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The unique properties of phase change materials (PCMs), such as high latent heat and nearly constant phase change temperature, have made them a suitable option for use in thermal energy storage systems and thermal management systems. However, the low thermal conductivity of these materials has imposed limitations on their widespread use in industries. In this study, for the first time, the effect of injecting a boiling fluid (BF) into the PCM container to enhance heat transfer and accelerate the solidification process has been experimentally investigated. In this regard, paraffin wax and acetone have been selected as the PCM and the BF, and the effects of parameters such as the initial... 

According to the widespread application of shape memory alloys, their study in the presence of cracks has received lots of attention in the last two decades. The phase transformation ahead of the crack tip may change the stress field and the fracture behavior, especially at the nanoscale. Thus, modeling this phenomenon helps to recognize the affecting factors on crack propagation and prediction of material behavior when cracks exist. In the first step of this thesis, a phase field approach for crack propagation was presented, first by considering fracture as phase transformation and then as bond breaking. According to the scaling-up strategy, the developed theory is applicable from the... 

Repair welding is one of the most prevalent processes in repair and maintenance part of all industries. Amongst the issues of welding processes are residual stresses and distortions. Thus prediction of residual stresses and their distribution are important for designing welding procedure specifications. Circumferential butt weld is often used for joining steam and hot water lines in plants. Due to the intense concentration of heat in the welding, the regions near the weld line undergo severe thermal cycles. The thermal cycles cause non-uniform heating and cooling in the material, thus generating inhomogeneous plastic deformation and residual stresses in the weldment. The presence of residual... 

In austenitic stainless steel types 304 and 316, due to the instability of the austenite phase, the martensite phase is formed by plastic deformation below the Md temperature. In this research, the cold rolling of 304L austenitic stainless steel and the transformation of austenite to strain-induced martensite and its effect on mechanical properties, especially wear, were studied. In this way, the samples were rolled in two modes and four passes in each mode. In the first case, the samples were cooled between each pass in water as a cooling liquid, and in the second case, the samples were cooled in each pass without using water and by air. Next, tests such as hardness measurement, uniaxial... 

In this research, aluminum titanate or tialite with the chemical composition of Al2TiO5 was synthesized as nanostructured form using the sol-gel method with the aim to serve as a chemical source for aluminum and titanium elements within the fabrication of in-situ Al2O3-Al3Ti-reinforced aluminum matrix nanocomposites. Since the aforementioned nanocomposite is produced based on the thermal decomposition of tialite, the thermar decomposition of this material in air atmosphere, under applied mechanical strain, and direct contact with the underlying aluminum was comprehensively evaluated. The empirical results showed that as tialite is exposed to aluminium, the reaction starts from low... 

Use of materials with both high strength and good formability in car structure is a serious approach in the automotive industry to reduce weight as well as maintain the security of occupants. Stainless steels such as duplex steels are one of the most attractive candidates. Thus, metallurgical and mechanical behavior during resistance spot is important. The aim of this work is to study the microstructure-property relationships in resistance spot welding of duplex stainless steel. Austenite-ferrite phase balance and weld nugget size are two key factors determining the mechanical properties of these steels. High cooling rate of resistance spot welding can have a significant impact on the... 

Severe plastic deformation (SPD) can refine microstructure of steel and increase its strain energy. Ultra-rapid annealing (URA) influences on the temperature and kinetics of recrystallization and transformation, and causes to improve the mechanical properties of steel. In this research, low-carbon steel with the average grain size of 80 μm was subjected to SPD using 2 passes of constrained groove pressing (CGP) method and its grains size is reduced to 30 μm. Ultra-rapid annealing with the reference heating rate of 200 oC/s was performed on SPDed steel up to subcritical and intercritical temperature ranges. Other heating rates of 75 oC/s to 1800 oC/s were performed for further examinations.... 

Conformal Field Theory provides an efficient method for studying physical problems in critical point. Correlation length becomes converge in this point. It can also be clarified that some curves are observed in geometrical phase transition which are conformal invariant and they can be studied using SLE(k). The first mathematical generalization of SLE(k) while keeping the self-similarity property, leads to SLE(k,p). Conformal field theory and SLE are interrelated and their parameters are interpretable for each other. One usually studies the problem in the upper-half plane. Here we consider the problem using a map like (w=L/π Ln z) between the upper-half plane and a special region (e.g. a...