative techniques, leading to significant variations in equipment risk assessments. This study proposes a novel risk analysis method that uses deep learning-based machine learning to develop a …
Analysis Risk Based Inspection Api 581 On Lpg Spherical Tank At Pt. Xyz, 2024 Department of Metallurgical and Materials Engineering, Faculty of Engineering, Universitas Indonesia, Depok, West Java, 16424, Indonesia
Analysis Risk Based Inspection Api 581 On Lpg Spherical Tank At Pt. Xyz, Sigit Trahmawan, Eddy Sumarno Siradj, Jaka Fajar Fatriansyah
Journal of Materials Exploration and Findings
Liquified petroleum gas (LPG) spherical tanks are pressure vessel equipment for storing fuel gas products. The high pressure along with the fuel gas inside as flammable and combustible substance means that this equipment might result major accident hazard such as explosion, fires and environmental pollution. This study is aimed calculated and mitigate risk on 500 metric ton capacity LPG spherical tank using Risk-based inspection (RBI) analysis method that makes risk as its foundation. This RBI method uses quantitative analysis referring to API 581 to determine the risk of LPG Spherical Tank by determining the probability of failure (PoF) and the …
Functional Properties Of Bulk And Meta-Material High Entropy Alloys, 2024 University of Tennessee, Knoxville
Functional Properties Of Bulk And Meta-Material High Entropy Alloys, Cameron Jorgensen
Doctoral Dissertations
High Entropy Alloys (HEAs) are a class of material which is well-known for their high-temperature mechanical strength and corrosion resistance. In these materials, the entropy of mixing is used to encourage alloying between elements which are typically immiscible, sometimes described as alloying beyond the Hume-Rothery Rules. Specifically, the entropy of mixing is increased by including multiple elements on a single lattice site, increasing the free energy cost associated with phase separation. In the HEA community, this ‘high entropy effect’ is typically associated with alloy containing five or more elements. Achieving alloying between immiscible elements generally means the atomic size and/or …
In Situ Direct-Write Materials Processing Methods In Electron Microscopes, 2024 University of Tennessee, Knoxville
In Situ Direct-Write Materials Processing Methods In Electron Microscopes, John Lasseter
Doctoral Dissertations
Focused beam induced processing holds great promise for advanced nanoscale device design and prototyping but often has severe limitations in material quality, purity and compatibility. In particular focused electron beam induced deposition (FEBID) can create 3D nanostructures of extremely complex geometries, but the deposited material purity is often very low (< 10% metal). Ex situ functionalization processes, such as sputter coating, do not conformally coat the nanostructures but instead apply pure material from the top down. Here, a laser based photothermal coating method leveraging the geometry-dependent thermal transport properties is used to apply high-quality pure material conformally coat the exposed nanostructures and …
Process-Property-Structure Relationships In Advanced Rare Earth Magnet Manufacturing: Towards Enhanced Performance And Developing Application, 2024 University of Tennessee, Knoxville
Process-Property-Structure Relationships In Advanced Rare Earth Magnet Manufacturing: Towards Enhanced Performance And Developing Application, Kaustubh Vidyadhar Mungale
Doctoral Dissertations
This research aims to study advanced rare earth magnet manufacturing, focusing on the structure-process-property relationships that govern their performance and applications. Rare earth minerals are classified as critical materials because they are essential in manufacturing products across numerous cutting-edge technologies including electric vehicles, renewable energy systems, and high-performance electronics.
