http://scitation.aip.org/ J. Eng. Mater. Technol.: All Topics http://link.aip.org/link/doi/10.1115/1.4003107 Weng-Sing Hwang, Tian-I Wu, and Wen-Chung Sung<br/> The effects of postrolling heat treatment on the mechanical property and microstructure of 1050 aluminum alloy and 304 stainless steel (SS) clad metals were investigated. Clad metals were made by cold rolling after surface treatments of both sheets followed by heat treatment at 500 degrees C for va ... [J. Eng. Mater. Technol. 134, 014501 (2011)] published Thu Dec 8, 2011. http://link.aip.org/link/doi/10.1115/1.4005349 Hari P. Konka, M. A. Wahab, and K. Lian<br/> The smart sandwich structures have been widely used in the aerospace, automobile, marine, and civil engineering applications. A typical smart sandwich structure is usually comprised of two stiff face skins separated by a thick core with variety of embedded sensors to monitor the performance of the s ... [J. Eng. Mater. Technol. 134, 011010 (2011)] published Thu Dec 8, 2011. http://link.aip.org/link/doi/10.1115/1.4005348 Takahiro Namazu, Yuji Nagai, Nobuyuki Naka, Nozomu Araki, and Shozo Inoue<br/> In this article, the design and development of a biaxial tensile test device and its specimen are described. The device, which was designed for evaluating the mechanical characteristics of a thin film specimen under in-plane uniaxial and biaxial tensile stress states, consists of four sets of a piez ... [J. Eng. Mater. Technol. 134, 011009 (2011)] published Thu Dec 8, 2011. http://link.aip.org/link/doi/10.1115/1.4005347 R. Ansari and H. Rouhi<br/> In the current work, the vibration characteristics of single-walled carbon nanotubes (SWCNTs) under different boundary conditions are investigated. A nonlocal elastic shell model is utilized, which accounts for the small scale effects and encompasses its classical continuum counterpart as a particul ... [J. Eng. Mater. Technol. 134, 011008 (2011)] published Thu Dec 8, 2011. http://link.aip.org/link/doi/10.1115/1.4005266 Jianfeng Jin and Hanchen Huang<br/> This paper reports an anomaly in the yield strength of dislocation interacting with stacking fault tetrahedra (SFT) in Cu, reveals atomic mechanisms that are responsible for the anomaly, and further shows the thermodynamic driving force for the atomic mechanisms to prevail. Instead of monotonically ... [J. Eng. Mater. Technol. 134, 011007 (2011)] published Thu Dec 8, 2011. http://link.aip.org/link/doi/10.1115/1.4005267 Mahmood M. Shokrieh and Saeed Akbari R.<br/> This paper investigates the effect of shear stresses on the determination of residual stresses in isotropic and orthotropic materials by the slitting method. A great deal of research effort is focused on the estimation of the residual stress component normal to the slit face using strain data measur ... [J. Eng. Mater. Technol. 134, 011006 (2011)] published Tue Dec 6, 2011. http://link.aip.org/link/doi/10.1115/1.4005268 Maen Alkhader and Laurence Bodelot<br/> High-strength low alloy steels (HSLA) have been designed to replace high-yield (HY) strength steels in naval applications involving impact loading as the latter, which contain more carbon, require complicated welding processes. The critical role of HSLA-100 steel requires achieving an accurate under ... [J. Eng. Mater. Technol. 134, 011005 (2011)] published Tue Dec 6, 2011. http://link.aip.org/link/doi/10.1115/1.4005269 C. D. Hopkins, P. J. Wolcott, M. J. Dapino, A. G. Truog, S. S. Babu, and S. A. Fernandez<br/> Ultrasonic additive manufacturing (UAM) has proven useful in the solid-state, low tempe'rature fabrication of layered solid metal structures. It is necessary to optimize the various process variables that affect the quality of bonding between layers through investigation of the mechanical strength o ... [J. Eng. Mater. Technol. 