The boiler tubes, steam and gas turbines are commonly affected by severe high-temperature
erosion wear due to impingement of solid particles entrained in the stream of fluid. The …

To reveal the influence of polishing process parameters on the surface quality of sapphire
after double-sided chemical mechanical polishing (CMP), the orthogonal test of sapphire …

In this paper the applicability of the pillar splitting technique for fracture toughness
determination on anomalous behaving bulk fused silica glass is explored. The results are …

Diamond wire sawing (DWS) is the dominant manufacturing process for thin silicon
substrates. The understanding of micromechanical damaging and material removal …

Contrary to the characteristic strengthening of polycrystalline ceramics with a decrease in
grain size, extremely fine nanocrystalline ceramics exhibit softening, increased plasticity and …

The focus of this work is toward an investigation of the mechanical response of a variety of
rocks to indentation loading as a close condition to drilling application. A rock classification …

Over the past decades, constitutive relations have been developed to compute the
mechanical response of silicate glasses at the continuum length scale. They are now …

Ni-P-Ti composite coatings have been prepared by co-depositing Ni-P and nano-Ti particles
which were then annealed. Tensile tests were conducted on standalone coatings to acquire …

A quarter finite element model of 3 mol% yttria stabilized tetragonal zirconia polycrystal (3Y-
TZP) ceramics undergoing Vickers indentation was established to simulate the evolution of …

Micro ultrasonic machining (micro-USM) is an unconventional micromachining technology
that has capability to fabricate high aspect ratio micro-holes, intricate shapes and features …