Zirconium content induced mitigation of mechanical anisotropy in 2:17 type SmCo magnets

2020 ◽  
Vol 38 (2) ◽  
pp. 182-187 ◽  
Author(s):  
Guanghui Yan ◽  
Zhuang Liu ◽  
Yanping Feng ◽  
Weixing Xia ◽  
Chaoyue Zhang ◽  
...  
Author(s):  
Linda C. Sawyer

Recent liquid crystalline polymer (LCP) research has sought to define structure-property relationships of these complex new materials. The two major types of LCPs, thermotropic and lyotropic LCPs, both exhibit effects of process history on the microstructure frozen into the solid state. The high mechanical anisotropy of the molecules favors formation of complex structures. Microscopy has been used to develop an understanding of these microstructures and to describe them in a fundamental structural model. Preparation methods used include microtomy, etching, fracture and sonication for study by optical and electron microscopy techniques, which have been described for polymers. The model accounts for the macrostructures and microstructures observed in highly oriented fibers and films.Rod-like liquid crystalline polymers produce oriented materials because they have extended chain structures in the solid state. These polymers have found application as high modulus fibers and films with unique properties due to the formation of ordered solutions (lyotropic) or melts (thermotropic) which transform easily into highly oriented, extended chain structures in the solid state.


Author(s):  
Patrik Dobroň ◽  
František Chmelík ◽  
Jan Bohlen ◽  
Kerstin Hantzsche ◽  
Dietmar Letzig ◽  
...  

Polymers ◽  
2021 ◽  
Vol 13 (10) ◽  
pp. 1566
Author(s):  
Oliver J. Pemble ◽  
Maria Bardosova ◽  
Ian M. Povey ◽  
Martyn E. Pemble

Chitosan-based films have a diverse range of potential applications but are currently limited in terms of commercial use due to a lack of methods specifically designed to produce thin films in high volumes. To address this limitation directly, hydrogels prepared from chitosan, chitosan-tetraethoxy silane, also known as tetraethyl orthosilicate (TEOS) and chitosan-glutaraldehyde have been used to prepare continuous thin films using a slot-die technique which is described in detail. By way of preliminary analysis of the resulting films for comparison purposes with films made by other methods, the mechanical strength of the films produced was assessed. It was found that as expected, the hybrid films made with TEOS and glutaraldehyde both show a higher yield strength than the films made with chitosan alone. In all cases, the mechanical properties of the films were found to compare very favorably with similar measurements reported in the literature. In order to assess the possible influence of the direction in which the hydrogel passes through the slot-die on the mechanical properties of the films, testing was performed on plain chitosan samples cut in a direction parallel to the direction of travel and perpendicular to this direction. It was found that there was no evidence of any mechanical anisotropy induced by the slot die process. The examples presented here serve to illustrate how the slot-die approach may be used to create high-volume, high-area chitosan-based films cheaply and rapidly. It is suggested that an approach of the type described here may facilitate the use of chitosan-based films for a wide range of important applications.


2021 ◽  
Vol 7 (11) ◽  
pp. eabe9446 ◽  
Author(s):  
Mark J. Mondrinos ◽  
Farid Alisafaei ◽  
Alex Y. Yi ◽  
Hossein Ahmadzadeh ◽  
Insu Lee ◽  
...  

Here, we present an approach to model and adapt the mechanical regulation of morphogenesis that uses contractile cells as sculptors of engineered tissue anisotropy in vitro. Our method uses heterobifunctional cross-linkers to create mechanical boundary constraints that guide surface-directed sculpting of cell-laden extracellular matrix hydrogel constructs. Using this approach, we engineered linearly aligned tissues with structural and mechanical anisotropy. A multiscale in silico model of the sculpting process was developed to reveal that cell contractility increases as a function of principal stress polarization in anisotropic tissues. We also show that the anisotropic biophysical microenvironment of linearly aligned tissues potentiates soluble factor-mediated tenogenic and myogenic differentiation of mesenchymal stem cells. The application of our method is demonstrated by (i) skeletal muscle arrays to screen therapeutic modulators of acute oxidative injury and (ii) a 3D microphysiological model of lung cancer cachexia to study inflammatory and oxidative muscle injury induced by tumor-derived signals.


