Publications related to Flux (metallurgy)

Liquid metal infiltration of silicon based alloys into porous carbonaceous materials Part-III: Experimental verification of conversion products and infiltration depth by infiltration of Si-Zr alloy into mixed SiC/ graphite preforms

Ludger Weber, Annapaola Parrilli, Caroline Hain, Alberto Ortona, Manoj Kondibhau Naikade

Porous carbonaceous preforms, made from graphite and silicon carbide (SiC) powders, with varying graphite powder mass fractions and particle sizes, were infiltrated at 1500 degrees C and 1700 degrees C by Si-8 at. pct Zr alloy to produce dense Si-Zr-SiC co ...

ELSEVIER SCI LTD2023

A low-temperature prismatic slip instability in Mg understood using machine learning potentials

William Curtin, Xin Liu, Binglun Yin, Tao Liu

Prismatic slip in magnesium at temperatures T

PERGAMON-ELSEVIER SCIENCE LTD2023

Neural Network Potentials for Age Hardening Aluminum Alloys

Daniel John Gilles Marchand

High-strength metal alloys achieve their performance via careful control of precipitates and solutes. The nucleation, growth, and kinetics of precipitation, and the resulting mechanical properties, are inherently atomic scale phenomena, particularly during ...

EPFL2022

Seasonal Aerosol Acidity, Liquid Water Content and Their Impact on Fine Urban Aerosol in SE Canada

Athanasios Nenes, Andrea Mario Arangio

This study explores the drivers of aerosol pH and their impact on the inorganic fraction and mass of aerosol in the S.E. Canadian urban environments of Hamilton and Toronto, Ontario. We find that inter-seasonal pH variability is mostly driven by temperatur ...

MDPI2022

Surface energy contributions to the work of infiltration in metal matrix composite processing

Andreas Mortensen, Gionata Schneider

The work needed to mechanically drive molten metal into a porous solid preform when producing a composite material by infiltration can significantly exceed the energy change required for thermodynamically reversible infiltration. We measure, by quantitativ ...

2021

Hybrid soft-rigid electrical interconnection system

Stéphanie Lacour, Giuseppe Schiavone, Florian Dylan Fallegger

It is disclosed an electrical interconnection system comprising: i) an interconnection board comprising an intrinsically non elastic substrate, said substrate having a first face and an opposed second face, and at least one conductive track on and/or withi ...

2021

Study and characterization of silicon metal alloys systems for the reactive infiltration process of ceramic matrix composites

Manoj Kondibhau Naikade

Silicon infiltrated silicon carbide (SiSiC) is one of the most promising and economical non-oxide ceramic matrix composites for high-temperature structural applications. In recent years infiltration by Si-alloys instead of pure Si has become popular to avo ...

EPFL2021

Machine learning for metallurgy I. A neural-network potential for Al-Cu

William Curtin, Albert Johann Glensk, Daniel John Gilles Marchand, Abhinav Jain

High-strength metal alloys achieve their performance via careful control of precipitates and solutes. The nucleation, growth, and kinetics of precipitation, and the resulting mechanical properties, are inherently atomic scale phenomena, particularly during ...

2020

Machine learning for metallurgy II. A neural-network potential for magnesium

William Curtin, Binglun Yin, Eleanor Yi Kei Mak

Interatomic potentials are essential for studying fundamental mechanisms of deformation and failure in metals and alloys because the relevant defects (dislocations, cracks, etc.) are far above the scales accessible to first-principles studies. Existing pot ...

2020

Effect of cooling conditions on microstructures and mechanical behaviors of reheated low-carbon weld metals

Roland Logé, Cyril Cayron, Gaojun Mao, Rui Cao

An investigation was conducted to systematically explore the relationships among microstructure evolution, continuous cooling transformation kinetics, and mechanical properties development in a low-carbon reheated weld metal (0.052C-1.5Mn-0.3Si-0.7Cr-0.8Mo ...

ELSEVIER SCIENCE SA2019

Bulk single-crystal growth of the theoretically predicted magnetic Weyl semimetals RAlGe (R = Pr, Ce)

Jonathan White, Neeraj Kumar

We explore two methods for single-crystal growth of the theoretically proposed magnetic Weyl semimetals RAlGe (R = Pr, Ce), which prove that a floating-zone technique, being both crucible- and flux-free, is crucial to obtain perfectly stoichiometric RAlGe ...

