Publications associées à Stress-Strain Predictions of Semisolid Al-Mg-Mn Alloys During Direct Chill Casting: Effects of Microstructure and Process Variables

Bringing casting to microfabrication: processing and deformation of microcastings

This work extends the range of pathways for the production of metallic microcomponents by downscaling metal casting. This is accomplished by using either of two different molding techniques, namely femtosecond laser micromachining or lithographic silicon m ...

EPFL2023

A systemic study for enhanced waste heat recovery and renewable energy integration towards decarbonizing the aluminium industry

François Maréchal, Daniel Alexander Florez Orrego, Réginald Germanier

The aluminium remelting industry relies on natural gas to transform recycled aluminium into aluminium feedstock, entailing significant atmospheric emissions. Hydric resources are also affected as they are used as sinks of waste heat from the casting proces ...

2023

Photocured Nanocellulose Composites: Recent Advances

Yves Leterrier, Aigoul Schreier, Mohammed Arif Poothanari, Julien Bras

This perspective gives an overview of recent progress in thefield of photocured polymer composites based on variousforms of nanocelluloses, with a focus on cellulose nanofibrils. The manufacturing processes and performances of these nanocellulosecomposites ...

AMER CHEMICAL SOC2022

Processability, microstructure and precipitation of a Zr-modified 2618 aluminium alloy fabricated by laser powder bed fusion

Christian Leinenbach, Xavier Maeder

Additive manufacturing offers the opportunity to produce complex geometries from novel alloys with improved properties. Adapting conventional alloys to the process-specific properties can facilitate rapid implementation of these materials in industrial pra ...

2022

Multiscale microshaping of functionally graded polymer-derived SiCN ceramics

Lorenz Hagelüken

Polymer-derived ceramics (PDCs) exhibit excellent properties and are compatible with many shaping techniques due to the liquid character of the preceramic polymers (PCPs). Furthermore, their properties are adjustable by modifying the precursor composition ...

EPFL2022

Weakening effect of various pore fluids on the tensile strength of granite

Guanyi Lu

Laboratory three-point bending experiments are carried out to evaluate the effect of various fluids on the tensile strength of granite. The granite specimens were tested under both dry and saturated conditions. The fluids used to saturate the granite inclu ...

SPRINGER HEIDELBERG2022

The influence of casting position and disturbance induced by reinforcement on the structural concrete strength

Aurelio Muttoni, Miguel Fernández Ruiz, Francesco Rafael Alberto Moccia

It is well known that control specimens used to assess the concrete strength of new structures have different casting and curing conditions than those of actual structures. Notably, after pouring of the concrete and before its hardening, a number of phenom ...

ERNST & SOHN2021

A Contribution to the Design of Textile Reinforced Concrete Structures

Patrick Lorenzo Valeri

The reduction of green-house gas emissions is one of the global challenges that our society is facing and the production of cement plays a major role because concrete is the most used material worldwide. For every 1000 kg of cement produced, 900 kg of CO2, ...

EPFL2020

Template-assisted electrodeposition of nickel and nickel copper 3D microcomponents

Patrik Schürch

New types of metamaterials and architectured material require metallic materials with precise structural design in the microscale. However, additivemanufacturing of metallic structures in themicroscale has proven difficult, as the demand for the material q ...

EPFL2020

Basic creep and autogenous shrinkage of Limestone Calcined Clay Cement (LC3)

Julien Ston

The use of supplementary cementitious materials (SCM) to lower the clinker factor of cements is now commonplace, for it benefits performance, economics and ecology. This thesis focuses on ternary blends of limestone and calcined kaolinitic clays, two very ...

EPFL2019

Abnormal Grain Growth in AlScN Thin Films Induced by Complexion Formation at Crystallite Interfaces

Paul Muralt, Thomas La Grange, Silviu Cosmin Sandu, Stefan Mertin, Ramin Matloub Aghdam, Mohammad Fazel Parsapour Kolour, Vladimir Pashchenko

Sputter deposited Al(1-x)ScxN thin films with a Sc content from x = 0 to 43 at% are investigated by electron microscopy in order to study and explain the formation and growth of abnormally oriented grains (AOG). It is found that the latter did not nucleate ...

Wiley-VCH Verlag2019

Effect of laser rescanning on the grain microstructure of a selective laser melted Al-Mg-Zr alloy

Christian Leinenbach

The microstructures of alloys created via Additive Manufacturing (AM) can vary substantially from those present in cast or wrought products, due to the very rapid solidification associated with AM. While numerous studies have investigated the process-micro ...

2018

In-situ strength of individual silicon particles within an aluminium casting alloy

Andreas Mortensen, Martin Guillermo Mueller, Goran Zagar

Measurements of local strength are performed in-situ on individual silicon particles that constitute the second phase of aluminium alloy A356. Particles are shaped using Focused Ion Beam (FIB) milling such that, upon the application of a compressive force ...

2018

Helium effects on irradiation assisted stress corrosion cracking susceptibility of 316L austenitic stainless steel

Ignasi Villacampa Roses

The formation and growth of cracks by irradiation assisted stress corrosion cracking (IASCC) in light water reactor internals is a critical issue for a safe long-term operation of nuclear power plants. The IASCC susceptibility at relatively low dose is dom ...

EPFL2018

Periodic cellular aluminum structures for space applications : from casting to additive manufacturing

Florian Thibaut Gallien

Mass is one of the crucial parameters for hardware that has to be placed in Earth orbit. Due to its harsh environment, a material with highest specific properties is desired to achieve space missions. The rise and development of new technologies, such as a ...

EPFL2018

Competition between intragranular and intergranular deformation mechanisms in ODS ferritic steels during hot deformation at high strain rate

Roland Logé

Oxide Dispersed Strengthened (ODS) ferritic stainless steels present well-known fine grains microstructures where dislocation movement is hindered by a dense precipitation of nano-oxides particles. Previous research, on the thermomechanical behavior at hig ...

Springer Verlag2017

Effect of recrystallization on hot deformation mechanism of TA15 titanium alloy under uniaxial tension and biaxial gas bulging conditions

Ke Huang, Gang Liu

To investigate the effect of recrystallization on hot deformation mechanism of TA15 titanium alloy, rolled sheet and laser-welded tubes before and after recrystallization annealing were tested by uniaxial tensile tests and biaxial gas bulging respectively. ...

Elsevier2017

The flow stress evolution and grain refinement mechanisms during hot deformation of Al-Mg alloy

Roland Logé, Ke Huang

In this study, the hot deformation behavior of an Al-1% Mg alloy with very coarse initial grain size was investigated in terms of flow stress evolution and grain refinement mechanism. The large grain size was employed to study the traditional continuous dy ...

2017

Investigation of polycrystalline ZnO film growth by quantitative TEM orientation mapping

Arthur Brian Aebersold

Polycrystalline chemical vapour deposited ZnO films are commonly used as transparent electrodes for photovoltaic devices. Over the past years much effort has been put into improving their properties. Even though these films are now well optimised for speci ...

EPFL2017

Controlling grain structure and texture in Al-Mn from the competition between precipitation and recrystallization

Roland Logé, Ke Huang

The recrystallization behaviour of Al-Mn alloys (AA3xxx series alloys) is affected by randomly distributed dispersoids present before annealing, by dispersoids precipitated at grain/subgrain boundaries before the onset of recrystallization, and by disperso ...

Elsevier2017