{"title":"EFFECT OF FRICTION WELDING ON CHARACTERISTICS OF PURE TITANIUM/A5083 ALUMINUM ALLOY JOINT : Report 2:Metallurgical Properties of Joint Interface Region","authors":"A. Fuji, K. Ameyama, T. North, M. Kimura","doi":"10.2472/jsms.44.504appendix_188","DOIUrl":"https://doi.org/10.2472/jsms.44.504appendix_188","url":null,"abstract":"The metallurgical properties of the interface regions of as-welded dissimilar friction joints between pure titanium (Ti) and aluminum-magnesium alloy (A5083) base materials were investigated. Hardness values in the region about 1mm from the joint interface were higher than those in the bulk Ti and A5083 substrates. No transition layer was observed at the joint interface using optical microscopy, X-ray diffraction analysis and scanning electron microscope (SEM) including EDS-analysis. However, transmission electron microscope (TEM) observation of the joint interface region confirmed that intermetallic phases with thickness of 200nm or less were produced during joining. The intermetallic phases were estimated to be Mg2A13, Al3Ti and Ą-Al (Ti2Mg 3Al18) by TEM-EDS analysis. It was concluded that the selection of joining parameters that promotes the formation of thin transition and intermetallic layers produces dissimilar joints with satisfactory mechanical properties.","PeriodicalId":377759,"journal":{"name":"Materials Science Research International","volume":"106 1","pages":"0"},"PeriodicalIF":0.0,"publicationDate":"1995-09-15","publicationTypes":"Journal Article","fieldsOfStudy":null,"isOpenAccess":false,"openAccessPdf":"","citationCount":null,"resultStr":null,"platform":"Semanticscholar","paperid":"131498304","PeriodicalName":null,"FirstCategoryId":null,"ListUrlMain":null,"RegionNum":0,"RegionCategory":"","ArticlePicture":[],"TitleCN":null,"AbstractTextCN":null,"PMCID":"","EPubDate":null,"PubModel":null,"JCR":null,"JCRName":null,"Score":null,"Total":0}
{"title":"Suitable sample area and number of divisions in the estimation of the maximum crack length by extreme value analysis: Evaluation of estimation accuracy independent of distribution forms","authors":"T. Matsumura, M. Ichikawa","doi":"10.2472/JSMS.44.540","DOIUrl":"https://doi.org/10.2472/JSMS.44.540","url":null,"abstract":"In estimating the maximum crack length in a structural component by statistics of extremes, one encounters the problem of how to choose the sample area S (the ratio of the sample area to the whole area) and the number of divisions m. In a previous paper, the present authors showed that the root-mean-square error of the estimated value, √V(X max ) can be approximated by a linear function of log S for the case where individual crack lengths follow an exponential distribution. In the present paper, by conducting a theoretical analysis and Monte Carlo simulation, it is shown that √V(X max )/σ can be approximated by a linear function of log T regardless of the distribution forms of individual crack lengths, where a is the standard deviation of the double exponential distribution which the largest crack length in each elemental area follows, and T(= m/S) is the return period. It is also shown that √V(X max )/σ by Monte Carlo simulation is 1.1 to 1.9 times larger than that calculated by theoretical analysis. Causes for this difference are discussed.","PeriodicalId":377759,"journal":{"name":"Materials Science Research International","volume":"19 1","pages":"0"},"PeriodicalIF":0.0,"publicationDate":"1900-01-01","publicationTypes":"Journal Article","fieldsOfStudy":null,"isOpenAccess":false,"openAccessPdf":"","citationCount":null,"resultStr":null,"platform":"Semanticscholar","paperid":"127213384","PeriodicalName":null,"FirstCategoryId":null,"ListUrlMain":null,"RegionNum":0,"RegionCategory":"","ArticlePicture":[],"TitleCN":null,"AbstractTextCN":null,"PMCID":"","EPubDate":null,"PubModel":null,"JCR":null,"JCRName":null,"Score":null,"Total":0}
