Publications related to Rockwell scale

Micromechanics of oxide inclusions in ferrous alloys

Oxide inclusions are inevitably present in steel as a direct consequence of the steelmaking process; as a result, a cubic centimetre of modern steel will generally contain about a million of these hard and brittle micrometre-sized ceramic particles. Inclus ...

EPFL2023

Effect of Mo addition on the mechanical and tribological properties of magnetron sputtered TiN films

Sami Rtimi

Ternary-based titanium nitride (TiN) thin films have drawn attention toward rational applications due to their wear resistance, high hardness, and corrosion resistance. The influence of Mo content on the structural, tribo-logical, and mechanical properties ...

ELSEVIER SCIENCE SA2023

Influence of Hf on the heat treatment response of additively manufactured Ni-base superalloy CM247LC

Roland Logé, Jamasp Jhabvala, Christian Leinenbach, Hossein Ghasemi Tabasi, Shreyas Sanjay Joglekar

The influence of Hf on the heat treatment response of a Laser Powder Bed Fusion (L-PBF) fabricated Ni-base superalloy was investigated. A Hf-free version of CM247LC, CM247LC NHf, and CM247LC (similar to 1.4 wt% Hf) were subjected to identical thermal treat ...

ELSEVIER SCIENCE INC2021

Mechanical properties of a balsa wood veneer structural sandwich core material

Thomas Keller, Anastasios Vassilopoulos, Niloufar Vahedi

Balsa wood is an appropriate core material for structural sandwich applications due to its high strength- and stiffness-to-weight ratios. However, the mechanical properties vary considerably owing to the inherent scattering of natural wood materials. One a ...

2020

Rigidity of hemispherical elastic gridshells under point load indentation

Pedro Miguel Nunes Pereira de Almeida Reis, Changyeob Baek

We present results from physical and numerical experiments on the rigidity of hemispherical gridshells under point load indentation. By systematically exploring the relevant parameters of the system, we provide a scaling law for the rigidity of elastic gri ...

PERGAMON-ELSEVIER SCIENCE LTD2019

Depth-dependent mechanical properties of human articular cartilage obtained by indentation measurements

Pierre-Etienne Bourban, Lee Ann Laurent-Applegate, Matteo Gregorio Modesto Marascio, Robin Martin, Jens Antons

Emerging 3D printing technology permits innovative approaches to manufacture cartilage scaffolds associated with layer-by-layer mechanical property adaptation. However, information about gradients of mechanical properties in human articular cartilage is li ...

2018

Low Carbon Pathways for Structural Design

Catherine Elvire L. De Wolf

To avoid an increase in greenhouse gas emissions, a depletion of resources, and waste accumulation, structural engineers have a major role to play in low carbon structural design. For example, cement- based materials represent one-third of all materials ex ...

2018

Pre-dismantling THM modelling of the FEBEX in situ experiment

Lyesse Laloui, Yafei Qiao, Alessio Ferrari

FEBEX (Full-scale Engineered Barrier Experiment in Crystalline Host Rock) is a research and demonstration project that was initiated by ENRESA (Spain). The aim of the project is to study the behaviour of near-field components in a repository for high-level ...

NAGRA2017

NbTiN thin films deposited by hybrid HiPIMS/DC magnetron co-sputtering

Rosendo Sanjines, Alireza Karimi, Ayat Karimi, Samy Adjam, Daniela Dumitriu La Grange

Nb1 - xTixNy thin films (with 0

Elsevier Science Sa2016

Hardness and microstructural variation of Al-Mg-Mn-Sc-Zr alloy

Pierre Burdet

Variations of Vickers hardness were observed in Al-Mg-Mn alloy and Al-Mg-Mn-Sc-Zr alloy at different ageing times, ranging from a peak value of 81.2 HV at 54 ks down to 67.4 HV at 360 ks, below the initial hardness value, 71.8 HV at 0 ks for the case of Al ...

Pergamon-Elsevier Science Ltd2016

LDV survey of cavitation and resonance effect on the precessing vortex rope dynamics in the draft tube of Francis turbines

François Avellan, Arthur Tristan Favrel, Christian Landry, Keita Yamamoto

The large-scale penetration of the electrical grid by intermittent renewable energy sources requires a continuous operating range extension of hydropower plants. This causes the formation of unfavourable flow patterns in the draft tube of turbines and pump ...

Springer Verlag2016

Hollow Cylinder Tests on Boom Clay: Modelling of Strain Localization in the Anisotropic Excavation Damaged Zone

Vincent Labiouse, Bertrand François

Boom Clay is extensively studied as a potential candidate to host underground nuclear waste disposal in Belgium. To guarantee the safety of such a disposal, the mechanical behaviour of the clay during gallery excavation must be properly predicted. In that ...

Springer Verlag2014

On determination of the constitutive behavior of tempered martensitic steels from micro-indentations: Application to Eurofer97 steel

Philippe Spätig, Nazar Ilchuk

This paper proposes a simple but powerful approach to determine the constitutive equation of tempered martensitic steels from micro-hardness tests. Finite element simulations were used to investigate the plastic flow in the contact region between the tip a ...

Elsevier Science Bv2013

Editorial: Failure in multiphase geomaterials

Lyesse Laloui

The contributions assembled in the present volume proceed from the lectures of the 2009 ALERT Geomaterials School devoted to the Failure in the multiphase geomaterials. The multiphase behaviour of geomaterials used to be mainly considered from the point of ...

2009

A displacement sensing nanoindentation study of tribo-mechanical properties of the Ni-Co system

Andrzej Kulik

An analysis of the tribo-mechanical properties of the Ni-Co system, at the submicrometric contact scale, is conducted using displacement sensing nanoindentation. In particular, the influence of contact depth and surface finishing methods on the hardness, H ...

2008

Damage evolution in coated cemented carbides under compressive contact loads

Maria-Simona Moldovan

This work deals principally with two important issues and their interrelation: the evolution of damage in coated cemented carbide tools used for cold forming, and the assessment of mechanical behavior of cemented carbides under compressive contact loads. D ...

EPFL2008

Size effects in the fatigue behavior of welded tubular bridge joints

Alain Nussbaumer, Luís Costa Borges

Tubular space trusses for bridge applications use thick-walled tubes. The reduction in fatigue resistance due to geometrical size effects is thus an important issue. In order to carry out a thorough study, both fatigue tests on large-scale specimens and ad ...

Wiley-Blackwell2008

Indentation fracture of gallium arsenide

Cédric Pouvreau

The scribe and break technique (or dicing) is a widely employed method in the industry of semiconductors to separate infrared laser diodes made from gallium arsenide (GaAs). The scribing step allows to create a precursor crack which is then propagated duri ...

EPFL2007

Assessment of mechanical properties using instrumented indentation and inverse methods

Sven Nico Stauss

The present work deals with the determination of mechanical properties of materials using instrumented indentation techniques. The main advantage of indentation testing is that it is relatively simple to perform and does not need any special and time-consu ...

EPFL2006