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Size, length, temperature and loading range effects on deformation response of NiTi SMA wire: an analytical study
Ni–Ti (Nitinol) wire is a novel material that possesses unique characteristics such as superelasticity, shape memory effect, recentering, high...
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Application of SMA wire in vibration mitigation of bridge stay cable: a state-of-the-art review
Stay cables in cable-stayed bridges experience vibrations due to wind, rain, and traffic-induced excitations and may suffer fatigue damage. Shape...
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Geochemical Features of the Waste Processing Plant Landfill Soil
Recycling, neutralization and storage of solid household waste is an urgent problem due to the constant growth of their accumulation. When they are... -
Influence of shape memory alloy and rice husk ash on the mechanical behavior of concrete
The increase in population and high demand for construction have prompted engineers to propose innovative solutions to meet these needs. Concrete, as...
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Characteristics and prediction of paleo-environment of Eocene Jatta Gypsum, Kohat Basin, Pakistan
The Kohat Basin is situated in the Himalayan foothills. The thick-bedded marine evaporite sequences formed when the Tethys Sea has been closed as a...
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Review of experimental and analytical techniques to determine H, C, N, and S solubility and metal–silicate partitioning during planetary differentiation
During their formation, terrestrial planets underwent a magma ocean phase during which their metallic cores segregated from their silicate mantles...
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Optical Properties of Transparent Crystals and Minerals
This chapter describes the properties of transparent crystals and minerals using the transmission polarization microscope, both in orthoscopic... -
Rock Breakage and Tools Performance During Rock Processing by Multidiameter Combination Saw with Different Diameters
To better understand the rock breakage mechanism and optimize tool performance during rock machining by multidiameter combination saw, the rock...
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Trace element partitioning between clinopyroxene, magnetite, ilmenite and ferrobasaltic to dacitic magmas: an experimental study on the role of oxygen fugacity and melt composition
Ilmenite-, magnetite- and clinopyroxene−melt trace element partition coefficients were investigated experimentally as a function of oxygen fugacity...
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Diffusion and partition coefficients of minor and trace elements in magnetite as a function of oxygen fugacity at 1150 ºC
Lattice diffusion coefficients and partition coefficients have been determined for Li, Mg, Al, Sc, Ti, Cr, V, Mn, Co, Ni, Cu, Zn, Ga, Y, Zr, Nb, Mo,...
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Tailoring the Mechanical Properties Through the Control of Heat Treatments in a Precipitation Hardening Metastable Stainless Steel
This research focusses on a complex precipitation (Ni 3 (Ti,Al)) hardenable metastable stainless steel. Dual phase (austenite, γ/martensite, α′) and...
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Trace-element analysis of mineral grains in Ryugu rock fragment sections by synchrotron-based confocal X-ray fluorescence
A fundamental parameter-based quantification scheme for confocal XRF was applied to sub-micron synchrotron radiation X-ray fluorescence (SR-XRF) data...
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Experimental formation of Pele’s hairs and tears at 1200°C under atmospheric pressure from natural alkali olivine basalt
The formation of Pele’s hairs and tears (PH and PT) is generally associated with fluid-charged rapid explosive basaltic volcanism on Earth’s surface....
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Geochronology, Geochemistry, and Sr-Nd-Hf Isotopes of the Diorite Porphyrites from the Weining Beishan Area, Ningxia Hui Autonomous Region: Constraints on Their Source and Tectonic Implications
The Weining Beishan area of Ningxia Hui Autonomous Region is located at on the western edge of the Helanshan tectonic belt, which is a tectonic joint...
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Lower Jurassic (Pliensbachian–Toarcian) marine paleoenvironment in Western Europe: sedimentology, geochemistry and organic petrology of the wells Mainzholzen and Wickensen, Hils Syncline, Lower Saxony Basin
Over the past few decades, Toarcian (Early Jurassic) black shale deposits of NW Europe have been extensively studied, and the possible global and...
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Technology, life histories and circulation of gold objects during the Middle Period (AD 400–1000): A perspective from the Atacama Desert, Chile
Studies of archaeological goldwork in the Americas are increasingly revealing a rich variety of context-specific ways in which gold items were...
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Metals and Alloys
This chapter draws attention metals and alloys used in construction. After explaining the differences between ferrous and nonferrous metals and... -
Principal Studies of the First Solid Material Formed in the Early Solar System: A Review
Abstract —This publication reviews principal recent studies of the earliest solid material in the Solar System: refractory objects, which include...
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Redox-dependent Ti stable isotope fractionation on the Moon: implications for current lunar magma ocean models
In terrestrial magmas titanium is predominantly tetravalent (Ti 4+ ), in contrast, lunar magmas are more reduced (IW-1) and hence approximately 10% of...
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The redox dependence of titanium isotope fractionation in synthetic Ti-rich lunar melts
Equilibria between Ti oxides and silicate melt lead to Ti isotope fractionation in terrestrial samples, with isotopically light Ti oxides and...