{"title":"Creep-rupture lifetime distribution of boron fibers","authors":"K. Goda, J. Hamada","doi":"10.2472/JSMS.45.6APPENDIX_123","DOIUrl":"https://doi.org/10.2472/JSMS.45.6APPENDIX_123","url":null,"abstract":"The purpose of this study is to evaluate the statistical properties of creep-rupture lifetime in boron fibers by using a time-dependent Weibull distribution, from the viewpoint of materials reliability engineering. Axial creep-rupture tests on boron fibers were carried out under several constant loads and constant loading rates in air at 300°C, and the relevant Weibull parameters were estimated from the lifetime and strength data obtained in the above tests. The results showed that the estimated lifetime distribution curves were not in good agreement with the experimental data at other applied loads. The SEM observation for the fracture surfaces indicated that the kind of defect causing the long-term rupture was completely different from that of the short-term rupture. Therefore, a mixed time-dependent Weibull distribution based on a mixed distribution model was proposed for evaluating the scatter of the creep-rupture lifetime data. It was proved that, finally, the distribution proposed here was suitably applicable for predicting the creep-rupture lifetime distribution of boron fibers.","PeriodicalId":377759,"journal":{"name":"Materials Science Research International","volume":"41 1","pages":"0"},"PeriodicalIF":0.0,"publicationDate":"1900-01-01","publicationTypes":"Journal Article","fieldsOfStudy":null,"isOpenAccess":false,"openAccessPdf":"","citationCount":null,"resultStr":null,"platform":"Semanticscholar","paperid":"127035159","PeriodicalName":null,"FirstCategoryId":null,"ListUrlMain":null,"RegionNum":0,"RegionCategory":"","ArticlePicture":[],"TitleCN":null,"AbstractTextCN":null,"PMCID":"","EPubDate":null,"PubModel":null,"JCR":null,"JCRName":null,"Score":null,"Total":0}
{"title":"SIMULATION OF FRACTURING PROCESS OF WOOD BY FINITE ELEMENT METHOD","authors":"H. Yoshihara, M. Ohta","doi":"10.2472/JSMS.45.9APPENDIX_173","DOIUrl":"https://doi.org/10.2472/JSMS.45.9APPENDIX_173","url":null,"abstract":"An existing FEM program for elastic-plastic problems was converted to the one which can be accomodated to the change of stiffness matrix and the release of stress at fractured elements. With this program, the fracturing processes of two testing types of wood (spruce) were simulated; the standard JIS shearing test (JIS Z2114) and the standard JIS bending test (JIS Z2113). The results are summarized as follows.(1) The shearing strength obtained by the calculation was 90.6kgf/cm2. This value agreed with the actual testing data. The fracture initiated and propagated along the grains. This simulated result accorded well with the real fracturing process in the shearing test.(2) The bending strength obtained by the calculation was 1297kgf/cm2, which was larger than the actual value because the finite element mesh was rough and thus the scale factors for yielding were estimated as large values. The fracture initiated at the bottom of the specimen, grew to the neutral axis and turned its direction to the grain. This simulated result accorded well with the real fracturing process in the bending test.","PeriodicalId":377759,"journal":{"name":"Materials Science Research International","volume":"34 1","pages":"0"},"PeriodicalIF":0.0,"publicationDate":"1900-01-01","publicationTypes":"Journal Article","fieldsOfStudy":null,"isOpenAccess":false,"openAccessPdf":"","citationCount":null,"resultStr":null,"platform":"Semanticscholar","paperid":"133928102","PeriodicalName":null,"FirstCategoryId":null,"ListUrlMain":null,"RegionNum":0,"RegionCategory":"","ArticlePicture":[],"TitleCN":null,"AbstractTextCN":null,"PMCID":"","EPubDate":null,"PubModel":null,"JCR":null,"JCRName":null,"Score":null,"Total":0}
