American Society for Testing and Materials

TL;DR: There remains growing interest in magnesium (Mg) and its alloys, as they are the lightest structural metallic materials Mg alloys have the potential to enable design of lighter engineered systems, including positive implications for reduced energy consumption as mentioned in this paper.

TL;DR: This work presents surface roughness power spectra of many surfaces of practical importance, obtained from the surface height profile measured using optical methods and the atomic force microscope, and shows how the power spectrum determines the contact area between two solids.

TL;DR: A wide variety of CaPs are presented, from the individual phases to nano-CaP, biphasic and triphasic CaP formulations, composite CaP coatings and cements, functionally graded materials (FGMs), and antibacterial CaPs.

TL;DR: In this article, the authors use a geometric classification of damage zones into tip-, wall-, and linking-damage zones, based on their location around faults, which can be sub-divided in terms of fault and fracture patterns within the damage zone.

TL;DR: In this article, small wood samples sourced from Cote D'Ivoire in Ivory Coast were burned in a highly controlled laboratory environment, and the shape and mass of samples, available airflow and surrounding thermal environment were carefully regulated.

TL;DR: In this article, a friction stir welding (FSW) of 6061 aluminium alloy butt joint was carried out at each rotation speed of 600, 800, 1000, 1200 r/min for two different travel speeds, 80 and 100 mm/min, at a constant probe depth of 1.85 mm.

TL;DR: In this article, an experimental investigation has been conducted at the University of Liege to study the charring rate of seven tropical and three timber species from temperate countries and two types of test have been used, one on small specimens, the other on a construction element made of one single material.

TL;DR: In this article, the authors used digital image correlation to measure the fracture process zone (FPZ) size and its compression with crack propagation in PG 70-28 mixture at high and low temperatures.