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 current study concluded that the new isolate A. platensis NIOF17/003 is a promising strain for double sustainable use in biodiesel production and aquaculture feed and applying algal-free lipid (FL) as biodiesel byproduct in the production of rotifer revealed that a 0.6 g L−1 FL significantly increased the rotifer population females carrying eggs, confirming that FL can be used efficiently for B. plicatilis production.

TL;DR: Experimental results indicate that Cm,0 is dramatically dependent on AH, increased by 10 and 2 times for formaldehyde and hexaldehyde when AH rising from 4.6–19.6 g/m3 at 25 °C, and a correlation characterizing the association of emission rate and AH is derived.

TL;DR: In this paper, an experimental study on fatigue fracture performance of rail steel which is used in Iran railway is presented, for this purpose, the fatigue, fracture toughness and fatigue is analyzed.

TL;DR: In this article, a modified concrete rheometer (MCR) was used to measure yield torque directly at different low rotational speeds (above 0.003 rev/s).