Frontiers in Materials Processing, Applications, Research and Technology

1. Front Matter

   Pages i-xix

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2. String-Like Fiber Dust Occurrence in Crush Cutting of Stacked Liner Boards

   • Shigeru Nagasawa, Takuya Oyake, Takashi Kajizuka

   Pages 1-15

3. Phase Transformation of Amorphous Rice Husk Silica

   • A. L. Rivas, Grace Vera, Víctor Palacios, Mauricio Cornejo, Andrés Rigail, Guillermo Solórzano

   Pages 17-26

4. Analysis of Nano/Micro Bimodal SUS316L Powder Behavior

   • Joo Won Oh, Ravi Bollina, Won Sik Lee, Seong Jin Park

   Pages 27-34

5. Tensile Deformation Behavior of Al-rich Ferritic Steels for Advanced Light Water Reactors

   • Ankan Guria, Indrajit Charit, Bojan Petrovic

   Pages 35-45

6. A Study on Precipitation Behavior of A356 Alloy by Ultrasonic Velocity Measurements

   • G. V. S. Murthy

   Pages 47-52

7. Synthesis of Superhard Lightweight Composites and Improvement of Their Properties via Chemical Processing

   • Lembit Kommel, Toomas Tamm, Raido Metsvahi, Kadri Nokkur

   Pages 53-61

8. Structural and Chemical Variations Induced by Thermomechanical Cycling in Shape Memory Ac-tuators

   • Leandru-Gheorghe Bujoreanu, Bogdan Pricop, Nicoleta Monica Lohan, Marius-Gabriel Suru, Bogdan Istrate

   Pages 63-74

9. Thermal Conductivity on Ternary Eutectic Fatty Acid as Phase Change Material (PCM) by Various Treated Exfoliated Graphite Nanoplatelets (xGnP)

   • B. Eanest Jebasingh

   Pages 75-84

10. Elements Diffusion in Brazing Seam of High Volume Fraction SiCp/6063Al Matrix Composites

    • Dongfeng Cheng, Jitai Niu, Zeng Gao, Josip Brnic

    Pages 85-92

11. Functionally Graded Cemented Carbides Elaboration by Imbibition Process—Better Understanding of Liquid Migration and Homogenization Mechanisms for an Improved Process

    • O. Ther, C. Colin, A. Dourfaye

    Pages 93-106

12. Water Analogy Experiment on the Multi-concentration Pouring Process of a 585 Ton Steel Ingot

    • Jinwu Kang, Chi Zhang, Chao Dong, Houfa Shen, Baicheng Liu

    Pages 107-121

13. Ferroelectric (Hf, Zr)O2 Thin Films for High-Density Nonvolatile Memories

    • F. Ambriz-Vargas, R. Thomas, A. Ruediger

    Pages 123-133

14. Advanced System for Nanofabrication and Nanomanipulation Based on Shape Memory Alloy

    • S. von Gratowski, V. Koledov, V. Shavrov, S. Petrenko, A. Irzhak, A. Shelyakov et al.

    Pages 135-154

15. Synthesis of Aluminium–Graphene Nanocomposite Sintered Using Spark Plasma Sintering

    • Vipin Jain, Anil Kumar, Bathula Sivaiah, Ajay Dhar

    Pages 155-164

16. Time-Lapse Correlative 3D Imaging Applied to the Corrosion Study of AZ31 Mg Alloy in a Saline Environment

    • H. M. Krebs, Ali Chirazi, L. Lechner, J. Gelb, X. Zhou, G. E. Thompson et al.

    Pages 165-177

17. Welding and Heat Treatment Behaviour of T23 (2.25Cr-1.6W-V-Nb) Steel Tubes in Power Plant Applications

    • R. Easwaran, G. Vimalan, R. Ravibharath, P. Sundaramoorthy, N. Raju, G. Ravichandran

    Pages 179-190

18. Solar Performance Analysis of ZrOx/ZrC-ZrN/Zr/SS Spectrally Selective Coating Under Extreme Thermal Environment

    • B. Usmani, V. Vijay, R. Chhibber, A. Dixit

    Pages 191-201

19. A Comprehensive Study of Hydrogen Redistribution and Embrittlement Prevention in Ferrous Alloys

    • Daniel Gaude-Fugarolas

    Pages 203-219

20. Advances in Small Specimen Testing Methods for Characterizing Tensile, Creep, and Fracture Properties of Materials

    • M. D. Mathew

    Pages 221-238

This volume comprises the select proceedings of FiMPART 2015. The volume covers advances in major areas of materials research under one umbrella. This volume covers all aspects of materials research, processing, fabrication, structure/property evaluation, applications of ferrous, non-ferrous, ceramic, polymeric materials and composites including biomaterials, materials for energy, fuel cells/hydrogen storage technologies, batteries, super-capacitors, nano-materials for energy and structural applications, aerospace structural metallic materials, bulk metallic glasses and other advanced materials. The book will be useful to researchers, students, and professional working in areas related to materials innovation and applications.