Materials ◽  
2021 ◽  
Vol 14 (14) ◽  
pp. 3869
Author(s):  
Yu Liang ◽  
Jun Ma ◽  
Baogang Zhou ◽  
Wei Li

Mechanical anisotropy behaviors are investigated in slightly rolled Inconel718 alloy with string-like δ phase and carbides produced during various solid-solution and aging treatments. A weak anisotropy in the strengths and rupture properties at 650 °C is visible, whereas ductility, i.e., reduction in area (RA) and impact toughness (CVN), presents a sound anisotropy behavior. MC carbides promote the operation of slip systems and thus are conducive to weakening the strength anisotropy. The RA anisotropy mainly stems from high-density δ phase particles that provide more crack nucleation sites and stimulate rapid propagation because of the shorter bridge distance between micro-cracks at the rolling direction. In contrast, CVN anisotropy arises from both δ phase and carbides at a lower solid-solution temperature of 940 °C but only depends on carbides at 980 °C where the δ phase fully dissolves. Apart from dislocation motions operated at room temperature, the activated grain boundary processes are responsible for the weak anisotropy of rupture properties at the elevated temperature. This work provides a guideline for technological applications in the hot working processes for Inconel718 alloys.


Metals ◽  
2021 ◽  
Vol 11 (6) ◽  
pp. 966
Author(s):  
Qingle Tian ◽  
Kai Deng ◽  
Zhishuai Xu ◽  
Ke Han ◽  
Hongxing Zheng

Using a centrifugal casting method, along with deformation and aging, we produced a high-strength, low-anisotropy Al-Li plate. The electron probe microanalysis, transmission electron microscope, differential scanning calorimetry, and X-ray diffraction were used to clarify the evolution of strengthening phases. Experimental results showed that centrifugal-cast Al-Li plate consisted of intragrain δ′—(Al,Cu)3Li precipitate and interdendritic θ′—Al2Cu particles. After cold-rolling to a reduction ratio of 60% and annealing at 800 K for 90 min, both primary θ′ and δ′ were dissolved in solid solution. Aging at 438 K for 60 h led to the formation of two kinds of precipitates (needle-like T1—Al2CuLi and spherical δ′ in two sizes), which acted as the main strengthening phases. The average values of ultimate tensile strength and yield strength for the anneal-aged plate reached 496 MPa and 408 MPa, with a total elongation of 3.9%. The anneal-aged plate showed mechanical anisotropy of less than 5%. The tensile fracture morphology indicated a typical intergranular fracture mode.


Metals ◽  
2021 ◽  
Vol 11 (3) ◽  
pp. 456
Author(s):  
Dongsheng Qian ◽  
Chengfei Ma ◽  
Feng Wang

Hot rolling is an essential process for the shape-forming of bearing steel. It plays a significant role in the formation and distribution of flow lines. In this work, the effect of flow lines is investigated by analyzing the microstructure and mechanical anisotropy of hot-rolled bearing steel. It was found that carbides rich with Cr and Mn elements are distributed unevenly along the flow-line direction of the hot-rolled bearing steel. Moreover, the mechanical characterization indicates that ultimate tensile strength and yield strength do not have any significant difference in two directions. Nevertheless, an ultrahigh section shrinkage of 57.51% is obtained in the 0° sample that has parallel flow lines, while 90° sample shows poor section shrinkage. The uneven distributed carbides will affect the direction and speed of crack propagation during tensile deformation. Therefore, the 0° and 90° samples exhibit great difference in plastic property. Meanwhile, after tensile deformation, a delaminated texture is observed in the flow lines, which may be caused by different degrees of deformation of grains due to the uneven distribution of carbides. The results of this work may provide guidance for controlling and optimizing flow lines in the manufacturing of bearing rings.


2013 ◽  
Vol 135 (12) ◽  
Author(s):  
Arnav Sanyal ◽  
Tony M. Keaveny

The biaxial failure behavior of the human trabecular bone, which has potential relevance both for fall and gait loading conditions, is not well understood, particularly for low-density bone, which can display considerable mechanical anisotropy. Addressing this issue, we investigated the biaxial normal strength behavior and the underlying failure mechanisms for human trabecular bone displaying a wide range of bone volume fraction (0.06–0.34) and elastic anisotropy. Micro-computed tomography (CT)-based nonlinear finite element analysis was used to simulate biaxial failure in 15 specimens (5 mm cubes), spanning the complete biaxial normal stress failure space in the axial-transverse plane. The specimens, treated as approximately transversely isotropic, were loaded in the principal material orientation. We found that the biaxial stress yield surface was well characterized by the superposition of two ellipses—one each for yield failure in the longitudinal and transverse loading directions—and the size, shape, and orientation of which depended on bone volume fraction and elastic anisotropy. However, when normalized by the uniaxial tensile and compressive strengths in the longitudinal and transverse directions, all of which depended on bone volume fraction, microarchitecture, and mechanical anisotropy, the resulting normalized biaxial strength behavior was well described by a single pair of (longitudinal and transverse) ellipses, with little interspecimen variation. Taken together, these results indicate that the role of bone volume fraction, microarchitecture, and mechanical anisotropy is mostly accounted for in determining the uniaxial strength behavior and the effect of these parameters on the axial-transverse biaxial normal strength behavior per se is minor.


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