Controlling the length scale and distribution of the ductile phase in metallic glass composites through friction stir processing (open access)

Controlling the length scale and distribution of the ductile phase in metallic glass composites through friction stir processing

This article demonstrates the refinement and uniform distribution of the crystalline dendritic phase by friction stir processing of titanium based in situ ductile-phase reinforced metallic glass composite.
Date: June 24, 2014
Creator: Singh Arora, Harpreet; Mridha, Sanghita; Singh Grewal, Harpeet; Singh, Harpreet; Hofmann, Douglas C. & Mukherjee, Sundeep
System: The UNT Digital Library
Exceptional Friction Mitigation via Subsurface Plastic Shear in Defective Nanocrystalline Ceramics (open access)

Exceptional Friction Mitigation via Subsurface Plastic Shear in Defective Nanocrystalline Ceramics

This article reports that atomic layer deposition {0002}-textured ZnO films, with nanocolumnar grains and defective sub-stoichiometric structure, exhibit nanocrystalline plasticity and exceptionally low sliding friction and wear.
Date: June 13, 2014
Creator: Mohseni, Hamidreza; Mensah, B. A.; Gupta, N.; Srinivasan, S. G. & Scharf, Thomas W.
System: The UNT Digital Library