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Investigation Of Deformation Behavior Of Additively Manufactured Aisi 316l Stainless Steel With In Situ Micro-Compression Testing, Fei Teng, Ching-Heng Shiau, Cheng Sun, Robert C. O'Brien, Michael D. Mcmurtrey Sep 2023

Investigation Of Deformation Behavior Of Additively Manufactured Aisi 316l Stainless Steel With In Situ Micro-Compression Testing, Fei Teng, Ching-Heng Shiau, Cheng Sun, Robert C. O'Brien, Michael D. Mcmurtrey

Materials Science and Engineering Faculty Publications and Presentations

Additive manufacturing techniques are being used more and more to perform the precise fabrication of engineering components with complex geometries. The heterogeneity of additively manufactured microstructures deteriorates the mechanical integrity of products. In this paper, we printed AISI 316L stainless steel using the additive manufacturing technique of laser metal deposition. Both single-phase and dual-phase substructures were formed in the grain interiors. Electron backscatter diffraction and energy-dispersive X-ray spectroscopy indicate that Si, Mo, S, Cr were enriched, while Fe was depleted along the substructure boundaries. In situ micro-compression testing was performed at room temperature along the [001] orientation. The dual-phase substructures …


Effect Of Crystal Quality On Twinning Stress In Ni–Mn–Ga Magnetic Shape Memory Alloys, Andrew Armstrong, Peter Müllner Sep 2021

Effect Of Crystal Quality On Twinning Stress In Ni–Mn–Ga Magnetic Shape Memory Alloys, Andrew Armstrong, Peter Müllner

Materials Science and Engineering Faculty Publications and Presentations

Low twinning stress (TS) is a prerequisite for magnetic shape memory functionality in ferromagnetic martensites. We compare Ni50Mn28Ga22 (nominal at.%) single crystals from four different producers to reveal the effect of crystal quality on the TS. Near the reverse martensite transformation, the TS is generally low, about 1 MPa, regardless of mosaicity of up to 1.7° and chemical composition deviations of up to 2 at.% of Mn. Pure type I and type II twin boundaries occur in crystals with smooth chemical composition gradients. The corresponding temperature dependences of TS follow universal linear trends with the …


Reference Diffraction Patterns, Microstructure, And Pore-Size Distribution For The Copper (Ii) Benzene-1,3,5-Tricarboxylate Metal Organic Framework (Cu-Btc) Compounds, L. Li, I. Williamson Mar 2015

Reference Diffraction Patterns, Microstructure, And Pore-Size Distribution For The Copper (Ii) Benzene-1,3,5-Tricarboxylate Metal Organic Framework (Cu-Btc) Compounds, L. Li, I. Williamson

Materials Science and Engineering Faculty Publications and Presentations

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Effect Of Fluxing Additive On Sintering Temperature, Microstructure And Properties Of Batio3, Yaseen Iqbal, Asad Jamal, Riaz Ullah, M. Naeem Khan, Rick Ubic Jun 2012

Effect Of Fluxing Additive On Sintering Temperature, Microstructure And Properties Of Batio3, Yaseen Iqbal, Asad Jamal, Riaz Ullah, M. Naeem Khan, Rick Ubic

Materials Science and Engineering Faculty Publications and Presentations

Various fluxing materials are added to technical ceramics in an attempt to lower their sintering temperatures and make their processing economical. The effect of 0·3wt% Li2CO3 addition on the phase, microstructure, phase transition temperatures and dielectric properties of BaTiO3 was investigated in the present study. The addition of 0·3wt% Li2CO3 was observed to lower the optimum sintering temperature by ∼200C with no second phase formation and cause a five-fold reduction in grain size. Rhombohedral-to-orthorhombic and tetragonal-to-cubic phase transitions at the expected temperatures were evident from the Raman spectra, but the orthorhombic-totetragonal phase transition …


Repairing Mixed-Conducting, Ceramic Electrolyte Films, Kevin Tolman, Izaak Williamson, Kokfoong Chan Apr 2012

Repairing Mixed-Conducting, Ceramic Electrolyte Films, Kevin Tolman, Izaak Williamson, Kokfoong Chan

College of Engineering Poster Presentations

Ceramatec, Inc. develops ceramic-electrolyte thin films for gas separation/purification technologies. Specific ions (e.g., oxygen) can be selectively diffused through these films in order to obtain a desired product, such as syngas or pure O2. During production, residual stresses develop within the films which induce defects, such as pinholes, micro-cracks, and other sources of leaks, that allow gas contamination. To improve large-scale film production yield, four application techniques were analyzed for their feasibility of restoring the integrity of the films. Controlled, uniform defects were introduced to the films using a microindenter to enable an effective comparison of application techniques …


Determination Of Three-Dimensional Grain Boundary Connectivity From Two-Dimensional Microstructures, Megan Frary Aug 2007

Determination Of Three-Dimensional Grain Boundary Connectivity From Two-Dimensional Microstructures, Megan Frary

Materials Science and Engineering Faculty Publications and Presentations

The connectivity of so-called "special" and "general" grain boundaries at a quadruple node is known to be nonrandom as a result of crystallographic constraints. Although a quadruple node is a three-dimensional feature, there exist two-dimensional features which are topologically identical. Therefore, the distribution of these two-dimensional features may be used to determine the three-dimensional connectivity. Computer simulations of a three-dimensional microstructure which is virtually serial sectioned are used to validate the proposed approach.