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• FIMPART

• PSG College of Technology, Coimbatore, India

  M. Muruganant

• FEI SAS, Bordeaux, France

  Ali Chirazi

• National Institute of Advanced Studies, Indian Institute of Science Campus, Bangalore, India

  Baldev Raj

M. Muruganant is a Commonwealth fellow and a doctorate from University of Cambridge, UK. Having worked with some of the most prestigious research institutes across the globe, his contributions in the field of structure-property correlation, understanding of the components of high temperature creep strength of ferritic steels have benefitted the scientific community. His contributions have benefitted corporate giants like ABB Sweden, Siemens Westinghouse corporation USA, and ESAB Sweden. Prof. Muruganant has a great passion for research, academia and technology. His contributions have been recognized through various publications in peer-reviewed Journals, invitation for keynote lectures in premier conferences across the globe. His models for structure-property correlation were the first to world to predict properties of steel as required by commercial standards. He has implemented modules through computational methods that has saved several million dollars in steel plants. He is the founder Chairman of the major International Conferences series in Materials like FiMPART (Frontiers in Materials Processing, Applications, Research and Technology) and FiNSTA (Frontiers in Nanoscience, Technology and Applications). He is currently serving as the Ministry of Steel Chair Professor having selected by the Ministry of Steel and Mines, Govt. of India as one of the Chair Professors and contributes from PSG College of Technology a 100 year old institute whose Design data book is used by all engineering fabricators in India and elsewhere. It is worthy to note that he is the youngest Chair Professors in the history of this Chair position - a befitting reward for his sustained and positive contribution to education, research and industries alike. He is also the director of the Steel Academics, Research and Consultancy Center (SARCC). He is an expert consultant selected by Intota experts USA. He is the Editor in Chief of Steel communications.

Ali Chirazi Obtained an MEng in applied physics with specialization in nuclear and atomic physics from University of Brussels in Belgium in 1995, followed by a year-long course in Ergology, at Ergology business school in Brussels, Belgium. He obtained his PhD in Multiscale Computational Materials Science applied to light alloy in the year 2000 from University of Greenwich in London, UK. Conducted a Post doc from 2000 to 2002, at Imperial College materials department in London UK, combining Image-based characterization techniques with multi-physics materials simulation for property predictions, applied to aluminum alloys. He served as Research Scientist at “Institute for Condensed Matter Chemistry of Bordeaux” (ICMCB-CNRS), from 2002 to 2014, where he was responsible for 3D image based characterization techniques. He was the manager of the “Henry Moseley X-Ray Imaging Facility” (HMXIF) in Manchester, UK, from 2014 to 2016, heading research in 4D-Image based techniques combined with computational physics in materials science. He is currently Senior Materials Scientist in the Materials & Structural Analysis division (Formerly FEI) within “ThermoFisher Scientific”, Bordeaux, France, working on multi-modal and multiscale correlative workflows in materials science.

Baldev Raj has rendered yeoman service to the Department of Atomic Energy over a 42-year period until 2011. As Distinguished Scientist and Director, Indira Gandhi Centre of Atomic Research, Kalpakkam, he galvanized a whole community of staff, scientists and engineers for advancing several challenging technologies, especially those related to the fast breeder test reactor (FBTR) and the prototype fast breeder reactor (PFBR). He has nurtured and grown excellent schools in nuclear materials and mechanics, non-destructive evaluation, corrosion, welding, separation sciences & technology and robotics & automation. These schools have delivered science based technological solutions to strategic sectors, industries and have created strong groups in leading educational institutions. His unique accomplishment has been breaking barriers between academia-research and research-industry in order to realize tangible and significant outcomes in high technology domains. Dr. Baldev Raj has played a pioneering role in mastering the technology of complex post-irradiation examination (PIE) to achieve a burn up of 165 GWd/tonne of Pu-rich carbide. Dr.Raj has pioneered application of NDE for basic research using acoustic and electromagnetic techniques in a variety of materials and components. He is also responsible for realising societal applications of NDE in areas related to cultural heritage and medical diagnosis. His widely acclaimed contributions relate to understanding deformation using acoustic and magnetic Barkhausen methods, studies on stability and functional characterization of ferrofluids, corrosion mechanisms and specific sensors for high sensitivity and relevant measurements in a wide spectrum of technologies. His contributions to sodium science, materials development for fast spectrum and fusion reactors, structural mechanics and integrity of high performance components, safety of sodium cooled fast reactors, reprocessing of unique Pu-rich carbide fuel, etc have earned for India a leadership position in these fields in the world. He has used knowledge thus gained to address technology-intensive problems in aerospace and defence. He was elected President of International Committee on NDT in 1992. He is also Past President of The Indian Institution of Metals, Indian Institution of Welding and Indian Society of NDT. He is currently President, International Institute of Welding, President, Indian National Academy of Engineering and President-Research PSG Institutions, Coimbatore. Dr. Baldev Raj is a Fellow of Indian National Science Academy, Indian Academy of Sciences, National Academy of Sciences, India and Indian National Academy of Engineering, The Third World Academy of Sciences, German Academy of Sciences, International Nuclear Energy Academy and Academia NDT, International. He is Hon. Fellow, International Medical Sciences Academy. Author of more than 800 publications in refereed journals & books, 60 books, including special journal volumes, contributions to encyclopedia and handbooks, as well as owner of 21 patents, he has been recognized by way of awards, honours, plenary and keynote talks, editorial positions and assignments in esteemed national and international fora in more than 30 countries. He is editor-in-chief of three series of books. He has been conferred Distinguished Alumnus Award of Indian Institute of Science, Distinguished Materials Scientist Award of Materials Research Society of India, National Metallurgist Award of Ministry of Steel, Government of India and Presidential honour Padma Shri. Above all he has interacted with thousands of scientists and mentored hundreds of children, students, scientists and technologists and has inspired them to carry out scientific and technical activities with a high degree of professionalism and, at the same time, following exemplary ethical practices.

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