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As for most of the topics in the field of solidification, Mert Flemings has always pioneered new ideas. While much of the understanding of hot tearing formation was already known about 30 years ago, he devised with Metz an interesting apparatus for studyin ...
In many casting processes, some stages, such as the starting phase in the direct chill casting of aluminium alloys, are particularly critical because of the propensity of some alloys to develop either hot tears which initiate at non zero liquid fraction, o ...
The tolerances of semi-continuously cast products of aluminium alloys are very critical if the scalping of the ingot faces is to be minimised before rolling. In the steady state regime of casting, the dimensions of the section of the solidified ingot are l ...
The deformation-induced macrosegregation in continuous casting of steel has been simulated using a finite-volume scheme. For that purpose, a two-dimensional heat-flow computation was first performed in a Eulerian reference frame attached to the mold, assum ...
Two Nb3Sn cable-in-conduit conductors have been manufactured with identical non-Cu cross sections and the stabilizer either included in the Nb3Sn composite or partly segregated as copper wires. The two conductors are series connected and wound as a bifilar ...
The fabrication and application of photoplastic scanning force microscopy (SFM) probes has been demonstrated. Simple molding and replication techniques, inexpensive photoplastic material, reusable molds and several layers per probe make it a very attractiv ...
Metal Matrix Composite (MMC) materials provide combinations of properties which are of interest in several applications within the transportation industries. Their use in this industrial sector is, however, highly dependent on the simultaneous satisfaction ...
Hot tear is one of the most serious defect which a casting can suffer. It represents a major limitation to the production of foundry cast parts and to the productivity of continuous casting processes such as the direct chiil casting of aluminium alloys. As ...
We report findings of large metal grains (~150 um) with distinct zoning patterns in Ni, Co, Cr, and Si in CH chondrites which are consistent with a condensation origin from a gas of solar composition. ...
We present here measurements on hexagonal cavities that have areas between 2.0 and 8.6 mu m/sup 2/. The 2D triangular lattice PBG mirrors are etched into a GaAs/AlGaAs waveguide heterostructure with 3 layers of InAs quantum dots at the centre of a 240 nm t ...