134, 011004 (2011)] published Tue Dec 6, 2011. http://link.aip.org/link/doi/10.1115/1.4004829 Ribeka Takahashi, Dikshya Prasai, Brent L. Adams, and Christopher A. Mattson<br/> A method is presented for adapting the classical Bishop-Hill model to the requirements of elastic/yield-limited design in metals of arbitrary crystallographic texture. The proposed Hybrid Bishop-Hill (HBH) model, which will be applied to ductile FCC metals, retains the stress corners of the polyhedr ... [J. Eng. Mater. Technol. 134, 011003 (2011)] published Tue Dec 6, 2011. http://link.aip.org/link/doi/10.1115/1.4004488 Jaehyung Ju, Joshua D. Summers, John Ziegert, and George Fadel<br/> The low in-plane modulus of honeycombs may be used for compliant structures with a high elastic limit while maintaining a required modulus. Numerical and finite element (FE) studies for a functional design of honeycombs having a high shear strength, (tau*) and a high shear yield strain, (gamma*) are ... [J. Eng. Mater. Technol. 134, 011002 (2011)] published Tue Dec 6, 2011. http://link.aip.org/link/doi/10.1115/1.4004069 Khaled J. Al-Fadhalah<br/> The effect of texture on grain boundary character distribution (GBCD) in thermomechanically processed oxygen-free high-conductivity copper has been investigated. Copper samples were cold rolled to a reduction in thickness of 50% and then annealed for 60 min in the range of 400600 degrees C. GBCD and ... [J. Eng. Mater. Technol. 134, 011001 (2011)] published Tue Dec 6, 2011. http://link.aip.org/link/doi/10.1115/1.4005417 Dongsheng Li, Xin Sun, and Mohammed A. Khaleel<br/> A microstructure-based finite element analysis model was developed to predict the effective elastic property of cellulose nanowhisker reinforced all-cellulose composite. Analysis was based on the microstructure synthesized with assumption on volume fraction, size, and orientation distribution of cel ... [J. Eng. Mater. Technol. 134, 010911 (2011)] published Wed Dec 21, 2011. http://link.aip.org/link/doi/10.1115/1.4005411 J. L. Halary, J. Jarray, M. Fatnassi, and F. Ben Cheikh Larbi<br/> After extensive studies starting in the 1970s in relation to miscibility and piezoelectric properties, the blends of poly(vinylidene fluoride) (PVDF) and poly(methyl methacrylate) (PMMA) have been revisited with the aim of assessing their mechanical behavior. Depending on the amount of PVDF, either ... [J. Eng. Mater. Technol. 134, 010910 (2011)] published Wed Dec 21, 2011. http://link.aip.org/link/doi/10.1115/1.4005405 Venkateswaran Perumal, Sivakumar Palanivelu, Siba Prasad Mookherjee, and Ajit Kumar Jindal<br/> The present paper investigates the microstructure and mechanical properties' aspects of AISI 4140 steel front axle beams developed by roll and hot-die forging processes. Microstructure of the processed beams exhibited tempered martensite, and nonmartensitic products, such as retained austenite and f ... [J. Eng. Mater. Technol. 134, 010909 (2011)] published Wed Dec 21, 2011. http://link.aip.org/link/doi/10.1115/1.4005412 Stephen A. Young, Indraneel Sen, and Dayakar Penumadu<br/> Electrospun polymer nanofibers are attractive due to their unique volume-to-surface area, chemical, electrical, and optical properties. Department of Homeland security has interest in applications with polymeric scintillation detectors that directly discriminate between neutron and gamma radiations ... [J. Eng. Mater. Technol. 