{"title":"Assessment of Damage Tolerance and Reliability for Ceramics.","authors":"A. Suzuki, H. Baba","doi":"10.2472/JSMS.52.6APPENDIX_160","DOIUrl":"https://doi.org/10.2472/JSMS.52.6APPENDIX_160","url":null,"abstract":"The risk of fracture does exist even in the carefully designed ceramic components under excess stress unexpected in design procedure such as high stresses caused by restraining the deformation at the contact region of the component. To assess the safety and the reliability of ceramics components under such circumstances, it is indispensable to take the damage tolerance of the material into consideration. Ceramics is thought to be perfectly brittle and have no damage tolerance. But, though very little, it has the damage tolerance. The important problems open to us now are to estimate the extent of the damage tolerance of ceramics quantitatively and to clear the relation between the damage tolerance of the material and the reliability of the component. In this paper, we demonstrate the existence of the damage tolerance in the ceramics by tests using specimens of a porous cordierite. The nonlinear stress-strain curve of the brittle material is thought to be a reflection of the damage tolerance of the material and it is shown that the nonlinear stress-strain curve obtained can be simulated by the distributed micro cracks model developed here. The relation between the damage tolerance and the reliability is also discussed through several simulation works. These simulations show that when the damage tolerance of the material is getting larger, the reliability of the component becomes higher. This conclusion is supported by the fracture test results using notched specimens of a porous cordierite where the notch sensitivity is shown to be very small in this material. This means that this material has the high reliability under the stress concentration.","PeriodicalId":377759,"journal":{"name":"Materials Science Research International","volume":"13 1","pages":"0"},"PeriodicalIF":0.0,"publicationDate":"1900-01-01","publicationTypes":"Journal Article","fieldsOfStudy":null,"isOpenAccess":false,"openAccessPdf":"","citationCount":null,"resultStr":null,"platform":"Semanticscholar","paperid":"114248633","PeriodicalName":null,"FirstCategoryId":null,"ListUrlMain":null,"RegionNum":0,"RegionCategory":"","ArticlePicture":[],"TitleCN":null,"AbstractTextCN":null,"PMCID":"","EPubDate":null,"PubModel":null,"JCR":null,"JCRName":null,"Score":null,"Total":0}
{"title":"Stereoscopic fracture surface analysis by SEM using advanced stereo matching","authors":"Jun Jiang, S. Sakai","doi":"10.2472/JSMS.51.3APPENDIX_32","DOIUrl":"https://doi.org/10.2472/JSMS.51.3APPENDIX_32","url":null,"abstract":"Three-dimensional analysis of fracture surface by SEM (Scanning Electron Microscope) is inevitable to clarify the cause of fracture. It is effective to analyze with stereo matching. However, conventional template matching method to measure 3-dimensional profile of fracture surface usually employs fixed template size and has deficiencies such as mismatching and consuming much processing time. Therefore, in this paper, a new stereo matching algorithm is developed, which cannot only save processing time but assure accuracy. In this new template matching method, template size is varied to assure accuracy and lessen mismatching points. In order to shorten processing time greatly, when calculating the correlation coefficient of image template pixels to search the matching templates, all the pixels in templates are not employed, but it is proposed that one pixel is chosen every 2 or several pixels in the same positions of the two templates. In order to investigate the precision and the usefulness of the proposed method, two examples of reconstructing fracture surfaces are successfully shown. It is practically realized to measure three-dimensional profile of fracture surface in personal computer.","PeriodicalId":377759,"journal":{"name":"Materials Science Research International","volume":"44 1","pages":"0"},"PeriodicalIF":0.0,"publicationDate":"1900-01-01","publicationTypes":"Journal Article","fieldsOfStudy":null,"isOpenAccess":false,"openAccessPdf":"","citationCount":null,"resultStr":null,"platform":"Semanticscholar","paperid":"127527988","PeriodicalName":null,"FirstCategoryId":null,"ListUrlMain":null,"RegionNum":0,"RegionCategory":"","ArticlePicture":[],"TitleCN":null,"AbstractTextCN":null,"PMCID":"","EPubDate":null,"PubModel":null,"JCR":null,"JCRName":null,"Score":null,"Total":0}
