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Trempe (métallurgie)

Publications associées (28)

Plasmoid drift and first wall heat deposition during ITER H-mode dual-SPIs in JOREK simulations

Mengdi Kong

The heat flux mitigation during the thermal quench (TQ) by the shattered pellet injection (SPI) is one of the major elements of disruption mitigation strategy for ITER. It's efficiency greatly depends on the SPI and the target plasma parameters, and is ult ...

IOP Publishing Ltd2024

Modeling and characterization of the nucleation and growth of carbon nanostructures in physical synthesis

Kevin Rossi

Carbon nanostructures formed through physical synthesis come in a variety of sizes and shapes. With the end goal of rationalizing synthetic pathways of carbon nanostructures as a function of tunable parameters in the synthesis, we investigate how the initi ...

ELSEVIER2023

Micro-addition of Fe in highly alloyed Cu-Ti alloys to improve both formability and strength

Roland Logé, Cyril Cayron, Baptiste Thomas Jean Rouxel

Cu-Be alloys provide excellent electrical and mechanical properties, but present serious health hazards during manufacturing. Among alternative alloys, the Cu-Ti system has the highest yield strength; however, Ti cannot be easily solutionized at concentrat ...

ELSEVIER SCI LTD2022

Optical fibre based quench detection in HTS applications using machine learning classifiers

Bertrand Dutoit, Bertrand Dutoit, Nicolo' Riva, Arooj Akbar

A Mach-Zehnder Interferometer (MZI) based optical fibre sensing technique, developed and patented by EPFL, is an efficient and economical way to detect hotspots in High Temperature Superconductor (HTS) applications. Due to the MZI sensitivity being a compo ...

Elsevier2022

Skyrmion Control and Phase Transitions in Cu2OSeO3

Thomas Schönenberger

Magnetic skyrmions are nanometric and non-trivial spin textures with non-zero topological charge. Their robustness against perturbations and the possibility to control them using external stimuli make them ideal candidates for future spintronic application ...

EPFL2022

Giant hardening response in AlMgZn(Cu) alloys

William Curtin, Daniel John Gilles Marchand

This study presents a thermomechanical processing concept which is capable of exploiting the full industrial application potential of recently introduced AlMgZn(Cu) alloys. The beneficial linkage of alloy design and processing allows not only to satisfy th ...

PERGAMON-ELSEVIER SCIENCE LTD2021

Characterization of untransformed ferrite in 10Cr and 12Cr ODS steels

Roland Logé

Two new ferrito-martensitic oxide dispersion strengthened (ODS) steels reinforced with (Y, Ti, O) nanoparticles were elaborated using a high-energy attritor. The milled powder was consolidated by hot extrusion at 1050 degrees C. The two types of ODS steels ...

ELSEVIER SCI LTD2021

The effect of stress triaxiality on the phase transformation in transformation induced plasticity steels: Experimental investigation and modelling the transformation kinetics

Helena Van Swygenhoven, Nicola Casati

In situ multiaxial loading during neutron diffraction tests were undertaken on a low-alloyed Quenched and Partitioning (Q&P) Transformation Induced Plasticity (TRIP) Bainitic Ferrite (TBF) steel with dispersed austenite particles. The effect of stress tria ...

2021

T-cs degradation of ITER TF samples due to fast current discharges

Pierluigi Bruzzone, Boris Stepanov, Kamil Sedlák

Direct current tests performed in the past on the conductor samples of the toroidal field (TF) ITER coils revealed degradation of current sharing temperature, T-cs. The degradation progresses with repetitive electromagnetic loading, and also with thermal c ...

IOP Publishing Ltd2021

Deep Boltzmann Machines: Rigorous Results at Arbitrary Depth

Emanuele Mingione, Diego Alberici

A class of deep Boltzmann machines is considered in the simplified framework of a quenched system with Gaussian noise and independent entries. The quenched pressure of a K-layers spin glass model is studied allowing interactions only among consecutive laye ...

