Gamification has been widely used in education in recent years. Gamification has been proven to be a useful tool for students, as it motivates them and helps them to learn. The lack of motivation on the part of the students ...

Many of the applications of graphene rely on its uneven stiffness and high thermal conductivity, but the mechanical properties of graphene—and, in general, of all two-dimensional materials—are still not fully understood. ...

Shear cutting is a high-speed forming process where material separation is involved. The nature of the process leads to high strain rates and temperatures on the sheared zone of the material subjected to the operation. In ...

Accurately predicting the performance of lubricated rolling elements is critical for certain key bearing applications. A widely employed simulation technique is quasi-static models, which although computationally efficient ...

Switched Reluctance Machines (SRM) are considered promising rare-earth free candidates for the next generation electrified vehicles. One of the main drawback of this technology is the need of a large DC-link capacitor to ...

In this work we propose a procedure based on finite element simulations to compute a lumped-parameter thermal model of capacitors. The extracted Foster or Cauer network coupled to the electrical model can be useful to ...

Astroloy is a Ni-based superalloy with high-volume fraction of γ′, which gives high temperature properties but reduces its forgeability. Therefore, powder metallurgy manufacturing processes such as Near Net Shape HIPping ...

Many different constitutive models that describe the behaviour of metal powder during hot isostatic processes are found in literature. A quantitative comparison of these material laws shows a huge discrepancy among the ...

The increasing interest on magnesium alloys relies on their biocompatibility, bioabsorbility and especially on their mechanical properties. Due to these characteristics, magnesium alloys are becoming a promising solution ...