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The Journal of Minerals and Materials Characterization and Engineering is an international peer-reviewed journal for the publication of original research in the fields of characterization of the minerals, metals and materials and its applications to the processing of them. Characterization has become the foundation fo…
M. El Ouahabi, L. Daoudi, F. De Vleeschouwer, R. Bindler, N. Fagel, 1 1
This study aims at evaluating the potential suitability of Tetouan and Meknes (central Morocco) clay material as raw materials in various ceramic applications by investigating their textural, chemical, thermal and firing characteristics. Textural properties w…
Maria-Ondina Figueiredo, Teresa Pereira da Silva, João Pedro Veiga, Daniel de Oliveira, Maria João Batista
Rhenium is a very scarce element, occurring in the Earth's crust mainly carried by molybdenite (MoS2). Due to a very low availability comparative to actual industrial demand, rhenium is nowadays one of the most expensive mineral commodities and an increased i…
Jian Li, Pei Liu, Renata Zavadil, Tom Malis, Sami Penttilä
The Canadian Generation-IV supercritical water reactor (SCWR) requires peak cladding surface temperature of 800℃ for a core outlet temperature of 625℃. Materials selection for high temperature fuel cladding is becoming one of the major challenging tasks. Aust…
Arindam Ghosh, Subrata Chatterjee
Aluminium-alumina compacts with varying wt% of alumina were compacted in the pressure range of 115 - 290 MPa. Compacts prepared at 290 MPa pressure, were sintered in an argon atmosphere at 573, 673, 773 and 873 K for 1 hour. The green density, % porosity, % s…
Tanguturi Ravindra Reddy, Krishnan Thyagarajan, Ovidio Almanza Montero, Sanapa Reddy Lakshmi Reddy, Tamio Endo
The bauxite mineral obtained from Araku, Vishakapatnam district of Andhra Pradesh, India is used in the present work. Structural characterization was performed by X-ray diffraction (XRD). The mineral was found to be gibbsite in phase. The transitional metal i…
A. A. Yekinni, J. O. Agunsoye, S. A. Bello, I. O. Awe, S. I. Talabi
The Jominy end quench machine was designed, manufactured and tested. The manganese steel was developed. The as-cast manganese steels were quenched in water at different austenising temperatures and hardenability test was carried out on the samples cut at diff…
Samson Oluropo Adeosun, Ganiyu Ishola Lawal, Oluwashina Philips Gbenebor
The development of synthetic biomaterials for bone fixations has greatly enhanced orthopedic surgery efficiency over the last two decades. With the advancement in medical technology, several materials such as metals, ceramics, polymers and composites have bee…
Olawale Samuel Fatoba, David Ehigie Esezobor, Olaitan Lukman Akanji, Abiodun Joseph Fatoba, Damilola Macgregor, John Etubor
This paper studies the antimicrobial activity of selected engineering materials surfaces at room and chill temperatures. The antimicrobial effects of selected materials surfaces were evaluated by dropping the test pieces into prepared cultures of Bacillus spp…
Sathish S, U. S. Mallik, T. N. Raju
The microstructure, martensitic transformation behavior and shape memory effect of Cu-Zn-Ni shape memory alloy have been studied by X-ray diffraction (XRD), optical microscopy (OM) and differential scanning calorimetry (DSC). The results show that the recryst…
Ezhil Vannan, Paul Vizhian
In this paper, a micro-mechanical model is implemented in software for the prediction of local mechanical properties of discontinuous short fiber reinforced composites. The model, based on the Mori and Tanaka method, shear-lag, computational model, Nielsen-Ch…
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