Bonded magnets are composites with permanent magnet powder embedded in a polymer matrix. Finely powdered (3-300 microns) rare earth based intermetallics such as neodymium iron boron (NdFeB) and samarium iron nitride (SmFeN) are blended with engineering polymers such as epoxy, polyamides (PA6/PA12) and polyphenylene sulfide (PPS), followed by molding the compound …
Fabrication And Characterization Of Lignin–Pva Hydrogels With Tunable Network Structures, 2024 Clemson University
Fabrication And Characterization Of Lignin–Pva Hydrogels With Tunable Network Structures, Keturah Bethel
All Dissertations
The ability to directly tune the crosslinked network structure of hydrogels is crucial for their functional applications in various fields, such as water filtration, protein separation, and tissue engineering. By controlling the crosslink density of the hydrogel, one can directly alter the mesh size – i.e., the end-to-end distance between crosslink junctions – and, subsequently, directly alter the hydrogel performance. This work discusses the fabrication and characterization of soft composites containing the biopolymer, lignin, are discussed. Precisely, physically-crosslinked composite lignin–Poly(vinyl alcohol) (PVA) hydrogels were fabricated via the freeze-thaw (F/T) pathway, whereby solutions containing specified amounts of PVA and lignin were …
On The Structure, Energy, And Segregation Behavior Of Grain Boundaries In Metallic Systems, 2024 Clemson University
On The Structure, Energy, And Segregation Behavior Of Grain Boundaries In Metallic Systems, Yasir Mahmood
All Dissertations
Nearly all structural metallic systems are multi-component polycrystalline aggregates; their microstructures are composed of crystalline grains that are internally joined at grain boundaries (GBs). This thesis focuses on GB structure, energy, and chemistry, as these greatly influence many material properties and processes, including boundary dynamics during processing treatments or under operating conditions.
Using atomistic simulations, we examine the impact of metastable GB structures on solute segregation. A wide range of GB geometries and metastable structures are used in our study. The Al-Mg alloy is used because it is of interest for light weighting. The atomistic simulation results are used to …
Local Charge Distortion Due To Cr In Ni-Based Concentrated Alloys, 2024 Clemson University
Local Charge Distortion Due To Cr In Ni-Based Concentrated Alloys, Jacob Fischer
All Theses
Due to the presence of multiple elements consisting of a range of atomic radii, local lattice distortion (LLD) is commonly observed in concentrated (and high entropy) alloys. However, since these elements also have diverse electronegativities, recent works show that atoms can have a range of atomic charges. In this work, using density functional theory (DFT), we investigate electronic charge distribution in face centered cubic (FCC) Ni-based alloys and find significant charge-density distortion in HEAs. Specifically, Cr atoms have large charge density distortion that results in a wide range of bond lengths, atomic charges, and electronic density of states in Cr-containing …
Predicting The Ductility Of Tungsten Based Bcc Refractory High Entropy Alloys: A Computational Science Driven Study, 2024 Clemson University
Predicting The Ductility Of Tungsten Based Bcc Refractory High Entropy Alloys: A Computational Science Driven Study, Akshay Korpe
All Theses
Bcc refractory high entropy alloys (HEAs) are a relatively new category of metallic alloys that promise excellent irradiation resistance and strength retention at high temperatures but exhibit brittle behavior at room temperatures limiting their formability. Understanding the deformation mechanisms and predicting their ductility at room temperature is a topic of interest in contemporary research.
