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Curvature of micropores in Al-Cu alloys: An X-ray tomography study

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American Physical Society2020

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Karen Scrivener, Pietro Lura, Zhangli Hu

In this paper, compacts of synthetic calcium silicate hydrate (C-S-H) with 0.8-1.5 calcium-to-silicon ratio (Ca/Si) and 30-80% porosity were prepared by one-direction cold pressing. The Young's modulus and the creep of C-S-H compacts were measured by micro ...

Pergamon-Elsevier Science Ltd2020

Nitrogen-seeded divertor detachment in TCV L-mode plasmas

Basil Duval, Holger Reimerdes, Benoît Labit, Christian Gabriel Theiler, Hugo De Oliveira, Cedric Kar-Wai Tsui, Kevin Henricus Annemarie Verhaegh, Roberto Maurizio

Most of the detachment experiments done to date on the tokamak a configuration variable (TCV), both in standard and alternative divertor geometries, focused on L-mode integrated core density ramps. In view of extending these studies to high-power, high-con ...

2020

Biomedical optical techniques for intracochlear cellular imaging

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Imaging the inner ear microanatomy is of great importance for the assessment of the state of the cells responsible for sound detection. Hearing disorders are mainly due to a malfunction of the cochlea, the bone containing the cells inside the inner ear. Un ...

EPFL2019

Dynamic wetting in pressure-infiltration of ceramic particle preforms by molten metal

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This thesis investigates the interaction between mechanically induced flow of a liquid metal into a porous solid, and kinetic effects at the triple line. The approach is experimental and focuses on metal-ceramic systems for which the literature gives value ...

EPFL2019

Influence of Minor Cr-Additions to the Growth of Columnar Dendrites in Al-Zn Alloys: Influence of Icosahedral Short Range Order in the Liquid

Michel Rappaz, Güven Kurtuldu

The effect of minute Cr additions on dendritic growth directions in Al-20 wt pct Zn alloy has been investigated. As first evidenced by Gonzales and Rappaz (Metall Mater Trans A 37:2797-2806, 2006) Al-Zn alloys exhibit a Dendrite Orientation Transition (DOT ...

SPRINGER2020

Mechanical anisotropy of Opalinus Clay shale: a multiscale approach

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The mechanical properties of Opalinus Clay shale are strongly affected by the mineralogical composition of the layers and by their spatial arrangement at centimetre to decimetre scales. For this reason, accurate laboratory characterization of the mechanica ...

LMS-EPFL2018

Region Of Interest X-Ray Computed Tomography Via Corrected Back Projection

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We present a new method for region of interest (ROI) reconstruction from high-resolution, nontruncated data in parallel-ray X-ray computed tomography (CT). Many of the approaches to ROI CT reconstruction in the literature rely on a costly forward projectio ...

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Interaction of a rotating two-phase flow with the pressure and torque stability of a reversible pump-turbine operating in condenser mode

François Avellan, Elena Vagnoni, Loïc Andolfatto, Pierre Leroy

The operation of a reversible pump-turbine in condenser mode requires to dewater the impeller by closing the guide vanes and injecting compressed air in the draft tube cone to reduce the friction torque on the impeller blades. A water discharge is injected ...

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Strength and fracture of silicon second-phase particles in aluminium casting alloys

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The mechanical behaviour of metallic materials that have a microstructure composed of a brittle phase embedded in a ductile matrix is dictated by a complex interplay of factors such as local phase properties, cohesive properties, geometrical characteristic ...

EPFL2017