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This study investigates effect of cold roll prior to inter-critical annealing on microstructure and mechanical properties of ferrite-martensite dual phase steel. Samples were heated to 850oC for 1h followed by oil quench, then the steel sheet were cold rolled by 0%,10%,15% and 20% reduction in thickness, Then an inter-critical annealing(750oC,120min) was performed to generate a ferrite-martensite microstructure. Microstructural study showed that increase in applied Cold roll, leading to increase volume fraction of martensite and decrease in ferrite grain size. Mechanical properties of dual phase steel were tested by Tensile test, impact test and micro-hardness Test. Results shows that... 

This study investigates effect of cold roll prior to inter-critical annealing on microstructure and mechanical properties of ferrite-martensite dual phase steel. Samples were heated to 850oC for 1h followed by oil quench, then the steel sheet were cold rolled by 0%,10%,15% and 20% reduction in thickness, Then an inter-critical annealing(750oC,120min) was performed to generate a ferrite-martensite microstructure. Microstructural study showed that increase in applied Cold roll, leading to increase volume fraction of martensite and decrease in ferrite grain size. Mechanical properties of dual phase steel were tested by Tensile test, impact test and micro-hardness Test. Results shows that... 

8−Pmmn Borophene is a single layer 2D material made or Boron atoms. This material is a Dirac material with anisotropic tilted Dirac cones (Unlike Graphene). In study, We will exploit Group theory and representation theory to investigate the space group of this material namely Pmmn space group. Then representation theory and basis functions of the irreducible representations of space group will be used to find the allowed couplings between electronic and phononic states; hence we will derive the most general hamiltonian of Electron-Phonon coupling allowed by symmetry  

Offshore platforms are of the economic life lines of oil rich countries. These infrastructures are located at severe environmental conditions, their construction and installation involves expense and these justify utilization of these structures with novel auxiliary vibration control device. Two passive vibration control systems have been evaluated in this study aiming to fatigue damage mitigation in offshore steel jacket platforms. Performances of tuned mass damper and friction damper to suppression of wave induced vibrations in fixed offshore platforms have been investigated in this study. Due to the random nature of ocean waves, a fully stochastic analysis method has been used to evaluate... 

Nowadays, a fluidized bed with gas plays an important part in the industry. The design of this kind of reactor requires knowing the interfacial area between two phases and this interfacial area leads to calculate the solid holdup in the bed. Consequently achieving interfacial area between gas and solid in the bed experimentally is so significant. On interfacial area measurement in fluidized bed with gas has been worked, but light transmission technique has been used less. Therefore, in the current research the possibility of using of this technique and its accuracy are investigated. Of course, fluidizing solid in gas phase is so difficult and it encounters problems such as gas improper... 

Polyamides have found great attraction in the wide variety of application due to their desireable and tribological properties and appropriate processability. Due to their low mechanical strength reinforcing of these types of polymers has always been one of the important academic and industrial issues. In order to improve mechanical properties of such polymers, different kinds of reinforcement particles such as titaniom diaoxide, Nano clay, glass fibers (Short or long glass fiber), etc were used. Carbon nano tubes have high thermal and electrical conduction and mechanical properties; they are widely used as a reinforcement particle for polymer matrix. In this study, carbon nano tube and... 

Due to the inherent non-linear nature of the MR damper, an intelligent non-linear neuro-fuzzy control strategy is designed for control of wave-induced vibration of an offshore steel jacket platform equipped with MR dampers. In the proposed control system, a dynamic-feedback neural network is employed to model non-linear dynamic system and the fuzzy logic controller is used to determine the control forces of MR dampers. Required voltages and actual forces of MR dampers are obtained by use of two feedforward neural networks, in which the first neural network and second one act as the inverse and forward dynamics model of the MR dampers, respectively. The most important characteristic of the... 

Nanotechnology inrecent yearshas attractedthe attention of manyscientists and industrialists. Having atiny structure with extraordinary properties of nanoparticlesin the fields of electrical, mechanical and thermal, leading to their use isgrowing and newer application sarebeing found forth eseparticles. One of them Nanodiamond powderiswidely usedin the industryhas found wideapplication. Among these can be used in electrochemistry, chemical coatings, pastesand suspensions, add thepolymer, ceramic and industrial rubber and adhesives,adsorbentsand catalysts, filters and membranes, and finally cancer treat mentnoted. One of these applicationsisinPolymers and Rubber Industry. According to earlier... 

In this work nanocomposite CNT/polysulfone and CNT/polyethersulfone membranes for membrane contactor application in gas separation were fabricated. The two types of CNTs used for chemical and physical separation of H2S from a mixture of CH4 an H2S, had the outer diameter of 20-30nm and 50-100nm. One of the greatest concerns about using membrane contactors for gas separation applications is the wetting of membranes which consequently leads to decrease in separation performance. The aim of this study is to enhance the hydrophobicity of membranes by mixing hydrophobic carbon nanotubes in the polymeric matrix. The effect of factors like type of the polymer, diameter of the carbon nanotube and... 