In this work, multiple independent ductility criteria for quantifying the ductility of these HEAs were studied, calculated and compared using Density Functional Theory (DFT) calculations and continuum mechanics frameworks. These ductility parameters were calculated for various W-Ta-Cr-V alloys and the trends were analyzed for each criteria …
Preparation Of Β-Ni (Oh)2 Nanosheet–Modified Glassy Carbon For Pseudocapacitors, 2024 Department of Chemistry, Faculty of Mathematics and Natural Sciences, Universitas Indonesia, Depok 16424, Indonesia
Preparation Of Β-Ni (Oh)2 Nanosheet–Modified Glassy Carbon For Pseudocapacitors, Muhammad Buchari Setia Putra, Aliyah Aliyah, Afiten Rahmin Sanjaya, Respati Kevin Pramadewandaru, Hoeil Chung, Tribidasari Anggraningrum Ivandini
Makara Journal of Science
β-Nickel hydroxide (Ni(OH)2) nanosheet–modified glassy carbon for pseudocapacitors was successfully prepared. The nanosheets were synthesized via a conventional growth seeding method combined with hydrothermal treatment. Transmission electron microscopy (TEM) characterization indicated the hexagonal structure of the nanosheets of around 15 nm in size, and X-ray diffraction (XRD) pattern confirmed the β-phase lattice crystal. These nanosheets used to modify the glassy carbon surface, increased the electroactive surface area by around 15 times. Furthermore, electrochemical investigation of the modified glassy carbon revealed an excellent performance and a specific capacitance of 628.01 F g−1 at a 1 A g−1 …
Spin And Charge Transport In Metallic Ferrimagnets And Disordered Magnetic Oxides, 2024 University of Denver
Spin And Charge Transport In Metallic Ferrimagnets And Disordered Magnetic Oxides, Leopoldo A. Hernandez
Electronic Theses and Dissertations
Recent efforts have been exploring the use of thin film synthetic ferrimagnets and disordered magnetic oxides for applications in spintronic devices. Due to the antiferromagnetic exchange interaction, ferrimagnetic materials offer the ultrafast dynamics of the antiferromagnetic exchange, with a net magnetization that can be influenced externally. With two, or more, competing ferromagnet sublattices, interesting properties arise that depend on the final magnetic landscape after growth of the material and it’s inherent magnetic anisotropy energies. Properties such as magnetic compensation temperatures, and perpendicular magnetic anisotropy are attractive for applications in spintronic memory and logic devices, some already being implemented in MRAM …
Wild Joy: An Exploration In Queer Spatial Dynamics, 2024 Rhode Island School of Design
Wild Joy: An Exploration In Queer Spatial Dynamics, Kipper Thomas Reinsmith
Masters Theses
What does it mean to feel represented in a space?
What does a trans space look like?
How can we queer our interior spaces?
Our world is crafted by the many designers that have come before us. These systems, products, and spaces are built upon assumptions of the bodies that will use and occupy them—namely cisgender, able-bodied, straight folks.
Designing and creating objects as a trans person is an act of radical nature. To take up space, to design for trans luxury, for the sake of beauty, for joy itself, feels counterintuitive to the narratives we’ve been served: that of …
Electrochemical Nitrate Reduction To Ammonia On Cu Based Nanoparticles Using Quantum Mechanical Simulations, 2024 New Jersey Institute of Technology
Electrochemical Nitrate Reduction To Ammonia On Cu Based Nanoparticles Using Quantum Mechanical Simulations, Kathan Bhavin Shukla
Theses
Nitrate reduction to ammonia (NRA) is critical for environmental remediation and energy conservation, as it can remove harmful nitrate (NO3-) from water sources while producing usable ammonia (NH3). Cu represents one of the most promising non-noble-metal NRA electrocatalysts. However, the intrinsic catalytic activity of Cu facets and their influence under different pH conditions remain unclear, particularly in the presence of ions commonly found in wastewater such as Cl-, Na+, Mg2+, and Ca2+. Using density functional theory (DFT) calculations, we evaluated the nitrate reduction to ammonia (NRA) pathways …
Discovery Of Nanostructured Material Properties For Advanced Polymeric Systems, 2024 University of Maine
Discovery Of Nanostructured Material Properties For Advanced Polymeric Systems, Colton Lee Duprey
Electronic Theses and Dissertations
Polymer science has become a well-studied field in recent years. Their tunability, functionalization, and unique intermolecular reactions make them a significant area of interest for materials science. The production and research of polymeric materials has increased ever since their invention, and does look to be slowing down currently. While polymers may be considered macromolecules, their properties can be heavily influenced by the incorporation of nanostructures. Despite their small dimensions, nanostructured materials can have substantial impacts on these systems, even at small loading percentages. Nanomaterials have also become a topic of increasingly large interest in research over the last few decades. …