{"title":"Fatigue Crack Growth Behavior in Silicon Nitride under Constant and Variable Amplitude Load Sequences","authors":"Atsuhiro Koyama, A. Sugeta, Y. Uematsu, M. Jono","doi":"10.2472/jsms.49.6Appendix_116","DOIUrl":"https://doi.org/10.2472/jsms.49.6Appendix_116","url":null,"abstract":"In order to investigate cyclic fatigue crack growth behavior of a gas-pressure-sintered silicon nitride under constant and variable amplitude load sequences, fatigue crack growth tests were carried out using compact type (CT) specimens, The crack length and macroscopic crack closure were measured using an unloading elastic compliance method. Grain interlocking was observed around crack wake in all fatigue test conditions, which implied fatigue crack growth of this material was associated with progressive degradation of the grain interlocking by cyclic loading. The fatigue crack growth rate, da/dn, under constant amplitude loading was controlled not only by the maximum stress intensity factor, K max , but also the stress amplitude, while K max was the most important factor in cyclic fatigue crack growth. The overload and high-level load excursion produced the acceleration of fatigue crack growth and the downward shift of crack closure point under low-level loading. This decrease was thought to result from much severer crash or frictional wear of grain interlocking and the crack closure could explain the acceleration behavior qualitatively.","PeriodicalId":377759,"journal":{"name":"Materials Science Research International","volume":"28 1","pages":"0"},"PeriodicalIF":0.0,"publicationDate":"1900-01-01","publicationTypes":"Journal Article","fieldsOfStudy":null,"isOpenAccess":false,"openAccessPdf":"","citationCount":null,"resultStr":null,"platform":"Semanticscholar","paperid":"129165668","PeriodicalName":null,"FirstCategoryId":null,"ListUrlMain":null,"RegionNum":0,"RegionCategory":"","ArticlePicture":[],"TitleCN":null,"AbstractTextCN":null,"PMCID":"","EPubDate":null,"PubModel":null,"JCR":null,"JCRName":null,"Score":null,"Total":0}
{"title":"Effects of cold working and heat treatment on transformation temperature of Ti-41.7Ni-8.5Cu (at%) shape memory alloy and its probabilistic prediction","authors":"M. Hosogi, N. Okabe, T. Sakuma, S. Miyazaki","doi":"10.2472/jsms.52.6Appendix_167","DOIUrl":"https://doi.org/10.2472/jsms.52.6Appendix_167","url":null,"abstract":"The transformation temperatures of shape memory alloy vary with the composition and processing and manufacturing conditions of the alloy. The purpose of the present study is to clarify the effects of cold working and heat treatment on various transformation temperatures, and to estimate probabilistically the transformation temperatures by means of a model. The shape memory alloy used was Ti-41.7Ni-8.5Cu (at%), and the transformation temperatures were measured by the differential scanning calorimeter method (DSC method). The effects of processing and heat treatment on the transformation temperatures were investigated by changing the cold working ratio (10-40 %) and the heat treatment temperature (623-773 K), respectively. As a result, the transformation temperatures were found to decrease with increasing cold working ratio. The transformation temperatures were also found to increase with increasing heat treatment temperature. Therefore, the transformation temperatures were modeled by considering quantitatively the effects of the cold working ratio and the heat treatment temperature. A probabilistic prediction formula was proposed so that the reliability of the prediction may be estimated quantitatively.","PeriodicalId":377759,"journal":{"name":"Materials Science Research International","volume":"15 1","pages":"0"},"PeriodicalIF":0.0,"publicationDate":"1900-01-01","publicationTypes":"Journal Article","fieldsOfStudy":null,"isOpenAccess":false,"openAccessPdf":"","citationCount":null,"resultStr":null,"platform":"Semanticscholar","paperid":"129642538","PeriodicalName":null,"FirstCategoryId":null,"ListUrlMain":null,"RegionNum":0,"RegionCategory":"","ArticlePicture":[],"TitleCN":null,"AbstractTextCN":null,"PMCID":"","EPubDate":null,"PubModel":null,"JCR":null,"JCRName":null,"Score":null,"Total":0}
