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: The PHS model presented good performance on predicted mean skin temperatures in MIL and CLM at the two studied environments, however, the skin temperature prediction with light clothing in WMH was weak and the prediction on rectal temperature was protective.

TL;DR: In this article, the relationship between fatigue life and fatigue crack propagation rate in composites is explored with a new cohesive damage model, which assumes that the quasi-static cohesive law that describes tearing is the envelope of the fatigue damage.

TL;DR: In this article, the authors proposed a new technique based on the detection of the amplitude of the second harmonic was described in a previous paper, which is applicable only to homogeneous materials with constant Young modulus.

TL;DR: In this paper, a simple performance indicator for specification grading of asphalt cements for thermal cracking was proposed, namely the loss tangent, defined by the ratio of the viscous over elastic modulus, G"/G', which is able to provide a quantitative measure of the sol and gel nature of asphalt cement.