Physicists defy conventional wisdom to identify ferroelectric material | EurekAlert! Science News

"If you make a strontium titanate film very thin, all of a sudden it becomes ferroelectric at room temperature," "If you make it thicker, ferroelectricity disappears. That's very strange, as it goes completely counter to all the common knowledge regarding the thickness effect on ferroelectric properties." says Alexei Gruverman, a University of Nebraska-Lincoln physics and astronomy professor who worked on the research.


This incongruent materials ferroelectric behaviour is explainded in their communication cf link below



Physicists defy conventional wisdom to identify ferroelectric material | EurekAlert! Science News

Life Cycle Management-from The Nickel Institute

http://www.nickelinstitute.org/Sustainability/LifeCycleManagement.aspx

Nickel Containing Stainless Steel from The Nickel Institute_Life Cycle Assessment

http://www.nickelinstitute.org/Home/Sustainability/LifeCycleManagement/LifeCycleAssessments/LCAProgresoPier.aspx

Abrasion Resistance Defined

Materials Selection for Resistance to Abrasion_eg. for applications such as Iron Ore Slurry Transportation http://materialsscienceengineeringdefined.blogspot.com/2015/08/materials-selection-for-resistance-to.html

Materials Selection for Resistance to Abrasion_eg. for applications such as Iron Ore Slurry Transportation

An impressive and succinct presentation of materials,mainly special steels for use in ore mineral transportation as slurry often over huge distances.

This most usefull graphical representation of types of materials that can be transported via pipeline, slurries, is given below. On the upper left (LHS) of the diagonal, the materials to be transported are plotted according their Mohr's hardness on a log10 scale (y-axis) against pipeline candidate materials mainly steels, with some ceramic (coatings) classified according to their hardness, both Brinell and Rockwell tests, on the lower right (X-axis)  The inclusion of  soft materials such as general plastics, talc and the more and more in view graphite, (nanoapplics)  provide a strong contrast which highlights the resistance of the steel tube contenders.

A table of contents from his short and to the point publications reads as follows:

     -Typical Mine Applications.
     -Types of Wear.
     -Hardness.
     -Piping Materials.
     -Material Alloying: metallurgy for strength and harndess.
               -Heat treatment (quenching technology) to harden inner surface,
                while maintaining a more ductile exterior surface.
     -Wear Tiles and Inserts: tiles are of course made from materials that are harder and more abrasion        resistant than the base steel piping.
     -Rubber/Poly Lined Pipe.
     -Double Wall Pipes.
     -BiMetallic Pipes. (advantages, but without the disadvantages of the double wall pipes).
     -System Design Considerations:
           Particle size, shape, and hardness, Particle Velocity,

A most instructive read (link to full paper by Robert E. Klemm, P.E. of UltraTech.  )


   

Non-Destuctive Testing-NDT_New way to find tiny flaws in aircraft parts - Info Centre - Research_EU

A new way to find tiny flaws in aircraft parts - Information Centre - Research: "new way to find tiny flaws in aircraft parts" reports collaborated work by the following 5 countries namely:  Belgium  |  France  |  Germany  |  Israel  |  Spain



EU-funded project claims, to have developed the first terahertz scanners for non-destructive testing of aeroplane parts. Outperforming existing technologies, these systems detect small defects on and deep within composite materials - improving safety in the air and helping manufacturers and airline operators optimise maintenance and lower costs.

EU-Research & Innovation.

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MIT Technology Review’s 50 Smartest Companies 2015, from Tesla to Uber | MIT Technology Review

Nice work by MIT researchers and MIT Review team. Great graphics and graphical interactivity via the link to MIT Review's site beneath the picture:

MIT Technology Review’s 50 Smartest Companies 2015, from Tesla to Uber | MIT Technology Review: "50 Smartest Companies 2015"

Cheers.and enjoy the info.
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