{"title":"Quality Evaluation of Molded Epoxy Resin and Particulate Filled Composites by Ultrasonic Technique","authors":"K. Arai, Wen Li, S. Ono, A. Kanetaka, H. Hojo","doi":"10.2472/jsms.50.3Appendix_61","DOIUrl":"https://doi.org/10.2472/jsms.50.3Appendix_61","url":null,"abstract":"Epoxy resin and its particulate filled composites are being used widely in many fields of industry. High quality as well as reliability are especially necessary for electric and electronic products such as heavy generators and IC packages. For quality assurance, therefore, it is important to detect or evaluate the quality of these materials without causing destroying them. The purpose of this study is to establish a non-destructive evaluation method for the quality of cast epoxy resin and its particulate filled composites. This paper describes the results of an investigation made to clarify the relation among structure, physical and mechanical properties and ultrasonic characteristics of these materials by using an ultrasonic pulse reflection technique.","PeriodicalId":377759,"journal":{"name":"Materials Science Research International","volume":"119 1","pages":"0"},"PeriodicalIF":0.0,"publicationDate":"1900-01-01","publicationTypes":"Journal Article","fieldsOfStudy":null,"isOpenAccess":false,"openAccessPdf":"","citationCount":null,"resultStr":null,"platform":"Semanticscholar","paperid":"133216592","PeriodicalName":null,"FirstCategoryId":null,"ListUrlMain":null,"RegionNum":0,"RegionCategory":"","ArticlePicture":[],"TitleCN":null,"AbstractTextCN":null,"PMCID":"","EPubDate":null,"PubModel":null,"JCR":null,"JCRName":null,"Score":null,"Total":0}
{"title":"FATIGUE LIFE DISTRIBUTION AND ITS SIMULATION IN SPHEROIDAL GRAPHITE CAST IRONS","authors":"K. Tokaji, T. Ogawa","doi":"10.2472/JSMS.44.187","DOIUrl":"https://doi.org/10.2472/JSMS.44.187","url":null,"abstract":"Statistical fatigue tests have been carried out using smooth specimens of a spheroidal graphite cast iron (SGI) with ferritic microstructure and the fatigue life distribution was examined. It was found that fatigue cracks initiated from casting defects and thus fatigue life could be regarded as crack growth life. The scatter of fatigue life was primarily attributed to the scatter of the size of casting defects. The prediction of fatigue life was performed using the measured growth characteristics of small fatigue cracks. The results obtained agreed well with the experimental data. From the practical viewpoint, similar prediction was conducted using the growth characteristic of large cracks. When the crack opening stress was assumed to be zero, the results obtained gave longer lives than the experimetal data at high stress, but were coincident with the experimental data at low stress. Furthermore, a Monte Carlo simulation was performed using the measured distribution function of casting defect size and the similar results were obtained. In order to discuss the universality of the proposed prediction and simulation, additional fatigue tests were conducted on two SCI's with pearlitic and bull's eye microstructures, and it was found that the fatigue strength was independent of microstructure. The distribution of casting defect size in pearlitic microstructure was examined, which agreed closely with that in ferritic microstructure. This indicated that if the distribution of the size of casting defects from which cracks initiated was the same in different SCI's, then fatigue strength would be independent of microstructure, and the validity of the prediction and simulation of fatigue life distribution was confirmed.","PeriodicalId":377759,"journal":{"name":"Materials Science Research International","volume":" 8","pages":"0"},"PeriodicalIF":0.0,"publicationDate":"1900-01-01","publicationTypes":"Journal Article","fieldsOfStudy":null,"isOpenAccess":false,"openAccessPdf":"","citationCount":null,"resultStr":null,"platform":"Semanticscholar","paperid":"120829316","PeriodicalName":null,"FirstCategoryId":null,"ListUrlMain":null,"RegionNum":0,"RegionCategory":"","ArticlePicture":[],"TitleCN":null,"AbstractTextCN":null,"PMCID":"","EPubDate":null,"PubModel":null,"JCR":null,"JCRName":null,"Score":null,"Total":0}