Since concepts in quantum information theory has recently been applied to characterize states in many-body systems, we survey entanglement of the ground states in the S = 1/2 antiferromagnetic Heisenberg ladder systems and 2D square lattices. The Lancz¨os method for exact diagonalization of quantum spin models are used to find the ground states. Moreover, effect of defect in ladder on entanglement and ground state energy are studied  

In this thesis several methodological aspects of both conventional and novel approaches to probabilistic seismic hazard assessment are discussed here along with subjects more strictly pertinent to structural and geotechnical engineering. This work, however, has a unique, ultimate goal: to provide procedures for an effective and practical probabilistic estimation of structural demand of offshore platforms due to seismic ground shaking.In modern multi-level design and rehabilitation procedures, structural performance is in fact quantified by deformation demand levels exceeded with a specified annual frequency of structural life. We refer to this as Probabilistic Seismic Demand Analysis (PSDA).... 

In recent years, it has been interesting to to use nanodiamond (ND) in oreder to improve mechanical and electrical properties. Producing it in very low dimensions, make it more important to treat ND surface proportional to its application. Hence, with knowledge of influence of ND and its functional groups on curing process, in present research,carboxylic acid and amine were settled on its surface and in addition to untreated ND, they were dispersed in DGEBA epoxy as a reinforcement. Afterward, by adding triethylenetetramine kinetic cure of nanocomposites were investigated. For this purpose, conversion was determined using heat flow of reaction and then activation energy was calculated.... 

In this study, low carbon steels were joined with TLP bonding method; using a Fe based interlayer. Transient Liquid Phase bonding is a diffusional process in which as tempreture rises a melting point depressant element difuses in to the base metal and as a result the interlayer will isothermally solidify. Due to the fact that Ferrite grain size can effect the amount of diffusion which is taking place, in this study the effect of this variable on the isothermal solidification time was investigated using steels with different initial grain sizes. Microstructural studies indicated that as the mean grain size increases the time needed for the isothermal solidification to complete increases.... 

Disorders with creating the localized states, which are the states with limited spatial distribution, cause carriers of these states become limited to small part of space and cannot participate in the transport. If energy of these states is near the Fermi energy, the Anderson metal-insulator phase transition occurs. In this thesis,we studied type of disorders and determining their Hamiltonian and by studying definition of localization from different aspects, we attained a better explanation of disorders effects on materials. With studying the localization scaling theory, we ex-amined conditions of localization in different dimensions. Then for determining the green function and therefor the... 

There are different types of sensors for measuring the concentration of gases that usually have high prices because of their complicated method of production. We can produce much cheaper sensors in special conditions by using polymer membranes. Different gases can be separated by using appropriate polymer membranes and the difference between diffusion rate of these gases is the basis of the separation method and gases pass through the membrane with different flow rates in the specific entrance pressure. The flow rate of total gas which flows will be different for a binary gaseous mixture at specific temperature and pressure with different concentrations because the flow rate is relative to... 

During the last few years researchers have drawn much attention to HSLA steels because of the application of these steels in many industries. Ferrite-martensite dual phase(DP) steels are one of the most common HSLA steels which are currently used. Combination of these two phases provides good strength along with good ductility. Joining and welding of these steels has always been an important challenge. The aim of this study is to examine applicability of TLP method for joining and dual phase processing of this steels at the same time. Microstructural and mechanical examination of the bonded specimens showed that isothermal solidification occurred during holding for 50 min at the... 

Since oil is the essential foundation of Irans economy and our country has access to deep water, the extraction of oil from the deep water is essential to our country. So far, due to the possibility of oil exploration in the shallow water of the Persian Gulf, need to invest in deepwater oil industry has not been one of the priorities. However, it seems that in the near future we will need to invest in deepwater. Among subsea structures which we need to use to extract the oil in deepwater, we can mention wellhead manifolds that are used to expand the oil field, optimisation of pipeline length, gathering and distribution of production and injection of water or gas into the wells. In some cases... 

In this study, the effect of the Cu interlayer thickness was studied on St52 steel. Specimens with different thickness of the interlayer, were subjected to 1150 °C at different times. Isothermal solidification was completed for the thickness of the 50 μm, 30 μm, and 10 μm in 30, 25 and 20 minutes. Afterwards, homogenizing and dual-phase heat treatment were used for 75 minutes at 730°C. Optical microscopy and SEM were used to analyze the microstructure of the joints. Mechanical properties of the joints, including micro hardness of different parts of the joint and also shear strength of the joint zone were studied. The results show that after homogenizing treatment, microstructure and harness... 

Preparation of binary polyamide 6 (PA6) / carbon nano tube (CNT) and ternary PA6 / EPR-g-MA / CNT has been carried out using melt mixing. Four PA6s were selected with different viscosities (and molecular weights) and molecular structures (linear or branched). Effect of CNT content (up to 2 wt%) and mechanical mixing conditions (rotor speed, temperature and time of mixing) have been investigated. Ethylene- propylene rubber grafted maleic anhydride (EPR-g-MA) was selected at 20 wt% as toughening agent for ternary nanocomposites and mixing sequence of PA6 , EPR-g-MA and CNT has been investigated. Morphological observations showed that dispersion of CNT is done by erosion mechanism at low melt... 

Stainless steels have many applications in different industries. Therefore, it was always a main concern to find an appropriate joining method for using these materials in complex structures. In the present investigation, AISI 304 stainless steel was successfully joined by transient liquid phase (TLP) bonding, using a MBF-30 interlayer. The joining process was carried out at 1150 ℃ temperature and for different bonding times. Also joints with complete isothermal solidification were homogenized at 950 ℃ for different holding times. Microstructure and compositional changes of the joints were studied using optical microscopy (OM), scanning electron microscopy (SEM) and energy dispersive...