2021

Virgo filaments I. Processing of gas in cosmological filaments around the Virgo cluster

Pascale Jablonka, Gianluca Castignani

It is now well established that galaxies have different morphologies, gas contents, and star formation rates (SFR) in dense environments like galaxy clusters. The impact of environmental density extends to several virial radii, and galaxies appear to be pr ...

EDP SCIENCES S A2021

Effect of cooling conditions on microstructures and mechanical behaviors of reheated low-carbon weld metals

Roland Logé, Cyril Cayron

An investigation was conducted to systematically explore the relationships among microstructure evolution, continuous cooling transformation kinetics, and mechanical properties development in a low-carbon reheated weld metal (0.052C-1.5Mn-0.3Si-0.7Cr-0.8Mo ...

ELSEVIER SCIENCE SA2019

Overcritical Current Resistivity of YBCO-Coated Conductors Through Combination of PCM and Finite-Element Analysis

Bertrand Dutoit, Bertrand Dutoit, Francesco Grilli, Nicolo' Riva

Understanding the electro-thermal behavior of high-temperature superconductor (HTS) materials is a critical aspect for designing efficient and reliable applications. In order to optimize cost and performance, one needs to understand the role played by the ...

IEEE Institute of Electrical and Electronics Engineers2019

Variant selection in martensitic steels

Annick Pauline Baur

The martensitic phase transformation in steel is one of the most famous solid state transformation because of its contribution in the development of the modern industry. This transformation from a face-centered cubic (FCC) high temperature phase, called th ...

EPFL2019

Morphological and Crystallographic Characteristics of alpha Structure in a Low-Carbon Iron-Nickel Alloy

Roland Logé, Cyril Cayron

The features of a (body-centered cubic) structures were investigated in a low-carbon multicomponent alloy from morphological and crystallographic perspectives. In addition to apparent features of granular bainite and lamellar martensite, a morphological si ...

2018

Study of the Hot-Spot Temperature During Quench in the Nonplanar Coils of W7-X

Pierluigi Bruzzone, Kamil Sedlák

The quench protection system of the nonplanar coils of the Wendelstein 7-X stellarator was laid out over 15 years ago. At that time, the assessment of the hot-spot temperature by a basic adiabatic model was done using design values for material and operati ...

IEEE Institute of Electrical and Electronics Engineers2018

Microstructural evolution and mechanical property development with nickel addition in low-carbon weld butt joints

Roland Logé, Cyril Cayron

Four metal powder flux-cored wires with added nickel (Ni) were designed to systematically investigate how Ni influences the microstructure and toughness in low-carbon bainitic weld metals (WMs). The microstructure was safely predicted by utilizing reasonab ...

2018

Study on Bainite/Martensite Transformation in Reheated Weld Metals

Roland Logé, Cyril Cayron

A new combination of laser scanning confocal microscope (LSCM) and electron backscattering diffraction (EBSD) with a field-emission scanning electron microscope (SEM) is utilized to study the mechanism of bainite transformation in reheated low carbon baini ...

TRANS TECH PUBLICATIONS LTD2018

Early Stages of Precipitation In Aluminum Alloys by First-Principles and Machine-Learning Atomistic Simulations

Daniele Giofré

Age hardening induced by the formation of (semi)-coherent precipitate phases is crucial for the processing and final properties of the widely used Al-6000 alloys despite the early stages of precipitation are still far from being fully understood. This cruc ...

EPFL2018

Stress generation during the quenching of large AA2618 forgings: Finite element computations and validation against neutron diﬀraction measurements

Jean-Marie Drezet, Nicolas Paul Henry Chobaut

Solutionising and quenching are key steps in the fabrication of heat treatable aluminium parts such as AA2618 compressor impellers for turbochargers. Quenching not only dictates the mechanical characteristics of the product but also induces residual stress ...

Elsevier2017