AMER PHYSICAL SOC2019

A Large Range of Motion 3D MEMS Scanner With Five Degrees of Freedom

Matthias Imboden

Here, we discuss a novel, mixed mode 3D XYZ scanner built within a single foundry process. The device has a large range of motion in X, Y, and Z (14.1 mu m in X and Y and 97.9 mu m in Z) and can also rotate about two axes (7.4 degrees), making it a 5 degre ...

Institute of Electrical and Electronics Engineers2019

'Green' Cr(iii)-glycine electrolyte for the production of FeCrNi coatings: electrodeposition mechanisms and role of by-products in terms of coating composition and microstructure

Stefano Mischler, Johann Michler, Enrico Bertero

The electrodeposition of stainless steel-like FeCrNi alloys for miniaturised devices is appealing as it would allow combining excellent material properties (e.g. corrosion resistance, hardness, biocompatibility) at low-cost. However, conventional baths oft ...

2019

Dependence of the turbulent particle flux on hydrogen isotopes induced by collisionality

Olivier Sauter, Ambrogio Fasoli, Basil Duval, Stefano Coda, Martinus Gijs, Jonathan Graves, Yves Martin, Duccio Testa, Patrick Blanchard, Bruno Emanuel Ferreira De Sousa Correia, Alessandro Pau, Pierre-Thomas Paul Brun, Cristian Sommariva, Henri Weisen, Richard Pitts, Sun Hee Kim, Yann Camenen, Jan Horacek, Javier García Hernández, Marco Wischmeier, Mikhail Maslov, Nicola Vianello, Miguel Fernández Ruiz, Federico Nespoli, Antonio José Pereira de Figueiredo, Liang Yao, Yao Zhou, David Pfefferlé, Dalziel Joseph Wilson, Robin Humphry-Baker, Davide Galassi, Emiliano Fable, José Pedro Rebelo Ferreira Marques, Jonathan Marc Philippe Faustin, Ana Francisca Leal Silva Soares, Daniel Scott Alessi, Hamish William Patten, Arnout Lodewijk M Beckers, Julio Rodriguez, Samuel Lanthaler, , , , , , , , ,

Groundwater dynamics in subterranean estuaries of coastal unconfined aquifers: Controls on submarine groundwater discharge and chemical inputs to the ocean

David Andrew Barry, Clare Robinson

Sustainable coastal resource management requires sound understanding of interactions between coastal unconfined aquifers and the ocean as these interactions influence the flux of chemicals to the coastal ocean and the availability of fresh groundwater reso ...

2018

Study on Bainite/Martensite Transformation in Reheated Weld Metals

Roland Logé, Cyril Cayron, Gaojun Mao, Rui Cao

A new combination of laser scanning confocal microscope (LSCM) and electron backscattering diffraction (EBSD) with a field-emission scanning electron microscope (SEM) is utilized to study the mechanism of bainite transformation in reheated low carbon baini ...

TRANS TECH PUBLICATIONS LTD2018

An experimental study on flow boiling pressure drop in multi-microchannel evaporators with different refrigerants

John Richard Thome, Houxue Huang

A key parameter in designing two-phase flow systems for the cooling of high heat flux electronics is the pressure drop in microchannel evaporators. As a result, an experimental study was performed to investigate the flow boiling pressure drop of refrigeran ...

Elsevier Science Inc2017

Early-stage oxidation behavior at high temperatures of SiSiC cellular architectures in a porous burner

Sophia Haussener, Ehsan Rezaei, Alberto Ortona

Early stage oxidation behavior of SiSiC cellular lattices with different cell types was studied at 1400 degrees C in two different environments: a porous burner and an electric furnace with stagnant air. Oxidation and silicon alloy bead formation were obse ...

Elsevier2016

Flow Boiling Pressure Drop and Heat Transfer of Refrigerants in Multi-microchannel Evaporators under Steady and Transient States

Houxue Huang

Multi-microchannel evaporators used for the cooling of high heat flux electronics have been of interest to both industry and academia for more than a decade. Such interest has sparked a large number of research studies on the flow boiling pressure drop and ...

EPFL2016

Multi-scale modeling of elasto-plastic response of SnAgCu lead-free solder alloys at different ageing conditions: Effect of microstructure evolution, particle size effects and interfacial failure

John Botsis, Joël Cugnoni, Milad Maleki

In microelectronics applications, SnAgCu lead-free solder joints play the important role of ensuring both the mechanical and electrical integrity of the components. In such applications, the SnAgCu joints are subjected to elevated homologous temperatures f ...

Elsevier2016