134, 010908 (2011)] published Mon Dec 19, 2011. http://link.aip.org/link/doi/10.1115/1.4005406 Mehran Tehrani, Marwan Al-Haik, Hamid Garmestani, and Dongsheng Li<br/> In this study, the effect of moderate magnetic fields on the microstructure of a structural epoxy system was investigated. The changes in the microstructure have been quantitatively investigated using wide angle X-ray diffraction (WAXD) and pole figure analysis. The mechanical properties (modulus, h ... [J. Eng. Mater. Technol. 134, 010907 (2011)] published Wed Dec 14, 2011. http://link.aip.org/link/doi/10.1115/1.4005421 Justin M. Deuerling, J. Scott Vitter, Gabriel L. Converse, and Ryan K. Roeder<br/> Hydroxyapatite (HA) whisker reinforced polyetheretherketone (PEEK) composites have been investigated as bioactive materials for load-bearing orthopedic implants with tailored mechanical properties governed by the volume fraction, morphology, and preferred orientation of the HA whisker reinforcements ... [J. Eng. Mater. Technol. 134, 010906 (2011)] published Mon Dec 12, 2011. http://link.aip.org/link/doi/10.1115/1.4005420 Kui Wang, Rodrigue Matadi Boumbimba, Nadia Bahlouli, Said Ahzi, Rene Muller, and Michel Bouquey<br/> This work aims to investigate the dynamic behavior of polypropylene organoclay nanocomposites. The nanocomposite was obtained by mixing the polypropylene matrix with a masterbatch of polypropylene modified anhydride maleic and montmorillonite organoclay (pp-nanocor). The dynamic behavior was investi ... [J. Eng. Mater. Technol. 134, 010905 (2011)] published Mon Dec 12, 2011. http://link.aip.org/link/doi/10.1115/1.4005419 Bohayra Mortazavi, Julien Bardon, Said Ahzi, Akbar Ghazavizadeh, Yves Remond, and David Ruch<br/> In this study, a hierarchical multiscale homogenization procedure aimed at predicting the effective mechanical properties of silica/epoxy nanocomposites is presented. First, the mechanical properties of the amorphous silica nanoparticles are investigated by means of molecular dynamics (MD) simulatio ... [J. Eng. Mater. Technol. 134, 010904 (2011)] published Mon Dec 12, 2011. http://link.aip.org/link/doi/10.1115/1.4005418 Gregory Mertz, Fatima Hassouna, Valerie Toniazzo, Abdesselam Dahoun, and David Ruch<br/> The effect of coated rutile titanium dioxide (TiO) and a disazopyrazolone dye (azo dye) on the mechanism and the kinetic of photo-oxidation of unvulcanized styrene butadiene rubber (SBR) composites under accelerated UV-visible irradiation (lambda > 290 nm at 35 degrees C) has been investigated usin ... [J. Eng. Mater. Technol. 134, 010903 (2011)] published Mon Dec 12, 2011. http://link.aip.org/link/doi/10.1115/1.4005410 Majid Baniassadi, Akbar Ghazavizadeh, Yves Remond, Said Ahzi, David Ruch, and Hamid Garmestani<br/> In this study, a qualitative equivalence between the electrical percolation threshold and the effective thermal conductivity of composites filled with cylindrical nanofillers has been recognized. The two properties are qualitatively compared on a wide range of aspect ratios, from thin nanoplatelets ... [J. Eng. Mater. Technol. 134, 010902 (2011)] published Mon Dec 12, 2011. http://link.aip.org/link/doi/10.1115/1.4005407 Guihong Han, Tao Jiang, Guanghui Li, Yanfang Huang, and Yuanbo Zhang<br/> Characterization of modified humic substances based binders for iron ore agglomeration was examined by chemical analysis, optical density, Fourier transform infrared spectrum (FTIR), and thermogravimetry and differential scanning calorimetry (TGDSC). Chemical analysis displays the proportion of fulv ... [J. Eng. Mater. Technol. 134, 010901 (2011)] published Mon Dec 12, 2011. http://link.aip.org/link/doi/10.1115/1.4005422 Dongsheng Li, Said Ahzi, and Mohammad Khaleel<br/> Abstract not available. [J. Eng. Mater. Technol. 134, 010301 (2011)] published Mon Dec 12, 2011.